CoW Swap
CoW Protocol finds the lowest price for your trade across all exchanges and aggregators, such as Uniswap & 1inch — and protects you from MEV, unlike the others
CoW Protocol finds the lowest price for your trade across all exchanges and aggregators, such as Uniswap & 1inch — and protects you from MEV, unlike the others
CoW DAO publicly voiced support for Blockworks' letter to the SEC regarding its proposed Regulation Crypto Assets framework. The endorsement aligns with the DAO's push for clearer U.S. disclosure standards for crypto issuers.
The letter effort ties into Blockworks' broader Token Transparency work, which CoW has already engaged with through its B2 Token Transparency filing.
CoW Protocol is now under the hood of Hyperdex swaps, CoW Swap announced. Traders state what they want to trade and competing solvers race to settle it — CoW's intent-based, auction-style settlement mechanism is now powering the Hyperdex app's swaps.
CoW Swap announced that its core order guarantees — limit prices hold and orders don't overfill — have been formally verified by Verity (@Veritylab), the Lean 4-based formal verification project from LFG Labs. Unlike audit-style review, Verity produces machine-checked mathematical proofs of smart contract behavior, closing the gap between what CoW claims about its order execution and what can be proven.
CoW Swap framed the result as independent expert confirmation of properties it has long advertised to traders — a step toward provable execution guarantees for its batch-auction settlement.
CoW Swap's teased September 30 launch is here: TWAP orders are now live for every wallet, dropping the previous requirement of a Safe multisig with a custom fallback handler. Any externally owned account (EOA) can now place, edit, and cancel time-weighted average price orders directly on swap.cow.fi across all supported EVM chains.
As part of the rollout, CoW Swap is running a #MooOrMyth myth-busting series, countering the idea that TWAP is only for whales — price impact doesn't scale with trade size, and with no Safe required, anyone can slice a trade into smaller bites over time. The team also highlights four ways to combine TWAP orders with limit orders.
bleu, the CoW DAO core unit behind the tooling, notes that TWAP order discovery on CoW Swap is powered by the Programmatic Orders API it built and open-sourced. The rollout brings the order type professional desks use to limit price impact to everyday traders.
CoW Swap is now live in RIFT, enabling same-chain swaps within the app. The integration routes trades through CoW Protocol's settlement infrastructure, giving RIFT users access to CoW's batch-auction execution and order types directly from their existing interface.
CoW DAO published its September 2026 monthly recap, headlined by TWAP orders opening to every EOA wallet after previously requiring a Safe multisig. It also recaps partial approvals across all order types, Telegram trade notifications, and CoW Protocol now powering Aave position swaps on Plasma, Gate Web3 swaps, and RealityFi rTokens on Bitget Wallet.
September numbers: $3.5B monthly volume across 612,679 trades and 110.2k active wallets, with 16.1% DEX aggregator market share (3rd across all chains). Governance saw two votes:
CoW Protocol has refiled its B2 Token Transparency filing with Blockworks, adding disclosures for POL and offchain income after incorporating feedback on the earlier submission. CoW confirmed the filing now shows "zero gaps" and thanked Blockworks for the review process, with the report live on Blockworks' Token Transparency page.
The B2 filing sits within Blockworks' Token Transparency Framework for mature protocols, which puts token supply, insider vesting, liquidity deals, treasury activity, and offchain financials on the public record for tokenholders and exchanges to verify.
Ondo launched its Intelligent Portfolios on Ethereum and BNB Chain, packing portfolio rebalancing into a single token handled at the smart contract level. All settlement runs through CoW Protocol's trading infrastructure, so users no longer need to manually rebalance across multiple assets.
This gives CoW users access to automated, tokenized portfolio management built on CoW's batch-auction execution.
CoW Swap has rolled out trade notifications delivered through Telegram. By connecting their account, traders get pinged the moment an order fills, partially fills, or expires — no more manually refreshing the orders tab.
Users can enable notifications directly from the CoW Swap interface.
Aave has enabled asset swaps and position swaps, powered by CowSwap, on its Plasma app — a market with $1.6B in total size. Users can now swap any asset, or swap collateral and debt positions, directly from the Aave UI, with execution routed through CowSwap's trading infrastructure.
CoW DAO launched CoW AMM, billed as the first live automated market maker that solves the loss-versus-rebalancing (LVR) problem by capturing and redistributing the MEV that would otherwise go to arbitrageurs, protecting liquidity providers.
The launch of CoW Hooks let users bundle pre- and post-trade DeFi actions into a single intent, transforming CoW Protocol from a swap-intent-matching engine into a generalized intent execution machine.
CoW Protocol closed a roughly $23 million token round from investors including Blockchain Capital, Cherry Ventures, and Ethereal Ventures as the project separated from Gnosis DAO to become its own entity.
A token generation event for the COW token concluded, and the vCOW tokens airdropped to early traders and GNO holders became swappable 1:1 into the new tradable COW token.
Following the popularity of CoW Swap, the protocol rebranded to the Coincidence of Wants (CoW) Protocol, and GNO holders were offered a one-year lock in exchange for vested COW (vCOW) airdrop tokens.
Gnosis introduced GPv2, an intent-based batch-auction design aimed at resisting MEV, alongside the CoW Swap proof-of-concept interface and the Balancer-Gnosis-Protocol integration.
Gnosis announced the launch of Gnosis Protocol, a batch-auction based DEX protocol resulting from two years of research and development that enables ring trades on Ethereum.
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