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
Aave has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, announced by CoW Protocol. The MCP lets users and AI agents design and execute complex lending strategies on Aave directly through AI assistants. CoW highlights it as a major upgrade for DeFi, enabling seamless AI-driven interaction with Aave's lending markets.
Gate Web3 has integrated CoW Protocol-powered execution into its swap experience. The integration brings solver competition and batch-auction execution directly to Gate DEX users. This allows Gate Web3 traders to benefit from CoW Protocol's MEV-protected trading infrastructure.
Coinbase Tokenized Stocks launched on Base, and CoW Protocol is one of the first DEX aggregators offering them from day one. The tokenized stocks are available only in eligible locations outside the United States. CoW adds these assets to its aggregation across the Base chain.
CIP-87 is live on Snapshot for a vote. The proposal redesigns solver penalty caps, switching from a fixed penalty amount to a relative percentage of trade volume to better balance execution quality and speed. COW holders can vote.
Lido Finance powers the NEST Automated LDO Buyback Mechanism, now live on mainnet, using CoW Protocol for execution. The rule-based, DAO-controlled buybacks run daily in the background with MEV protection.
CoW Protocol is part of the execution stack behind MetaMask Agent Wallet, which is now live for all users. The agent wallet lets AI agents carry out trades through their own wallet, with CoW providing the execution infrastructure.
CoW Protocol now powers limit orders on Jumper Advanced. Jumper's new Advanced mode adds simulated swaps, smart slippage, large order splitting, and limit orders, with CoW handling advanced execution.
CoW Protocol now powers order routing and slippage protection on RHEA's cross-chain DEX. RHEA supports same-chain trades and institutional-grade execution from any EVM asset to tokens whitelisted by NEAR Intents, with trade sizes of $50K–$500K on stablecoins like USDC and USDT, including EURe to Gnosis.
Ondo's USDY is now live on BNB Chain and available for swaps through CoW Protocol. BNB Chain users get a yield-bearing asset with permissionless access and instant minting and redemptions, with CoW Protocol serving as the execution layer.
USDY is also available via 1inch, Ledger, LI.FI, Trust Wallet, and LayerZero.
Aragon's Ownership Token Framework (OTF) added COW to its dashboard. The OTF breaks down COW's contracts, distribution, and value accrual mechanisms so investors can evaluate the token on fundamentals and verify the report themselves.
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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