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CoW Protocol, a Permissionless Trading Protocol, Received Undisclosed Funding from Greenfield Capital

Cow Protocol

November 4, 2024


Greenfield recently announced a strategic investment in CoW Protocol ($COW), supporting its approach to addressing the growing complexity of decentralized finance (DeFi). As DeFi expands, new developments from platforms like Uniswap V4, Panoptic, and Keyring Network are pushing the ecosystem toward more advanced, specialized financial products. This increasing intricacy demands trade execution solutions, which CoW Protocol aims to provide.


Traditional DeFi aggregators often depend on fixed algorithms to route trades, but CoW Protocol’s CoW Swap platform takes a different path. Leveraging a network of competitive solvers, CoW Swap identifies optimal execution routes across a broad range of liquidity sources. This system is designed to handle the rising complexity within DeFi markets, efficiently adapting as liquidity pools and trading requirements grow more intricate.


CoW Protocol also employs App-Specific Sequencing, collecting trade intents off-chain and settling them in batches. This approach minimizes risks associated with Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) exploits, allowing large trades to clear at a single price per batch and eliminating transaction reordering vulnerabilities.


The new CoW AMM strengthens the CoW Protocol ecosystem by offering an automated market maker that helps reduce MEV-related losses for liquidity providers. By enabling protocols to provide liquidity pools without capital loss to arbitrage, it enhances the efficiency of liquidity management. Through competitive solver bidding, CoW AMM maximizes surplus for providers, ensuring capital preservation within DeFi.


CoW Swap’s growth reflects a loyal user base, with average monthly trading volumes of $2.4 billion, up from $1 billion in late 2023, and daily volumes around $80 million. Holding 63% of the intent-based trading market, CoW Swap surpasses competitors like 1inch Fusion and UniswapX. Its 2024 fee structure has generated 220 ETH ($550,000) monthly, totaling nearly 2,000 ETH in revenue to date.

 

About CoW Protocol


CoW Protocol is a decentralized exchange platform focused on intent-based trading across Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Gnosis Chain. Through CoW Swap, CoW Protocol uses a solver-based trade routing approach for MEV-resistant execution and an automated market maker (AMM) model to minimize arbitrage losses for liquidity providers. CoW Protocol’s innovative structure aims to make DeFi transactions more efficient and secure.

X: @cowswap

About Investor

Greenfield Capital

Greenfield is a venture capital firm focused on advancing blockchain and DeFi innovation, investing in projects that enhance decentralized finance through secure and efficient solutions. By supporting CoW Protocol, Greenfield underscores its commitment to fostering the next phase of DeFi growth. Greenfield’s diverse investment portfolio includes transformative blockchain projects aimed at driving innovation within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Location: Hamburg, Germany


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