CoW Swap’s core development team has released a draft proposal that would add six months of additional costs to the protocol to test which model is best suited for long-term adoption.
The core developers of the protocol, which merges other decentralized exchanges (DEX) such as Uniswap and 1inch and offers MEV resistance to give its users the best price, said The aim of the test is to “develop revenue streams that are reliable and sustainable” by testing different reimbursement models, including taking a percentage of the money users save by using CoW Swap versus competitors and charging a fixed amount for each transaction.
Fee revenue will accumulate at the CoW DAO, the proposal explains, and the core team will provide public notice of all current fees while the test is underway. The CoW Swap team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Block.
According to data from The Block, CoW Swap is currently the second most popular DEX aggregator on Ethereum by volume.