This is your entry point to CoW Protocol as a developer platform. These are a few resources to get you started and provide some ideas on what has been built in the past, what could be built, and how we would like to see CoW Protocol & CoW Swap evolving into the future.

We also have a 1.5M $COW and 500k $XDAI within the CoW Grants Program in place to support teams growing their projects beyond the hackathon.

🤔 Why build on CoW?

Building on top of CoW Protocol is more than just building a new trading venue, the tech stack offers unbounded flexibility to suit any sort of business needs.

• ERC-1271 orders are extremely flexible and allow a lot of new innovation. Whatever financial product you can think of, can now be developed into custom code and traded on CoW Protocol via smart contracts.
• CoW Protocol modular tech stack allows for quick prototyping any AMM types, such as surplus AMM.
• CoW Protocol is the best tool for DAOs - CoW Swap ERC1271 orders allow a DAO to programmatically trigger big sell orders after a governance process.

👩‍🏫 Learning Materials:

CoW Swap is a decentralized exchange that allows you to swap tokens on Ethereum & Gnosis Chain. It’s powered by CoW Protocol, a unique system of trustless smart contracts.

CoW Protocol doesn’t rely on any central authority to execute your trades. Instead, a series of algorithms known as “solvers” compete amongst themselves for the right to settle your trade. Solvers are developed and maintained by professional 3rd party executors that get rewarded for each trade they execute, so they’re incentivized to always try to find the best price for you. When you win, they win.

📚  Documentation

• General Documentation
• SDK Documentation
• Getting Started with CoW Protocol
• CoW Protocol General Repo
• Smart Contract orders documentation & https://github.com/nlordell/dappcon-2022-smart-orders
• Creating Smart Orders Tutorial