CoW Protocol · interactive mechanism simulation

Traders sign off-chain intents into a batch. Competing solvers race to find the best settlement — matching opposite orders peer-to-peer (a "Coincidence of Wants") or routing the rest through external AMM liquidity — then execute atomically at one uniform clearing price per batch, which is why sandwiching inside a batch can't work.
Traders sign intents (off-chain) Batch closing in 3.0s solver competition GPv2Settlement uniform clearing price CoW match 0 matched P2P External AMM 0 routed MEV bot tries to front-run 0 blocked
Orders settled
0
Batches cleared
0
CoW matches (P2P)
0
Solver rewards
0.0 Ξ
Sandwich attempts blocked
0
Parameters — edit me
3.0s
7
30%
4
Controls

Illustrative simulation. Reflects the researched CoW Protocol mechanism (off-chain signed intents, batch auctions with a uniform clearing price, Coincidence-of-Wants peer-to-peer matching, solver competition, atomic settlement via GPv2Settlement) — order counts, timing, and reward sizes are randomized for visualization, not live onchain data. The "sandwich attempt" button shows why front-running fails: there is no ordering to exploit inside a single uniform-price batch. Part of The Onchain Experiment Atlas.