Solver competition · CoW Protocol on Ethereum
A third of all Ethereum volume went to one solver in the last 12 days.
78,162 batches84,221 trades$1.57B volume (last 12 days)30 solversto 21:23 UTC
Batches, trades and gas cover the last 13 of the 90 days.
- Rizzolver32.8%
- Sector Finance14.0%
- Dfusion9.9%
- Kipseli9.2%
- Wraxyn8.7%
- Quasi7.2%
- 23 others18.2%
Who is winning
Rizzolver leads with 32.8% of volume, 2.3× Sector Finance’s share.
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Latest 24 auctions
Entered 14, won 1 of the latest 24#15 batches · #15 trades · #23 volumeLatest settlements
Is it changing
Rizzolver has topped daily volume for 7 days in a row, taking over from Dfusion.
Who enters, who wins
Auction records cover the last 12 of the 90 days. On average, 13.2 solvers enter each auction, submitting about 18 competing solutions. Dfusion enters 84% of auctions and wins 39% of those.
Latest 48 auctions
#14,218,481 · 21:23:23 UTC · 18 entered · won by Kipseli + Dfusion + BRRRolver† Filtered out covers the last 12 of the 90 days.
Quotes
Share of quoted trades†In the last 12 days, 75,660 of 78,628 trades were placed with a solver’s quote. CoW had verified 90.8% of those quotes by simulating them. Dfusion gave 31.3% of all those quotes. The solver that gave the quote settled 21.3% of those trades itself.
† Quotes cover the last 12 of the 90 days.
Latest settlements
All solvers · newest firstIn the last 12 days, CoW’s protocol fees totaled $506,407 (3.2 bps of volume) and partner fees $402,594 (2.6 bps).
How efficiently
Stelaxis uses the least gas per trade among solvers with 1,300+ batches: 134K, against a network average of 413K. Across the network, a trade takes 2.05 DEX swaps on average. Transaction cost averages $1.73 per trade.
Trader surplus
Basis points of volumeIn the last 12 days, trades beat the limit prices their users signed by $7,943,003. The 4.0% of trades with limits far from the market account for 25.7% of that. Leave those out and typical trades beat their limits by 38 bps of volume, $78.19 a trade.
† Surplus covers the last 12 of the 90 days.
Methodology
- Batches
- Settlements a solver executed on Ethereum in the window that filled at least one order. One auction can settle as several batches.
- Trades
- Orders filled inside those batches. An order filled in parts counts once per fill.
- Volume
- USD value of filled orders. Each trade counts at the lower of its sell and buy value, priced with the token prices CoW used in that auction and Chainlink’s ETH/USD rate at settlement. With only one side priced, that side counts; with neither, the trade adds nothing.
- Share
- A solver’s portion of all batches, trades or volume in the window.
- Gas per trade
- Gas units used by a solver’s settlements divided by trades filled. Units of gas, not cost. “Lowest gas per trade” considers only solvers with at least 100 batches per day of settlement data in the window, or every solver when none has that many.
- Transaction cost
- What a settlement transaction paid on Ethereum: gas used × gas price, in USD at Chainlink’s ETH/USD rate in its block. A transaction that holds several batches splits its cost evenly between them, as it splits gas. Per trade: a solver’s cost divided by the trades it filled.
- DEX swaps
- Interactions in a settlement other than token approvals and WETH unwraps. Per trade: a solver’s swaps divided by the trades it filled.
- Batch value
- Volume divided by batches. Trades per batch is trades divided by batches.
- Surplus
- The USD value of a trade’s improvement over its user’s signed limit price, valued like Volume. Dune’s formula: value × (bought × limit sell − sold × limit buy) ÷ (bought × limit sell), where bought and sold are the executed amounts (sold without the fee) and the limits come from the settlement’s calldata. Compared in basis points (hundredths of a percent) of volume.
- Unusual surplus
- Surplus above a tenth of the trade’s value, CoW’s own cutoff (Dune query 1368423). It comes from limits set far from the market, such as very wide slippage or stale orders. “Typical surplus” excludes these trades; the unusual share is their portion of a solver’s surplus.
- Quote
- The quote an order was placed with: the best of the solvers’ quotes when the trader asked for a price, as CoW’s order book records it with the solver that gave it. Verified: CoW checked the quote by simulating it. Settled itself: the solver that gave the quote also settled the trade. Counted by trade. These figures say whose price traders signed against, not who earned quote rewards, which CoW pays by a different rule.
- Fees
- Protocol fees are CoW’s: on market orders, half of the improvement over the quote; on limit orders that execute beyond the market price, half of the surplus; either capped at 0.98% of volume; then a volume fee of 2 bps, or 0.3 bps for correlated pairs such as stablecoins. Partner fees are set by the integrator in the order, up to 100 bps, and apply after CoW’s own fees; CoW keeps a quarter as a service fee. Each is charged in the trade’s surplus token, as CoW’s trades API lists it, and valued at the trade’s own exchange rate. Fees follow the orders a solver settles; solvers do not set them.
- Network average
- Gas, transaction cost and DEX swaps per trade across all solvers on Ethereum, weighted by trades. Typical surplus across all solvers on Ethereum, weighted by volume.
- Entered
- Share of the window’s auctions in which the solver submitted at least one solution, even if CoW filtered it out. Only auctions that ended in a settlement count. “Average solver” is the mean Entered share among the table’s solvers that entered at least one auction.
- Win rate
- Share of the auctions a solver entered that it won, alone or with other winners.
- Score
- The value CoW’s protocol computes from each solution’s executed amounts to choose winners: roughly the surplus the solution generates for traders. It is in ETH; the page shows it in USD at Chainlink’s ETH/USD rate when the auction started. Below winner: how much lower a solution scored than the winning one, given only for auctions with a single winner, since in the others a solution competes with only one of the winners.
- Filtered out
- Removed by the fairness filter of CoW’s combinatorial auction (CIP-67). For each token pair traded in one direction, CoW takes the best solution with only that pair’s orders as a reference; a solution that batches several pairs is filtered out when it scores less on any of them than that reference. A filtered-out solution cannot win. A solver’s share: its filtered-out solutions divided by all its solutions.
- Lost by 1% or less
- Of the auctions with one winner that a solver entered and lost with a solution that passed the filter, the share in which its best such solution scored at most 1% below the winning score.
- Leading since
- First day of the current unbroken run in which the same solver alone ranked #1 by daily share of the selected measure.
- Sources
- Settlement events, calldata, receipts and token symbols on Ethereum, the settlement contract’s on-chain solver allow-list, CoW Protocol’s solver-competition API, order book and trades API, CoW’s solver registry and Chainlink’s ETH/USD feed.
- Dune
- Surplus follows Dune’s definition (Spellbook’s cow_protocol_ethereum.trades) with one difference: trades are valued at the lower of their two sides, as Volume is, where Dune takes the higher. Buy-order surplus follows Dune’s formula, which comes out slightly below CoW Explorer’s figure.
- Attribution
- Settlements through CoW’s flash-loan router or Euler’s contracts for CoW’s Atomic Bundles follow the same rule. Both call the settlement contract on a solver’s behalf. Credit goes to the transaction’s recipient if it is a registered or allow-listed solver other than these contracts, else to its sender if it is registered or allow-listed, else to the winner CoW’s solver-competition API names for the transaction; failing that, to the sender.
- Registry
- Status and submission addresses from CoW’s solver registry for Ethereum, plus addresses that settle on Ethereum and are on the settlement contract’s on-chain solver allow-list but are not listed as active for that network. These additional addresses are shown as active; today there are none. A retired address is one the registry marks inactive.
- Freshness
- Updated every 10 minutes. The figures run to block 26,387,178, produced 10 Nov 2026 at 21:23 UTC.
- Windows
- Rolling, ending at the newest block in the data. Longer windows add up daily windows; rates such as Entered and Win rate are taken over all of a window’s auctions together.
- Coverage
- Settlement history goes back 13 days, auction history 12 days, surplus history 12 days and auction details (solutions, quotes and fees) 12 days. Volume, Entered and Win rate require auction data; surplus also requires signed order terms. In longer windows, these figures cover only the days with the required data, as noted on the page.
- Names
- From CoW’s public solver registry. Solvers without a public name are shown by address.