The core development team behind CoW Swap has unveiled a preliminary proposal aimed at introducing fees to the protocol for a duration of six months. This initiative is designed to assess the most viable long-term adoption strategy.

CoW Swap's core developers, responsible for aggregating various decentralized exchanges (DEX) such as Uniswap and 1inch while offering MEV-resistance to ensure users get the best prices, have articulated their objective for this testing phase. They intend to establish dependable and sustainable revenue streams by experimenting with various fee structures. These may include levying a percentage of the savings users achieve by opting for CoW Swap over rival platforms or implementing a fixed fee for each transaction.

As detailed in the proposal, the fees collected will be directed towards the CoW DAO, and the core team commits to regularly disclosing the current fee structure during the testing phase. At the time of this report, The Block reached out for comment from CoW Swap's team but had not received an immediate response.

Based on data from The Block, CoW Swap presently ranks as the second most widely utilized DEX aggregator on the Ethereum network by trading volume.