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March 13, 2026Single-day social intelligence recap and verified catalyst posts Β· β Back to $COW Profile Β· Market Rankings
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15 source posts analyzedΒ· 2026-03-13T01:21:30+00:00Statement from CoW Protocol: Earlier today, a trader attempted to swap 50M aEthUSDT for aEthAAVE through Aave's swap interface, which is powered by CoW Protocol. Despite clear warnings that showed the user they would lose nearly all of the value of their transaction, and despite
Β· 2026-03-13T11:27:43+00:00CoW Swap solver routed $50m through a Sushiswap pool with $73k liquidity. received 324 AAVE worth $36k. 99.93% loss. MEV bots extracted $45m in one block. block builder took $34m. Lido earned $1.2m as proposer. if you're moving >$10m through aggregators without TWAP or OTC you
Β· 2026-03-13T12:15:10+00:00Six weeks before a trader lost $50M in a single swap, CoW Protocol deleted the only system that could have caught it. CoW works like an auction. When you swap tokens, "solvers" compete to find you the best price. The idea is simple - competition protects the user. But what
Β· 2026-03-13T07:30:42+00:00. @aave / @CoWSwap situation is easy >User wants to swap $50m >Cowswap solvers show a route >Frontend warns of 99.9% slippage >User confirms anyway This is not Aave or Cowswaps fault, its user error. Itβs not their job to determine if a persons trade makes sense, itβs to present
Β· 2026-03-13T16:28:45+00:00While investigating the $50M swap disaster, I noticed something in Aave's interface code. There's no provider comparison. No "get quotes from both and pick the better one." Just a hardcoded priority: if CoW Protocol supports the pair - use CoW. Always. ParaSwap only gets called
Β· 2026-03-13T08:12:36+00:00It is a core value of @CoWSwap to protect users even if they make massive mistakes. This time, despite already having many layers of protection, that goal failed. There is only one conclusion: keep innovating and add even more layers of protection.
Β· 2026-03-13T13:22:16+00:00My dumb take on arguably the worst on chain trade of all time: My whole professional life I have been working on decentralized products. I like to think of myself as one of the biggest DeFi advocates on the planet. I have used the @aave front end and @CoWSwap hundreds if not
Β· 2026-03-13T10:47:05+00:00In addition to everything else, @CoWSwap orders should be able to specify: "only execute if β₯ N solvers participated." Here just one solver submitted a solution. There was no competitive auction.
Β· 2026-03-13T17:08:08+00:00Just circle this back on the CoWSwap trade
Β· 2026-03-13T15:57:20+00:00Aave. Cowswap. Checkbox. Warning. R****d... Blame is assigned left, right and centre - to the UIs, protocol logic or users themselves. Iβm fully convinced - a big loss of funds can happen today on any DeFi interface. There are plenty of edge cases, there are legitimate
Β· 2026-03-13T07:08:06+00:00The case of todayβs swap with CowSwap will be hard to replicate with LibertyX, since we have implemented the rule: If the output is not as expected by users, the order will fail. Best rates only! If you find us a better rate, we will make our swap have an even better rate
Β· 2026-03-13T17:33:52+00:00To clarify, even if this feature was live, it would NOT have changed the outcome of the incident in question. Its goal was to prevent the protocol from stalling when a solver could not land a transaction onchain. We deleted the PR from our repo because we realized that (1) with
Β· 2026-03-13T02:42:58+00:00MEV Builder ( @titanbuilderxyz ) 74% MEV bot profits 20% ETH staking node bribes ( @LidoFinance ) 3% @aave frontend fees 1% @CoWSwap solver fees 1% There used to be large transfer addresses that used extremely high gas prices, and the mining pool would refund them. This
Β· 2026-03-13T02:57:18+00:00this is the best explanation about the $50M to $36K CoW Protocol bug you will read in this platform great job by @Ehsan1579
Β· 2026-03-13T14:44:07+00:00CoW milked the user harder