The CoW DAO released CIP-34 on Snapshot, a proposal that aims to determine whether the CoW DAO should test the new fee model in the next six months. The current proposal has a support rate of 99.99%.
According to the proposal, the CoW protocol fee can only cover the gas cost, and the revenue will mainly come from the excess gas fee. To avoid relying on unintentional and unpredictable revenues, the CoW Protocol plans to develop reliable and sustainable revenue streams. The proposal identifies several fee models that may be implemented during the testing period, including offer improvement fees, transaction surplus fees, volume-based fees, fixed fees, etc.
The core team plans to test different fee percentages, caps, and volume-based tiers during the beta period, while keeping a close eye on user metrics like market share, retention, and more. All fees will be accumulated into the CoW DAO and will bring benefits to the DAO in the ecosystem through future CIP.