Ongoing technical partnership across developer tooling, user interfaces, and governance infrastructure.
We helped CoW reduce friction across its entire protocol surface—for developers, users, and the DAO—without adding management overhead to the core team.
Context
CoW Protocol is a core piece of DeFi infrastructure, providing MEV protection, programmable orders, and AMMs used by a growing ecosystem of developers, integrators, users, and DAO participants. As the protocol matured, the main challenge shifted from correctness to accessibility and adoption. Powerful infrastructure existed, but using it—or building on top of it—required deep protocol knowledge and specific technical choices.
- •Developers outside the JavaScript ecosystem couldn't easily integrate
- •JS/TS teams were locked into Ethers.js v5
- •Non-technical users couldn't deploy or manage AMMs without touching contracts
- •Governance data was fragmented across multiple tools
Our role
We partnered with CoW on initiatives that were high leverage but hard to delegate—work requiring deep protocol understanding, strong frontend and tooling expertise, and the ability to operate with minimal specification.
"You're proactive. You don't wait for a super complete specification… with you it was easy."
What changed
Over time, CoW's ecosystem became easier to work with—without forcing users or developers into a single stack, workflow, or level of technical expertise.
- ✓Developers can now integrate using the tools and languages they already use
- ✓Frontend teams gained flexibility and reduced technical debt
- ✓Users can deploy and manage AMMs through familiar interfaces
- ✓The DAO has a clearer, more transparent view of governance participation
Areas we took ownership of
Why this partnership works
CoW's core team focuses on shipping protocol and user-facing features. That leaves a long tail of critical technical work—SDKs, migrations, refactors—that is foundational but difficult to prioritize internally.
This partnership works because Bleu operates effectively in that space: taking ownership of ambiguous, high-impact technical work with minimal guidance, while maintaining high code quality and low coordination overhead.
"The team worked super fast, operated on minimal guidance and took instruction super well."
Outcome
By offloading hard-to-delegate technical work without adding management overhead, CoW was able to expand its ecosystem, improve developer and user experience, and strengthen long-term protocol maintainability, while keeping the core team focused on advancing the protocol itself.
If you're dealing with work that's hard to delegate but hard not to do, this is the kind of partnership we build.