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Solvers and Intents with Alex Vinyas: History, Utility and the Agentic Future

Alex Vinyas of CoW Swap discusses the origins of the protocol, how solvers compete and what trading intents make possible.

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Episode topics

The BR Labs guest episode traces CoW Swap's origins within Gnosis and the use of batch auctions to match trading intentions. Alex Vinyas discusses solver competition, BR Capital's investment history with CoW and how intent-based execution can support software acting on a user's instructions.

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Solvers and intent-based execution

An intent specifies the outcome a user wants and the limits an execution must respect. Solvers compete to find a route that satisfies those instructions. The episode explores how this division of responsibilities developed at CoW Swap and why it matters as more financial activity is initiated by software.

Episode 6 introduces intents, solvers and BRRRolver. Episode 11 describes how the trading desk was built. See What I Build for the operating companies and Media for the series.