Bancor Launches Arb Fast Lane and Graphene on L2

Carbon DeFi has developed a built-in solver system designed to optimize arbitrage and order execution across decentralized exchanges. **Key Features:** - Addresses the challenge of relying solely on takers to trade against in-the-money strategies - Implements an arbitrage framework that continuously aligns prices and fills orders across chainwide liquidity - Utilizes Marginal Price Optimization, a new framework ~20% faster than previous approaches The solver system aims to create a more efficient arbitrage layer for the maker-focused DEX, which already offers asymmetric liquidity tools for professional market makers. [Read the technical paper](https://arxiv.org/html/2502.08258v1)

**Carbon DeFi's Concentrated Liquidity** enables traders to create custom liquidity positions with unprecedented flexibility. **Key Features:** - Pair any two standard ERC-20 tokens - Define custom price ranges without tick constraints - Set personalized fee tiers and spreads - Edit prices, pause, or modify strategy types without withdrawing funds **Technical Advantages:** - **Native auto-compounding** automatically reinvests earned fees - **Built-in solver system** sources liquidity across the entire blockchain, keeping positions actively trading Unlike traditional DEXs with preset parameters, Carbon DeFi gives users complete control over their liquidity strategies while maintaining continuous market exposure.

Carbon DeFi is licensing its smart contract technology to multiple DeFi projects, allowing them to deploy the platform's orderbook-style functionalities. **Key Features Being Licensed:** - One-directional trades and range orders for scaling - Linked orders for automated buy low, sell high strategies - MEV sandwich attack immunity - Arb Fast Lane solver system for liquidity aggregation The licensing represents a step toward long-term protocol sustainability as Carbon DeFi continues development. The Arb Fast Lane is expanding to Layer 2 networks, aiming to improve price alignment and liquidity efficiency across chains. Bancor representatives will discuss the technology at Consensus Hong Kong.

CarbonDeFi has introduced **Recurring Strategies**, a feature that automates the traditional "buy low, sell high" trading cycle. **How it works:** - Traders create two linked orders: one to buy and one to sell at different price points - When one order fills, the acquired tokens automatically fund the linked order - This creates a continuous trading cycle without manual intervention The platform eliminates the dozens of manual steps typically required on traditional order books, condensing them into a single automated strategy. According to @MBRichardson87, the product was "built specifically to enable traders to do the stuff they're already doing, but in a way that is a lot more frictionless and a lot more intuitive." The feature targets professional traders who think in terms of repeated cycles rather than single orders, offering continuous onchain activity with zero micromanagement. [Learn more about Automated Recurring Limit Orders](https://medium.com/bancor/automated-recurring-limit-orders-explained-8a137b8bb206)

**COTI Earn Season 2** is live on Carbon DeFi, offering users daily Token Points (TPs) that convert to $COTI at season's end. **How it works:** - Create strategies using $USDC, $wBTC, $wETH, $COTI, or $gCOTI - Earn daily Token Points automatically - Convert TPs to $COTI when season ends **Getting started:** - Visit Carbon DeFi platform - Select the gift icon to view existing COTI strategies - Deploy your chosen assets to start earning Users report checking their strategies has become part of their daily routine, with one saying *"I get up, and I check my strategies on Carbon DeFi... it's like 'Oh, I got this many TPs today.'"* The program continues the successful first season, providing a straightforward way to earn COTI tokens through DeFi strategies.