Carbon DeFi Enables Token Projects to Become Onchain Market Makers
Carbon DeFi Enables Token Projects to Become Onchain Market Makers
🔄 Projects Market Making Themselves
Carbon DeFi allows token projects to function as their own market makers through automated onchain strategies.
How it works:
- Projects create a sell order for their token at a specific price or range (e.g., $0.37-$0.50)
- They set a buy order at a lower price to repurchase tokens using sale proceeds
- Proceeds automatically rotate between orders, creating a continuous buy-low-sell-high cycle
Key advantages:
- Projects can fund just one side initially and let proceeds fund the other
- Strategies are fully transparent and live onchain
- Orders can be adjusted anytime without rebuilding
- No expiry dates or third-party dependencies
Unlike typical automated market makers, Carbon DeFi's linked orders aren't constrained to the same price level, giving projects precise control over their market-making strategy. The platform displays all fills, edits, and timestamps, with shareable strategy links for community transparency.
Concentrated Liquidity strategies on @CarbonDeFixyz are individual liquidity positions, broadcast across the entire blockchain and traded against chainwide liquidity through a built-in solver system. Strategies can be created within any price range — free of tick constraints and
How Carbon DeFi turns token projects into onchain market makers At a high level, @CarbonDeFixyz lets a token project: 1. Define a sell order 🔹 Single sided if desired (for example, only the project’s token). 🔹 Either at a specific price or across a range (e.g., sell from
Professional traders don’t think in a single order. They think in "buy low, sell high — on repeat". On a traditional order book, that requires dozens of manual steps. On @CarbonDeFixyz, it's a single Recurring Strategy. As one order fills, the acquired tokens automatically
What Is a Recurring Order? A Recurring Order links two strategies — one to buy and the other to sell — into a single loop. Once tokens are traded from one side, @CarbonDeFixyz automatically rotates the newly acquired funds into the opposite order. The result? A continuous “buy
Carbon DeFi is the only DEX to offer Maker-style Limit Orders with: ✅ Any token combination Makers can create a strategy using any two standard ERC20 tokens. ✅ 100% price certainty The maker defines the exact price — or range — before any trade occurs. Execution happens
Most DEXs give you a swap button and a pre-prescribed liquidity strategy, with you having little to no control over your funds. @CarbonDeFixyz takes a different approach. It is the only DEX to give you the ability to create custom trading strategies with: • True onchain,
Backtest your trading strategy using real historical price data with the Carbon DeFi Simulator. Compare Concentrated Liquidity and Recurring Strategies (exclusive to @CarbonDeFixyz), and fine-tune your approach for optimal results, directly on the Carbon DeFi UI. Users may
Strategy makers on @CarbonDeFixyz have the ability to create two separate orders, one to buy a token and the other to sell a token, at whatever price points they choose. These two orders are then linked together. Linked orders result in acquired funds automatically rotating
Carbon DeFi Licenses Orderbook Technology to Multiple DeFi Projects
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.
COTI Earn Expands: wADA and USDT Added to Strategy Options
COTI has expanded its Earn campaign on CarbonDeFi by adding two new tokens to eligible strategy options. **New Additions:** - $wADA (wrapped Cardano) - $USDT (Tether) Strategy makers can now create trading strategies using these tokens and earn Token Points (TPs), which are redeemable for $COTI when Season 3 ends. **Complete List of Eligible Tokens:** - $COTI - $gCOTI - $USDC - $wBTC - $wETH - $wADA - $USDT **Program Details:** - Minimum strategy value: $10 - Season 3 allocation: 15M $COTI total - Weekly distribution: 1,250,000 $COTI The expansion gives users more flexibility in building DeFi strategies while earning rewards on the COTI network. [Get started on CarbonDeFi](http://coti.CarbonDeFi.xyz)
Bancor's Arb Fast Lane Adds Privacy Layer with COTI Garbled Circuits
Bancor has integrated COTI's Garbled Circuits technology into its Arb Fast Lane to address a critical vulnerability in onchain arbitrage. **The Problem** - Arbitrage opportunities are extremely brief - Transactions become visible to all observers the moment they're broadcast - This transparency creates a competitive disadvantage **The Solution** - Garbled Circuits apply privacy at the execution moment - Protects traders when transparency becomes a liability - Maintains overall onchain transparency while securing critical execution windows The integration targets the specific moment where public visibility hurts arbitrage execution, rather than applying blanket privacy. This selective approach aims to balance the need for competitive protection with blockchain's transparency principles. [Read full details](https://blog.bancor.network/protecting-arbitrage-execution-with-privacy-without-sacrificing-onchain-transparency-661e5833aae1)
Bancor Launches Research Symposium on Incentive Design at EthCC
Bancor, in collaboration with Token Engineering and EthCC, is hosting **TERSE** (TE Research Symposium) at EthCC[9] in Cannes, France on March 31, 2026. The symposium focuses on rigorous analysis of **incentive alignment** in protocol design, treating it as an engineering problem rather than marketing. Researchers are invited to submit work that: - Models incentive effects with explicit assumptions - Quantifies trade-offs between decentralization and centralization - Examines protocol mechanisms and their embedded assumptions - Presents clear problem statements, methods, and limitations Both peer-reviewed papers and work-in-progress are welcome, provided submissions are research-driven and non-promotional. **Submission deadline:** February 20, 2026 [Submit your research](https://www.tokenengineering.net/)