Bancor

**CarbonDeFi has launched a solution for concentrated liquidity positions that eliminates common friction points.** Traditional concentrated liquidity setups face two main challenges: - Manual fee compounding requires time and gas costs - Automated compounding relies on third-party keepers or hooks, adding expenses and security risks **CarbonDeFi's approach:** The protocol offers native auto-compounding built directly into the system. Profits automatically reinvest without additional costs or external dependencies. This removes the need for manual intervention or third-party services while keeping more capital actively working in positions.

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 has expanded its Earn campaign on CarbonDeFi by adding two new tokens to the eligible list. **New Additions:** - $wADA (wrapped Cardano) - $USDT (Tether) Strategy makers can now create 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 Qualifying strategies start at just $10. Season 3 allocates 15M $COTI total, distributed at 1,250,000 $COTI per week. [Get started on COTI network](http://coti.CarbonDeFi.xyz)

**Carbon DeFi** enables token projects to become their own market makers through automated onchain strategies. **How it works:** - Projects create a **sell order** (single-sided if desired) at a specific price or range - Set a **buy order** at a lower price using proceeds from sales - Proceeds **automatically recycle** between buy and sell orders, creating a continuous "buy low, sell high" loop **Key advantages:** - Fund only one side initially and let proceeds fund the other - Adjust ranges, prices, and strategies anytime without rebuilding - Full transparency - all strategies visible onchain - Share strategy links directly with communities Unlike typical concentrated liquidity pools, buy and sell orders aren't constrained to the same price level, giving projects more control over their token's market dynamics. [Read more]( https://blog.bancor.network/should-token-projects-be-their-own-market-maker-3ddd6b98e83e)

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, 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/)

Mark Richardson, Bancor's Project Lead, challenges the traditional distinction between automated market makers (AMMs) and order books in decentralized finance. **Key Points:** - AMMs are essentially a **specific, inflexible implementation** of order books that operate in only one way - Traditional order books offer **discrete pricing and greater flexibility** - [CarbonDeFi](https://twitter.com/CarbonDeFixyz) combines order book capabilities with **continuous pricing models** unavailable in conventional systems This perspective suggests the DeFi industry may need to reconsider how it categorizes trading mechanisms, with newer protocols like Carbon bridging the gap between rigid AMM structures and flexible order book systems.

**Range Orders** on Carbon DeFi enable traders to buy or sell tokens across a custom price range rather than at a single price point. The order fills gradually as the market moves through the specified range. **Key use cases:** - Scaling into positions during market dips - Scaling out during price rallies - Gaining exposure across multiple price levels Unlike traditional limit orders, Range Orders don't require multiple stacked orders or manual swaps. Carbon DeFi's built-in solver system (Arb Fast Lane) sources chainwide liquidity to efficiently fill orders as prices move through the defined range. This DeFi primitive is exclusive to Carbon DeFi and licensed deployments, currently live on Ethereum, Sei, Celo, COTI, TAC, and Base via [Alien Base](https://alienbase.xyz).

Carbon DeFi has activated a new rewards campaign for liquidity providers. Users can now earn USDGLO tokens by providing liquidity for two trading pairs: **USDm/USDGLO** and **CELO/USDGLO**. The campaign is a collaboration between Carbon DeFi, Glo Dollar, and Celo, with rewards distributed through the Merkl platform. **How to participate:** - Provide liquidity for eligible pairs on Carbon DeFi - Rewards automatically distributed via [Merkl](https://app.merkl.xyz/?search=carbon+defi) This expands on previous campaigns that focused solely on the CELO/USDGLO pair.

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)