Bancor

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 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)

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. [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, clarified the relationship between automated market makers (AMMs) and order books in DeFi trading systems. **Key Points:** - AMMs are a specific type of order book implementation that operates in one direction with limited flexibility - Traditional order books offer discrete pricing and greater adaptability - [Carbon DeFi](https://carbondefi.xyz) combines order book capabilities with continuous pricing models, a feature unavailable in conventional systems The explanation challenges the common perception that AMMs and order books are fundamentally different technologies, instead positioning AMMs as a constrained subset of order book functionality.

**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.

A new arbitrage framework called **Arb Fast Lane** addresses limitations in current systems that struggle with modern AMM designs. **The Innovation:** - Uses Marginal Price Optimization to identify optimal trades at the marginal price frontier - Reduces optimization from two-variables-per-curve to one-variable-per-token **Performance Improvements:** - 200x faster execution than legacy systems - 15-decimal precision in trade execution - Works across any AMM or pricing curve [Research paper](https://arxiv.org/html/2502.08258v1)

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)