Lately we’ve seen a pattern in the crypto markets. A regulatory action is announced against a centralized crypto service and its DeFi counterpart pumps. Case in point: This week’s Paxos/BUSD action sent decentralized stablecoin issuer LQTY to a six-month high, surging 45%: Another example is last week’s Kraken action —…

Leading up to the launch of Carbon, more time is being spent on testing the performance of Carbon automated trading strategies in various market conditions. Supporting this research is the newly launched Carbon simulator, an open-source tool for backtesting Carbon strategies with real historical price data. Users can choose an…

A friend recently asked me to explain Carbon “in human terms”. I couldn’t quite decide on the best approach until I remembered seeing a tweet by Danger, a well known “DeFi analyzoor” and creator of the “Today in DeFi” Substack. I had never seen someone calling for Carbon in such…

Carbon Simulator on simulator.carbondefi.xyz After the Carbon Simulator library has been live on PyPi for a while now, we are glad that we can now announce that we have published it in an easily usable format, as Jupyter Notebook directly in your browser, no installation needed. Introduction to Carbon Carbon has been described…

Carbon is an automated trading protocol built for on-chain limit orders. Every Carbon order is designed to execute trades at a specific price or within a specific range — “e.g., sell ETH at 1600 USDC”, or “sell ETH between 1600–1900 USDC”. Users can submit individual orders or combine their orders…

Somehow, there is no protocol for this yet. Quick, in ten seconds name as many protocols as you can on Ethereum designed for you to buy low and sell high on repeat. Yeah…zero, I was also surprised. The first wave of DeFi was about the building blocks — think of…

This is the second installment in a two part series exploring the evolution of Decentralized Exchanges. The first part covers the mechanics of constant product and concentrated liquidity Decentralized Exchanges. The second part focuses on Carbon and the innovation it provides to this changing landscape. Introduction Recently announced, Carbon is a…

Carbon Strategies, Constant Product, and HODL The most recent Bancor Community Call included a slideshow presentation. A simulation was performed to compare a generic Carbon strategy versus a traditional constant product AMM, both benchmarked against HODL. The simulation is relatively simple; a mock price chart with 200 price points…

This is the first installment in a two part series exploring the evolution of Decentralized Exchanges. The first part covers the mechanics of constant product and concentrated liquidity Decentralized Exchanges. The second part focuses on Carbon and the innovation it provides to this changing landscape. Introduction Today we want to do…