Advanced Trading, Precision Liquidity, and Chain-wide Arbitrage– Now on COTI
Bancor technologies are the first to launch on COTI Mainnet– the fastest, lightest privacy layer in Web3- with Carbon DeFi and the Arb Fast Lane now live.
The decentralized trading experience is evolving fast, and new blockchains need powerful DeFi infrastructure. But Bancor is far from just bringing another DEX to the scene.
Traders and token projects alike need more control over how their assets move — when they move, at what prices, and under what conditions — far beyond what traditional AMMs can offer. That’s exactly what Carbon DeFi was built for.
Its novel architecture unlocks the full potential of onchain trading: automation, customization, flexibility, and precision.
And powering it behind the scenes is Bancor’s Arb Fast Lane — DeFi’s most advanced arbitrage infrastructure. This built-in solver system efficiently fills orders using liquidity from all major DEXes, while delivering network-wide price parity across the entire COTI Mainnet.
A Smarter Way to Trade
Carbon DeFi is a next-generation, orderbook-style DEX that gives strategy makers the power to:
Set custom profit margins with Auto-compounding Concentrated Liquidity
Trade at an exact price point by creating a simple onchain Limit Order
Scale in or out of a one-way trade with a Range Order
Capture volatility with an automated buy-low, sell-high loop using Recurring Orders
And that’s just the beginning. Beyond powerful order types, Carbon DeFi gives users unmatched control, efficiency, and protection through a suite of advanced features:
Carbon offers 100% price certainty with zero slippage, ensuring users receive exactly the price they set- nothing less.
Makers become IMMUNE to MEV sandwich attacks, preserving expected outcomes and protecting capital in volatile markets.
Auto-compounding Concentrated Liquidity- with zero third-party dependencies.
As the only DEX to seamlessly integrate in-house drawing tools and interactive charts into its UI, users can track trends, pinpoint key levels, and map strategies– all without external dependencies.
They can combine any two standard ERC20 tokens, giving full flexibility without being restricted to pre-defined pools.
Strategies are easily adjustable onchain- no need to withdraw, redeposit, and recreate your position.
Users pay zero fees on filled orders, keeping more of their profits and making active trading far more efficient.
Orders can be filled fully or partially, offering flexible execution based on market conditions- helping avoid missed opportunities or waiting for a complete match.
Trades can be automated using onchain conditions and linked strategies, enabling complex logic like buy-low, sell-high loops without manual intervention.
All trades on Carbon are irreversible, offering true onchain finality and removing the risk of rollbacks or reversions.
Carbon DeFi Simulator
Trading crypto requires a strong toolkit — enter the Carbon DeFi Simulator. Built for backtesting against historical market data, it helps traders assess strategy performance, profitability, and risk before going live.
Fully integrated into the Carbon DeFi UI, the simulator enables a seamless shift from testing to execution, streamlining the entire trading process for confident, data-driven decisions.
Activity Tracker
Built directly into the UI, Carbon DeFi’s Activity Tracker allows users to simply and efficiently monitor their strategies and performance in real time. Accessing strategy data on many DEXes — especially AMMs — still requires diving into smart contracts or relying on Dune queries- but not Carbon DeFi.
TL;DR
Carbon DeFi as an intents protocol on steroids, with its own built-in solver system- offering capabilities not found on centralized exchanges (CEXes) or natively on any other decentralized exchanges (DEXes).
Order Matching, Solved
Carbon DeFi was designed to allow strategies to be created, but the real power comes in how those strategies are executed. Most DEXs rely entirely on external traders to discover and fill orders. Carbon DeFi doesn’t.
Every time a trading opportunity appears- even by the smallest margin- Carbon DeFi can act. That’s thanks to its built-in solver system, the Arb Fast Lane. It is the most advanced arbitrage framework in all of DeFi and functions as a high-frequency trading bot.
Orders are routed not just against Carbon DeFi’s native liquidity, but across the entire COTI V2 network, helping ensure that every trade executes efficiently at the exact price quoted.
*See Bancor’s latest Research Paper “Marginal Price Optimization–
A new framework for arbitrage and routing in AMM driven markets v1.0”
https://arxiv.org/html/2502.08258v1
This architecture unlocks a new level of market efficiency for COTI V2, keeping prices aligned, reducing spreads, and ensuring continuous trading activity- without requiring deep liquidity pools or external bots.
In just a few short months, the Arb Fast Lane has already proven its capabilities across other networks, such as Sei and Celo, becoming a top gas consumer and driving significant trading volume- all while making markets more fair and efficient.
This framework:
Acts like a solver, filling orders on Carbon DeFi using chain-wide liquidity
Operates at 200x the speed of previously published onchain arbitrage frameworks
Aligns market prices between Carbon DeFi and every major DEX it integrates
It’s the glue that brings Carbon DeFi to life- sustaining liquidity, optimizing execution, and improving market efficiency for everyone in the ecosystem.
*See “How Arbitrage and Aggregated Liquidity Enhance Blockchain Ecosystems and Token Projects”
Where Execution Meets Privacy
While Carbon DeFi and the Arb Fast Lane deliver precision, efficiency, and control, COTI adds a critical missing layer: privacy. Carbon DeFi already protects against many of the threats plaguing DeFi with its existing architecture, but COTI’s innovative Privacy-on-Demand technology and Garbled Circuits take it one step farther.
The last year and a half has had a lot of unjustified hype surrounding what I consider to be somewhat meaningless improvements, and that’s not what’s happening here. There are really only two developments in all of blockchain that I’ve ever really given any credence to. The first one is Zk, and the second one is Garbled Circuits. — Bancor Project Lead, Dr. Mark Richardson
https://x.com/whoistracer/status/1889033020327571616
With Carbon DeFi deployed on COTI V2, users gain access to fully customizable trading strategies, powered by built-in arbitrage and programmable privacy. It’s a powerful convergence of:
Sophisticated DeFi infrastructure
Chain-wide execution
Confidential, secure computation
This isn’t just another deployment- or run of the mill collaboration. It’s the blueprint for the next era of decentralized markets.
That “breath of fresh air” when Bancor Project Lead, Dr. Mark Richardson, first learned about how COTI’s Garbled Circuits work — and their “sober approach to confidentiality on blockchains.”
https://x.com/whoistracer/status/1865899742548656447
Explore the Future of DeFi
Whether you’re a trader, builder, or token project, the Carbon DeFi and Arb Fast Lane deployments on COTI offer the tools to enable smarter trading, efficient market-making, and meaningful privacy in DeFi.
Learn more about each of Carbon DeFi’s trading strategy types by checking out the 4-part explainer series:
Part 1 — How to Place Limit Orders on Carbon DeFi
Part 2 — How to Scale In/Out Using Carbon DeFi Range Orders
Part 3 — How to Automate Buy Low, Sell High Trades–on Repeat
Part 4 — How to Create a Custom Liquidity on Carbon DeFi
COTI + Bancor: Unlocking DeFi’s Full Potential
By combining:
Bancor’s advanced trading protocol (Carbon DeFi)
Bancor’s built-in arbitrage system (Arb Fast Lane)
COTI’s cutting-edge privacy layer (Garbled Circuits)
… users can now access the most customizable, efficient, and private trading infrastructure in DeFi.
And this is just the beginning.
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