DeFi & NFT
By Dan Saada
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What the 950 Markets Actually Look Like. The TradFi side of things at launch covers 200 stocks from the US, EU, and Asia, 62 forex pairs,…
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CLP Vault and the Yield Side. Carbon also launched the Carbon Liquidity Provider vault alongside the trading platform.
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Speed, Arbitrum, and What Levy Said. Carbon's CEO, Levy, said the platform eliminates the old trade-off between asset choice and…
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Carbon just went live with a derivatives platform covering more than 950 markets globally — and it's probably one of the more ambitious on-chain builds anyone's tried in a while.
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The platform pulls together Carbon's existing 530-plus crypto perpetuals, 150 real-world assets trading around the clock, and now more than 250 traditional finance markets.
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It's based out of the British Virgin Islands.
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And the depth matters here. One of the persistent knocks against on-chain trading of real-world assets is that order books are thin, spreads are wide, and the experience feels…
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Traders keep self-custody throughout. Pricing and depth come directly from the underlying markets, which Carbon frames as a transparency play.
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Read also: Crypto Market Loses $2 Trillion but Traders Keep Piling Into Leveraged Bets
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The CLP vault is a delta-neutral yield product. It funds the off-chain hedges that back trader positions, and in return, liquidity providers earn yield.
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Delta-neutral products like this have gotten more attention lately as traders look for yield that isn't just directional crypto exposure.
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David Garcia from the Arbitrum Foundation weighed in too, pointing to how the platform bridges on-chain trading with established financial infrastructure while keeping…
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The listing speed is worth flagging separately. Carbon says it can list trending names from markets in Seoul, Tokyo, and Hong Kong within the same week they start gaining traction.
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Carbon has been running since 2023. It's processed over $20 billion in trading volume across more than 36,000 traders on Arbitrum.
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