What is Carbon?

Carbon is a decentralized perpetual exchange, that aggregates real liquidity from both cryptocurrency markets and traditional finance into a unified on-chain platform. It enables trading contracts like stocks, indices, forex, and commodities as CFD-style perps.

Unlike synthetic or shallow AMM-based DEXs, Carbon uses an intent-based trading architecture combined with solver-based execution: users submit intents, while solvers (market makers via the Carbon Solver Vault/CLP) source and hedge liquidity across deep venues like Binance, Bybit, and regulated TradFi CFD brokers, providing exchange-grade speed, depth, and zero fees for traders while maintaining self-custody, no KYC, and on-chain settlement.

Solvers operate delta-neutral strategies, hedge off-chain where needed, and power features like dynamic funding rates based on streamed pricing from multiple sources. It includes a community-accessible Carbon Solver Vault for passive market-making income, risk disclosures e.g., hedging venue risks.