Road Town, British Virgin Islands, August 7th, 2026, Chainwire

Carbon, the on-chain prime broker for global markets, has opened public trading on over 250 Carbon TradFi markets spanning equities, indices, forex, and commodities. Each position is hedged 1:1 at regulated TradFi venues, a structure Carbon says makes it the largest TradFi-native on-chain derivatives venue. Combined with its existing 530+ crypto perpetuals and 150 24/7 real-world assets (RWAs), the platform now offers more than 950 tradeable instruments within a single account.

The launch arrives as tokenization of real-world assets has become one of the most actively pursued verticals in decentralized finance, with stablecoin issuers, asset managers, and infrastructure teams all racing to bridge traditional markets on-chain. Most prior attempts — from synthetic asset protocols to tokenized stock tokens on centralized exchanges — have struggled to sustain deep, reliable liquidity or have wound down operations under regulatory pressure. Carbon's approach targets that bottleneck directly.

Carbon TradFi is the company's proprietary on-chain instrument. A trader opens a position on-chain using their own wallet, and Carbon's solver architecture hedges that position 1:1 at a regulated broker off-chain. The trader retains self-custody throughout, and the price and depth they receive come from the underlying market rather than bootstrapped on-chain order books.

According to Carbon, this structure eliminates the cold-start liquidity problem that has historically constrained real-world assets on-chain. Because the depth is inherited rather than manufactured, every Carbon TradFi market opens at full institutional depth on its first day. There is no per-market incentive program to run and no waiting period while liquidity accumulates.

Carbon now offers both 24/7 real-world markets and TradFi markets within one account. Its 150 24/7 real-world markets trade around the clock for traders seeking access at any hour, while its 250+ Carbon TradFi markets track underlying market hours with carry prices for traders seeking institutional depth and predictable holding costs. Approximately 30 assets are available as both, enabling traders to hold one against the other and capture the difference between the two financing rates without leaving the account.

The global market Carbon connects to is significant. Traditional finance clears over $1.5 trillion daily in contracts for difference (CFDs) across thousands of markets, liquidity that until now had no direct on-chain route. CFDs are a dominant retail trading instrument across Europe, the UK, and Asia-Pacific, though they remain restricted for retail use in the United States — meaning Carbon's venue is likely to draw its earliest demand from regions where CFD trading is already embedded in the retail trading landscape.

Carbon TradFi coverage at launch includes:

• 200 stocks across US, EU, and Asia markets
• 62 forex pairs
• 12 indices
• 8 commodities

Carbon says it can list a trending name within the same week it begins moving in Seoul, Tokyo, or Hong Kong, a pace that order-book venues cannot match due to the lack of off-chain rails needed to launch new markets quickly. A further 150 listings are scheduled.

The launch also opens the Carbon Liquidity Provider (CLP) vault to public deposits. The CLP is a delta-neutral yield product that funds the hedge behind trader flow rather than taking directional positions, earning returns from the difference between on-chain demand and off-chain liquidity. Modeled APY is described as illustrative, ranging from 20.3% at launch utilization to 57.1% at maturity, depending on flow and capital utilization.

"Traders have had to choose between the assets they want and the execution they need. Carbon ends that trade-off. Every position is hedged into the deepest liquidity in the world and settles in the trader's own wallet, with 950+ markets in a single account. This is what global markets look like when they finally arrive on-chain properly," said Levy, Co-founder and CEO of Carbon.

"One of the biggest challenges for bringing traditional financial assets on-chain has been delivering deep liquidity. Carbon is operating an architecture that connects on-chain trading with established market infrastructure while preserving self-custody. We want Arbitrum to be home to teams building this next generation of financial infrastructure," said David Garcia, Ecosystem Lead at Arbitrum Foundation.

About Carbon

Carbon is the on-chain prime broker for global markets, combining crypto perpetuals and Carbon TradFi in one venue. The platform's solver architecture connects on-chain traders to institutional liquidity through bilateral 1:1 hedging, delivering Wall Street-grade depth and stable carry with on-chain settlement and self-custody. Live since 2023, Carbon has processed over $20 billion in cumulative trading volume across more than 36,000 unique traders. Carbon operates on Arbitrum.

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