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

Carbon, the on-chain prime broker for global markets, has opened public trading on more than 250 Carbon TradFi markets spanning equities, indices, forex, and commodities. Each position is hedged 1:1 at regulated traditional finance venues, a structure the company says makes Carbon the largest TradFi-native on-chain derivatives venue. Combined with its existing 530+ crypto perpetuals and 150 round-the-clock real-world asset (RWA) markets, the total number of tradeable instruments now exceeds 950 within a single account.

The launch arrives as RWA tokenization continues to expand across DeFi, with major protocols and institutions exploring ways to bring off-chain assets on-chain. Carbon's approach targets one of the segment's most persistent barriers: the liquidity gap between traditional markets and on-chain venues.

Carbon TradFi operates as the platform's proprietary on-chain instrument. A trader opens a position on-chain in 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 are derived from the underlying market rather than from bootstrapped on-chain order books.

This architecture addresses the cold-start liquidity problem that has historically constrained real-world assets on-chain. Every Carbon TradFi market launches with full institutional depth on day one because that depth is inherited from the underlying market rather than manufactured. There is no per-market incentive program to maintain and no waiting period for liquidity to accumulate.

Carbon now offers both market types within one account. Its 150 24/7 real-world markets trade around the clock, catering to traders who need access at any hour. Its 250+ Carbon TradFi markets track regular market hours with carry prices from the underlying, serving traders who prioritize institutional depth and predictable holding costs. Approximately 30 assets are available in both formats, enabling traders to hold one against the other and capture the spread between the two financing rates without leaving the platform.

The scale of the global market Carbon connects to is substantial. Traditional finance clears over $1.5 trillion daily in contracts for difference (CFDs) — cash-settled derivative instruments that track the price of an underlying asset without requiring ownership — across thousands of markets. That liquidity had no direct on-chain route.

Carbon TradFi coverage at launch:

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

Carbon can list a trending asset within the same week it begins moving in Seoul, Tokyo, or Hong Kong — a cadence that order-book venues cannot match because they lack the off-chain infrastructure to establish new markets that 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 illustrative and ranges 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." — Levy, Co-founder and CEO of Carbon

"One of the biggest challenges for bringing traditional financial assets onchain has been delivering deep liquidity. Carbon is operating an architecture that connects onchain trading with established market infrastructure while preserving self-custody. We want Arbitrum to be home to teams building this next generation of financial infrastructure." — 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. Carbon'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 $20B+ in cumulative trading volume across 36K+ unique traders. Carbon operates on Arbitrum, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling network.

Source: CoinoMedia