Road Town, British Virgin Islands — August 7, 2026 (Chainwire)

Carbon, the on-chain prime broker for global markets, has opened public trading on more than 250 Carbon TradFi markets covering equities, indices, forex, and commodities. The launch adds to Carbon's existing 530+ crypto perpetuals and 150 round-the-clock real-world asset (RWA) markets, bringing the total number of tradeable instruments to over 950 within a single account.

Each TradFi position is hedged 1:1 at regulated traditional-finance venues, which Carbon says makes it the largest TradFi-native on-chain derivatives platform. The launch arrives as tokenization of real-world assets accelerates across the crypto industry, with major financial institutions including BlackRock having launched on-chain treasury funds and analysts projecting significant growth for the sector.

How Carbon TradFi Works

Carbon TradFi is the company's proprietary on-chain instrument. A trader opens a position directly in their own wallet, and Carbon's solver architecture hedges that position one-to-one at a regulated off-chain broker. Because the trader never relinquishes self-custody, the price and market depth they experience come from the underlying market itself rather than from bootstrapped on-chain order books.

This design eliminates 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, since that depth is inherited from established venues rather than manufactured internally. There are no per-market incentive programs and no waiting period for liquidity to accumulate. The approach differs from synthetic asset protocols that use oracle price feeds to replicate exposure, as Carbon routes each position through an actual regulated brokerage relationship.

Two Market Types in One Account

Carbon now provides traders access to two distinct market types within a single account:

• 150 24/7 real-world markets — These trade continuously, catering to users who want access at any hour.
• 250+ Carbon TradFi markets — These follow traditional market hours with carry prices derived from the underlying instruments, suited for traders seeking institutional depth and predictable holding costs.

Approximately 30 assets are available in both formats, allowing a trader to hold one against the other and capture the spread between the two financing rates without leaving the account.

Connecting On-Chain to Global TradFi Liquidity

The scale of the market Carbon is tapping is significant. Traditional finance clears more than $1.5 trillion daily in contracts for difference (CFDs) across thousands of markets — liquidity that, until now, had no direct on-chain route.

Carbon TradFi coverage at launch includes:

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

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

Carbon Liquidity Provider Vault Opens to Public

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 spread 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. Delta-neutral strategies have become a growing category in decentralized finance, though returns depend on sustained trading activity and utilization assumptions.

Executive Commentary

"Traders have had to choose between the assets they want and the execution they need. Carbon ends that trade-off," said Levy, Co-founder and CEO of Carbon. "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."

David Garcia, Ecosystem Lead at the Arbitrum Foundation, added: "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."

About Carbon

Carbon is an on-chain prime broker for global markets, combining crypto perpetuals and Carbon TradFi in one venue. Its solver architecture connects on-chain traders to institutional liquidity through bilateral 1:1 hedging, aiming to deliver 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. The platform operates on Arbitrum, one of the largest Ethereum Layer 2 networks by total value locked. Additional information is available at carbon.inc.