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

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

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

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

Carbon now offers both TradFi and 24/7 real-world market types in one account. The 150 24/7 real-world markets trade around the clock for traders seeking access at any hour. The 250+ Carbon TradFi markets track official market hours and carry prices from the underlying, suited for traders who want 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 substantial. TradFi clears over $1.5 trillion daily in contracts for difference (CFDs) across thousands of markets — liquidity that, until now, had no direct route on-chain. CFDs allow traders to take long or short positions on price movements without owning the underlying instrument, and Carbon's architecture essentially tokenizes that mechanism while routing the hedge through a regulated intermediary.

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 name within the same week it begins moving in Seoul, Tokyo, or Hong Kong — a cadence that order-book venues cannot match due to the lack of off-chain rails to establish 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 from the spread 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.

Levy, Co-founder and CEO of Carbon, said:

"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."

David Garcia, Ecosystem Lead at Arbitrum Foundation, stated:

"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 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.

Contact: COO Rens Carbon, rens@carbon.inc