{"id":77603,"date":"2023-04-20T19:55:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=77603"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:14:41","slug":"bancor-launches-a-profitable-and-mev-resistant-carbon-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bancor-launches-a-profitable-and-mev-resistant-carbon-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"Bancor launches a &#8216;profitable&#8217; and MEV-resistant Carbon protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of the Bancor project have launched on the Ethereum mainnet the Carbon tool. It is designed to increase the profitability of user interaction with <span data-descr=\"decentralized (non-custodial) exchanges\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DEX<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/ GM!<\/p>\n<p>Today marks a new era for on-chain trading and concentrated liquidity strategies.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JCdJ0L3Nw3\">https:\/\/t.co\/JCdJ0L3Nw3<\/a> is live on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a> Mainnet and ready for your recurring range trading strategies! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rPEGGmjgVX\">pic.twitter.com\/rPEGGmjgVX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carbon (@carbondefixyz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carbondefixyz\/status\/1649040664561082369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The new solution enables automation of trading strategies by configuring ranges for providing liquidity and limit orders. Just like Uniswap v3, Carbon uses the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/concentrated-liquidity-and-optimism-can-uniswap-sustain-leadership-among-dexs\">concentrated liquidity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/ With Carbon, you can decide exactly where your liquidity trades.<\/p>\n<p>Buy in one price range and sell in another, on repeat, with a single position.<\/p>\n<p>As the market moves into your ranges, your orders are filled by users trading with Carbon directly, via DEX aggregators or as arbs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zolDLXmodk\">pic.twitter.com\/zolDLXmodk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carbon (@carbondefixyz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carbondefixyz\/status\/1649040666347941888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For example, a trader expects the Ethereum price to fluctuate between $2000 and $2300 in the near term. He can create a strategy whereby the algorithm will buy coins in the $2000-2100 range and sell in the corridor between $2200-2300.<\/p>\n<p>Backtesting on historical data showed the tool delivered 2 to 3.4x higher returns than traditional methods of providing concentrated liquidity, Bancor underscored.<\/p>\n<p>To update the strategy, there is no need to withdraw funds from the position or add them, which helps avoid extra on-chain operations and, accordingly, gas costs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5\/ Adjustable Parameters<\/p>\n<p>Strategy updates can be made in a highly gas efficient manner, without needing to withdraw and re-add liquidity, via exposed parameters in each strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carbon (@carbondefixyz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carbondefixyz\/status\/1649040671632678917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the developers, Carbon is also &#8216;resistant to sandwich attacks&#8217; within <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-mev-in-ethereum\">MEV<\/a>, whereby the attacker scans the mempool with specialized bot programs to search for large unfinished swap trades on decentralized platforms.<\/p>\n<p>It then initiates two transactions \u2014 one before and one after the planned victim swap, forming a &#8216;sandwich&#8217;. As a result the first transaction pushes up the price of the coins bought by the victim. The attacker then profits by executing the assets.<\/p>\n<p>The first such manipulation is believed to have occurred on Bancor on February 27, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, protection against &#8216;sandwich attacks&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/1inch-network-rolls-out-protection-for-users-against-sandwich-attacks\">implemented<\/a> by the DeFi platform 1inch Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of the Bancor project launched the Carbon tool on the Ethereum mainnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1809,787,1231],"class_list":["post-77603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bancor","tag-dex","tag-mev"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77605,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77603\/revisions\/77605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}