How onchain limit, range, and recurring orders let you trade without watching the charts.Illustration created with AI assistance.You can’t make more time. Automate your trades.Crypto never closes, and to some, that sounds like freedom. There’s no opening bell, no weekend, no one telling you when you’re allowed to trade. But anyone who’s been in crypto for, oh I don’t know — 24 hours, knows that freedom, that chart checking, quickly and aggressively becomes an […]

Concentrated Liquidity and a Recurring Strategy backtested using real historical data.Two strategies trade the same CELO/USDT market from January 1 to September 19, 2026. Both start with 1,000 USDT and use the same outer price boundaries of 0.07 to 0.09 USDT per CELO.The Concentrated Liquidity position gains 2.81 USDT, producing a 0.28% ROI versus holding.The Recurring Strategy gains 336.08 USDT, producing a 33.61% ROI versus holding.The pair, period, starting budget and overall price area […]

Private transaction routing is often presented as the answer to MEV sandwich attacks. If a transaction is hidden from the public mempool, an attacker cannot see it in time to trade before and after it.Recent research makes that answer less comfortable.One study examining Ethereum transactions from late 2024 identified 2,932 private sandwich attacks affecting 3,126 private victim transactions. It found that users often moved to private routing after being attacked publicly, but concluded that […]

Tokenized gold has grown into a roughly $7 billion market. By February 2026, Reuters reported that nearly 20 gold-backed tokens had already reached close to $6 billion in combined market cap, more than four times the size of the market at the end of 2024. Bitcoin, meanwhile, remains a trillion-dollar market of its own.The growth of these two markets made me want to revisit an idea I first explored in March 2025: what happens when you stop measuring Bitcoin in dollars and start measuring it […]

Range orders allow traders to buy or sell progressively across a custom price range. However, most existing methods require users to create a series of separate limit orders or use a concentrated liquidity position that can reverse when the market changes direction.This article gives a high-level overview of current range order mechanisms, their tradeoffs, and Carbon DeFi’s solution for range orders that are:fully onchainone-directionalirreversible on executionLet’s first explore the two […]