Carbon Core

Carbon Core is a decentralized cross-chain financial protocol built atop of Cosmos-SDK. Engineered by Switcheo Labs, Carbon is designed specifically to support scalable and secure trading of derivatives and sophisticated financial instruments such as options, futures and bonds.

Carbon Core also acts as a building block for cross-chain DeFi by bridging the Cosmos and Ethereum ecosystems, allowing for cross-chain money markets and permissionless listing of tokens from IBC, EVM and non-EVM chains.

The current version of Carbon Core supports trading of spot markets, dated futures and perpetuals. For the complete list of financial capabilities being developed on Carbon Core, check out the user guide.

Application Examples

User interfaces, such as Demex, are built directly on top of Carbon Core and act as trading venues to give end users access to markets and instruments on the blockchain.

You may think of such interfaces as the frontend portion of the exchange, while Carbon Core acts as a decentralized backend. To explain this better, we take reference to the dApp analogy: Demex is to Carbon Core as Uniswap is to Ethereum.

Here are some examples of applications built on Carbon Core:

DeFi dApps

• Demex - A cross-chain derivatives decentralized exchange (DEX)

• Carbonhub - One-stop resource for all things SWTH; Buy, bridge or stake SWTH on Carbonhub

• ZilBridge - Cross-chain solution enabling transfers between Zilliqa and Ethereum-based assets

Blockchain Explorers

• Carbonscan - Transparent access to transactions occurring on the Carbon blockchain

• Hydrogen - Decentralized relayer network that handles cross-chain transactions between Carbon and supported blockchains