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What is Bancor Network (BNT)?
Bancor is an ecosystem of decentralized, open-source protocols focused on expanding on-chain trading and liquidity. Having introduced the first blockchain-based automated market maker (AMM) in 2017, Bancor's ecosystem features:
- Carbon (Carbon DeFi): Its flagship protocol for automated, on-chain trading strategies using custom limit and range orders.
- Fast Lane (Arb Fast Lane): An arbitrage protocol that maintains price parity across exchanges and redirects arbitrage profits back to the ecosystem.
- Bancor Network Token (BNT): The native token used to govern all ecosystem protocols through the BancorDAO.
Bancor sets itself apart primarily through its flagship protocol, Carbon, which introduces Asymmetric Liquidity:
- Distinct Buy and Sell Curves: Unlike traditional DEXs where positions execute buys and sells using the same curve, Carbon allows individual positions to hold two distinct curves. Users can combine these into recurring, automated "buy low, sell high" strategies with a single rotating source of liquidity.
- Irreversible Execution: Orders cannot be reversed when prices fluctuate, solving a major drawback seen in other on-chain solutions.
- MEV Sandwich Attack Resistance: The design provides built-in immunity against sandwich attacks.
- Oracle- and Keeper-Free: Automated orders execute directly without reliance on external price oracles, keepers, or hooks.
- Zero Fees for Makers: Carbon DeFi makers pay zero trading and zero gas fees when orders are filled, incurring gas only when creating, managing, or deleting a strategy.
The primary utility of the Bancor Network Token (BNT) is protocol governance. Token holders can stake their BNT for vBNT to submit and vote on proposals within the BancorDAO, which manages and decides all protocol developments and additional token utility across the Bancor ecosystem.
The first version of the Bancor protocol and its AMM model was launched in June 2017.
Users can interact with the Bancor Network and BNT token in multiple ways:
- Staking for Governance: Stake BNT for vBNT to participate in BancorDAO voting and shape protocol decisions.
- Automated Trading: Use the Carbon DeFi protocol to deploy automated trading strategies, limit orders, and range orders on-chain.
- Arbitrage: Use Fast Lane to identify and execute arbitrage opportunities between Bancor protocols and external DEXs, routing profits back into the ecosystem.
Bancor aims to resolve several critical inefficiencies inherent in traditional decentralized exchanges and centralized order books:
- Order Reversals and Price Inflexibility: Standard DEX positions use a single pricing curve for both buying and selling, meaning executed orders can reverse if market prices retrace.
- MEV Sandwich Attacks: Traders on typical AMMs frequently lose value to predatory sandwich bots, an issue eliminated by Carbon's asymmetric model.
- Complex Capital Management: Centralized exchanges force users to create and separately fund multiple limit orders; Bancor enables multi-order strategies supported by a single, rotating pool of capital.
- External Dependencies: Unlike many DeFi applications, Carbon automates executions without depending on external oracles or third-party keepers.
Yes, Bancor is open-source. Its smart contracts and related software are distributed under the Apache License v2.0 and are publicly accessible for code review and testing on the Bancor GitHub repository.
Bancor operates under a decentralized governance model managed by the BancorDAO [L1]. Launched in 2020, the DAO enables BNT holders who stake their tokens for vBNT to propose and vote on parameter changes, upgrades, and deployments across all Bancor protocols.
Bancor's long-term vision is to expand the design space of on-chain trading and liquidity by combining the sophisticated execution capabilities of centralized exchanges with the transparency and accessibility of decentralized finance. The community aims to continue building innovative infrastructure—expanding its flagship protocols, Carbon and Fast Lane, across multiple Layer-1 and Layer-2 blockchains to support future DeFi applications.
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