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Trade digital assets with low costs and low latency on Ethereum L2 with custom ZK circuits for verifiable matching and liquidations. Public mainnet live.
Feb 26 10 tweets 2 min read
We had the first battle test of LLP Strategies in the last several hours. TLDR: it worked as expected and protected LLP holders as well as traders. Deep dive in this thread. Over a few days, a trader built up a very large long position in ARC relative to the size of the market. Around 600 other traders and market makers on Lighter took the other side of the trade, ultimately reaching total Open Interest of 50M USDC.
Dec 30, 2025 14 tweets 2 min read
We are announcing the Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT)! Lighter is building infrastructure for the future of finance and the native token is key to aligning incentives. In this thread, we will describe the structure of the token, broader vision, and roadmap of use cases. The value created by all Lighter products and services will fully accrue to LIT holders. We are building in the USA and the token is issued directly from our C-Corp, which will continue to operate the protocol at cost.
Oct 1, 2025 12 tweets 2 min read
The Lighter public mainnet is live after 8 months of private beta!

Trade perpetuals with low costs and low latency on Ethereum L2 with custom ZK circuits for verifiable matching and liquidations. Experience onchain trading at the performance grade of high frequency finance. The first season of the Lighter points program has concluded and the second season is starting, planned to run through the end of 2025. In the coming days, we will publish more details on the ways the community can earn points at this phase in the Lighter journey.