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Introducing Guilds, a new way to bring your friends and communities together on Lighter. Create or join a guild and challenge other communities through Duels, add your X account, climb leaderboards, and more! 🕯️

We've surpassed 1 million accounts on Lighter Core. Thank you to everyone building and trading with us! 🕯️

라이터(LIT) KRW 마켓 거래지원 안내 ✅ 지원 마켓 : KRW 마켓 📅 거래지원 개시 시점: 2026-08-24 13:00 KST 🔗 공지 바로가기: upbit.com/service_center/not… #Upbit #LIT @Lighter_xyz

VLAD: LIGHTER HAS BUILT THE WORLD'S LARGEST PROVING INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATING A FLEET OF 3053 APPLE SILICON MAC MINIS

Been diving into Lighter (ethereum:0x232ce3bd40fcd6f80f3d55a522d03f25df784ee2 ). If Ethereum wants to keep perpetuals volume on-chain, this is the killer app it needs. Here is the thesis on why it works, current metrics, and how it co-exists with Hyperliquid and isn't just a "beta" play: The Metrics -Volume: ~$112M daily -Valuation: ~$345M market cap -Position: Top 5 DeFi trading volume globally The Architecture We need infrastructure that proves Ethereum can handle high-frequency trading. Lighter is an app-specific zk-rollup built for central limit order book (CLOB) trading. -Execution: Off-chain matching with millisecond latency. -Settlement: Trustless settlement on Ethereum via zk-SNARKs and blob data. -Custody: If the sequencer fails, users can reconstruct their accounts and force an exit directly on L1. Co-existing with Hyperliquid The derivatives market is large enough for multiple architectures. -Hyperliquid (Sovereign L1): Optimizes for raw speed and independent consensus. Requires trusting a standalone validator set. -Lighter (Ethereum L2): Optimizes for Ethereum alignment. Sacrifices sovereign control to inherit Ethereum's security budget. Hyperliquid proved the demand for fast, on-chain order books. Lighter takes that product-market fit and anchors it to Ethereum. Both models will capture significant volume as traders diversify their counterparty risk profiles.

Fireside Chat with @VitalikButerin , @ethereumJoseph & Lighter founder @vnovakovski ! We will discuss high performance applications, ZK rollups on Ethereum, roadmap for scaling, future of DeFi, and beyond. Monday, May 18th at 3PM UTC. Link in the replies. Don't miss it!

We are rolling out staking of LIT on Lighter! Here we will describe the initial utility from staking and how it will affect the Lighter ecosystem.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Crypto Czar David Sacks meets with Senators to help advance crypto market structure legislation.

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 best kind of FUD is technical from someone who's actually built something. Eli is right that Lighter currently only supports custom ZK circuits for trading, but that will change soon - stay tuned! nitter.gq/EliBenSasson/status/19…

The testnet for spot trading on Lighter is live! Check out the link in the thread. We welcome feedback from traders as we get ready to launch the mainnet.

Lighter reached $1 Trillion of Total Volume

FX trading now available on Lighter! You can now trade the following perps with up to 25x leverage: - GBP/USD - EUR/USD - USD/CHF - USD/CAD - USD/JPY

Gm to everyone except lighter, who is deleting wicks Hyperliquid.

ZKVM, Spot, RWA, LLP as collateral. 👀