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Summary:Robinhod Chain’s ecology is expanding, and chain trading infrastructure is becoming the focus of market attention. In addition to Pons, Uniswap, and launch platforms, Lighter is also getting a lot of attention.

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I. Lighter Overview

Based onFortune's interviewVladimir Novakovski created Lighter and also served as CEO, immigrating from Russia to the United States when he was a young boy, who was elected to participate in the international informatics and physics Olympic competition. At the age of 16, he graduated early from Harvard University. At 18 years of age, she began working in the Castles Investment Group of Spectre Foundation (who was personally recruited by Ken Griffin, CEO of the Castle Investment Group), with a quantitative trading and engineering background, and later started the AI/Socialistic Entrepreneurship Company Lunchclub, which then moved to cryptocurrency and set up Lighter in 2022. In 2025, Lighter officially entered the market and the outbreak broke out.

Based onLighter Network of OfficialsInformation, Lighter, a decentralised trading platform designed to provide a safe, scalable and high-performance trading environment while maintaining zero handling fees. It is the first exchange that provides verifiable matching and clearing of orders, with performance comparable to that of traditional exchanges.

Lighter uses the ZK Rollup + Central Limited Order Book (CLOB) as its core, leading to the renewal of contractual transactions. The Lighter official emphasizes that its matching, account balances and clearing operations all produce a password certificate and are ultimately validated in the Taigaya.

II. From $262 million to $1.5 billion, Lighter ' s capital formation

Lighter has a very strong capital formation behind it.

Lighter completed approximately $21 million in financing in 2024, with investors including Haun Ventures, Craft Ventures, Dragonfly, Robot Ventures. The post-investment valuation at that time was about $262 million.

In November 2025, Lighter announced the completion of $68 million in financing, valued at approximately $1.5 billion.CoinDeskThe publication “Lighter valuation of $1.5 billion” aims to challenge competitors in the field of chemical derivatives and is backed by prominent investors, including Funders Fund, Ribbit Capital, Haun Ventures and Robinhod Markets. This round of financing will be used to support the outreach of the Platform ' s clients, enhance the low-delayed trading infrastructure and provide full public access. I'm sorry.

From the outset, Lighter was not a DeFi project that relied solely on community incentives. Its goal is clear: to become a chain-based derivatives trading infrastructure. It also ambushed Lighter’s ongoing expansion in the direction of RWA, stocks, commodities, foreign exchange and cooperation with Robinhod Chain.

Lighter has grown at an alarming rate, from approximately $260 million in 2024 to about $1.5 billion by the end of 2025.

Three, how strong is Lighter now?

According to DeFiLlama, Lighter currently has about $663 million in TVL, a 30-day contract turnover of approximately $45,977 million for sustainable contracts and an unsettled contract size of about $1,354 million. Over the past 30 days, Lighter has generated some $4.66 million in handling fees and $3.48 million in revenue, with annualized gains of about $65.79 million.

From the historical trends on the right side of the chart below, Lighter's TVL entered a period of rapid growth in the second half of 2025, particularly after a very sharp spiral, with the curve rising almost vertically, rapidly breaking $1 billion near hundreds of millions of dollars and at one point approaching $1.5 billion to reach its milestones. After that, TVL came back. In the recent past, there has been renewed upward momentum in the curve and TVL has now recovered to around $663 million.

According to CoinGecko, the LIT reported $4.58 as at the time of issue. However, only $2.29 a half month ago, on 19 August, was 100 per cent higher, doubling prices. The current market value is about $1,146 million, with a completely diluted estimate of $4.585 billion.

What's wrong with Lighter?

1. Zero charges for partial accounts

“For the time being, Lighter will be able to trade in all markets free of charge for the transaction fees of both futures and spot markets. All participants will have to pay for the handling fees of marketers and bill-takers, but will receive a discount on the fee through pledge LT.” This is very attractive for long-term contract dealers.

But Lighter is not always free of charge for all accounts. The Platform also has Premium Account, which can receive lower transaction costs through pledge LIT; lower transaction delays; and more efficient transactions. The maximum deposit slot is 500,000 LITs, corresponding to a 30 per cent discount on handling charges, while the Taker delay can be further reduced.

2. ZK Core Technical Architecture

Lighter's core technical architecture is based on a dedicated zk-Rollup and has a verifiable matchmaking engine. This innovative design means that each result of a netting-off is validated through the zero knowledge certificate (ZK-SNARKs), no longer dependent on the commitment of the central server, and every transaction follows the principles of price preference, time priority, ensuring fair, transparent and non-false integration, which also makes Lighter one of the few DeFi platforms that can achieve high frequency alignment on the full chain.

3. Becoming a Robinwood derivatives trading infrastructure

In July 2026, after the Robinhod Chain main online line, Lighter became one of its derivatives trading infrastructure. Robinhod Chain provides access to assets and users, while Lighter provides them with a permanent contractual trading capability.

Robinhod’s desire to integrate stock coins, RWA, contract for eternity, DeFi, etc. requires a mature derivative platform that Lighter precisely provides – a part of the capacity that Lighter now supports stocks, ETFs, commodities, foreign exchange, and so forth – can provide strong support to Robinhod. Now, Lighter is back on the line, bound up with Robinhod Chain.

Five, what does Robinwood bring to Lighter? 

1. Chain-to-chain trading infrastructure

Robinwood, 1 July 2026Declaration Robinhod Chain has a web-based line and is simultaneously launching a range of products, including stock coins, DeFi, and sustainable contracts. Among them, Lighter became the permanent contractual trading infrastructure that Robinwood Wallet had access to. The official Robinhod has made it clear that eligible users in some jurisdictions can directly access the permanent contract of Lighter through Robinhod Wallet. The USDG deposited by the user will enter the Lighter Relayer smart contract on Robinwood Chain and be locked into a warehouse deposit.

Robinhod Chain deploys an independent Lighter Institute, with its own order book, sorter, block space, smart contracts and mobility, independently of Lighter Core. In the future, these different Lighter examples can be connected by proving aggregates and verifying messages.

Lighter is moving from a single, sustainable DEX to a chain-trading infrastructure that can be deployed in different ecosystems.

2. Tied to Robinood Chain

In announcing its cooperation, the official Robinhod stated that Lighter had committed 11 million LITs to the Robinhod community. Eligible users can obtain Lighter credits through Robinwood Wallet trading the Lighter contract for good time, and double their weights obtained through Robinwood Wallet transactions, compared to one per cent directly through Lighter's web end; These credits will be converted to LIT in accordance with the Lighter rules.

The more users Robinhod Chain brings, the more active the permanent contract transactions will be, the greater the trade demand of Lighter.

3. Provision of traditional financial entry points

Robinhood grew from the original traditional voucher to a super-financial platform, promoting stock coins, chain DeFi and global trading.

If Robin Chain eventually becomes an important entry point for stock coins and RWA transactions, Lighter may be one of the most directly beneficial derivative infrastructure. Following on, attention should also be paid to how many users, trade volumes, and revenues Robinwood brings, ultimately sink into the Lighter Agreement and the LIT economic model.

Summary

Lighter is moving away from a permanent contract, DEX, to a more imaginative space-based chain derivative infrastructure. Cooperation with Robinhod Chain is further amplifying this narrative.

With the development of Robinhod Chain, RWA and chain-based stock trading, Lighter is trying to become an important infrastructure linking traditional financial assets to chain-based asset transactions, which also brings investors ' attention back to Lighter. The positive feedback from Robinwood Chain is reflected in the doubling of LIT prices during the half month. The “half-month doubling” may be a mere sign that the future is even more of concern if Robin Chain continues to be the biggest growth dividend in the next phase of Lighter.