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Lighter - Undisclosed
Overview
Funding Date
November 11, 2025
Financing amount
$68M
Valuation
$1.5B
Category
Subcategory
About Lighter - Undisclosed
Lighter has recorded $279.5 billion in 30-day perpetual trading volume, per DefiLlama, with $1.15 billion in total value locked. The Ethereum-based zk-rollup exchange offers zero fees for retail users and on-chain proofs for order matching and liquidations. The $68 million raise will fund new derivatives across multiple chains, deeper liquidity, and monetization tools for institutional players.
Investors
| Investors | Type | Location | Year Founded | #Portfolio Companies | Email Address | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fund | United States of America | 2005 | 41 | [email protected] | ||
| Fund | United States of America | 2012 | 40 | [email protected] | ||
| Fund | United States of America | -- | 30 | -- | ||
| Corporate | Unknown | -- | 1 | -- |
Company Profile / Project Introduction
Lighter is a perpetual trading protocol that introduces a scalable, secure, transparent, non-custodial, and verifiable order book trading infrastructure within the Ethereum ecosystem. As an application-specific zk-rollup, it employs advanced cryptographic techniques and data structures. Lighter significantly improves the security and fairness of order book trading with its verifiable matching engine, ensuring scalable and efficient market price discovery. Thus, Lighter lays the groundwork for creating new, high-performance, and secure digital trading platforms.