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LIT rose 13% to $4.21 and has doubled in 30 days as traders position for a U.S. perpetuals opening that Lighter has not applied for. Robinhood order flow now supplies 17% of the exchange's daily volume, against 12% on a 30-day basis, while perp DEX volume across the sector fell 30% over seven days.

Perpetual DEX tokens outran bitcoin over the past month, led by Lighter's LIT, on trader positioning for a U.S. regulatory opening that neither the exchange nor the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced.

The bid is regulatory. Volume across perpetual DEXs fell 30.13% over the past seven days to $20.85 billion a day, according to DefiLlama. The one thing measurably growing under Lighter is order flow from Robinhood, and the Robinhood product that produces it is closed to U.S. users.

LIT traded at $4.21 at 20:20 UTC on Thursday, up 13% over 24 hours, 13.8% over seven days and 99.5% over 30 days, for a $1.05 billion market value and a $4.21 billion fully diluted value, according to CoinGecko. The token ranged between $3.69 and $4.33 on $146.7 million of volume and ranks 70th. Bitcoin rose 5.5% over the same 24 hours to $81,492 and 26.9% over 30 days.

Doubling In A MonthThe rally is concentrated in two names. edgeX's EDGE rose 47.5% over 24 hours and 60.4% over seven days to $0.6113, on a $214 million market value and $45.2 million of volume. The exchange traded $1.272 billion over 24 hours and buys back EDGE with platform revenue, having repurchased 4.79% of supply to date, its tokenomics page states.

Hyperliquid's HYPE added 6.1% to $85.99, holding a $19.13 billion market value and trading within 1% of the record $86.71 it set on Aug. 27. Aster's ASTER fell 1.5% to $0.7274, the only decline among the group. GMX rose 3.6%, dYdX 4.1% and Drift 4.2%, each below bitcoin's move.

Over 30 days the ranking separates further: LIT up 99.5%, edgeX up 71% and HYPE up 50.8%, against ASTER at 19.9% and bitcoin at 26.9%. The venues that gained share this year carried the move; the 2021-era perpetual protocols did not.

No Filing, No DocketLighter founder Vladimir Novakovski holds one of the 43 seats on the CFTC's Innovation Advisory Committee, which the agency named in 2026 and convened for the first time on Aug. 20. The agency's readout of that meeting lists crypto's regulatory evolution, artificial intelligence and compute in derivatives markets, and prediction markets. Perpetual futures do not appear on it.

No public CFTC docket names Lighter, and the exchange has not filed to register as a designated contract market. Its committee seat carries no trading authorization.

The sector-wide opening is real. The CFTC issued a policy statement on listing perpetual contracts in June and followed with staff letter 26-19, a no-action position letting registered exchanges convert perpetual-style digital commodity futures into true perpetuals by dropping expiration dates. The Defiant covered the first U.S.-regulated bitcoin perpetual futures approval and Kraken and Coinbase bringing perps onshore. None of it names Lighter.

President Donald Trump said on Aug. 20 that CFTC Chairman Michael Selig was working to bring Hyperliquid into the U.S. "in a fully compliant and legal fashion." The Defiant reported at the time that no docket had opened and no registration application had been filed. LIT gained 59.5% over the two weeks that followed.

Hyperliquid's Named PathHyperliquid has a named counterparty with a license. Bloomberg reported on Aug. 31 that Hyperliquid Labs and Payward, Kraken's parent, plan to list crypto perpetual contracts on Bitnomial, a CFTC-registered exchange Payward owns, and that Payward has presented an outline of the arrangement to the agency. U.S. traders would reach the contracts through Bitnomial, with no direct connection to Hyperliquid's venue. No launch date or terms have been announced, and the structure would not give Hyperliquid U.S. exchange status.

Lighter has announced no equivalent arrangement.

Robinhood's Growing ShareRobinhood launched its chain's mainnet on July 1 with perpetual futures inside Robinhood Wallet powered by Lighter, running on a dedicated Lighter instance built for Robinhood Chain that uses USDG as its quote asset. Robinhood committed 11 million LIT to the community and pays Wallet traders double the points they earn on Lighter's own web app. The product excludes users in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Switzerland, the UAE and Singapore.

That instance traded $240 million over 24 hours, $1.735 billion over seven days and $5.205 billion over 30 days, against $5.306 billion since DefiLlama began tracking it on Jul. 20, its data shows. Ninety-eight percent of its lifetime volume came in the past month.

Set against Lighter's totals of $1.416 billion, $11.324 billion and $44.908 billion over the same windows, Robinhood supplied 16.9% of Lighter's volume over 24 hours, 15.3% over seven days and 11.6% over 30 days, per The Defiant's calculation from DefiLlama data. Deposits on the Robinhood instance rose from $10.4 million on Jul. 20 to $57.5 million on Thursday. Lighter's total value locked reached $655.4 million, up 24.9% from $524.6 million on Aug. 5, with open interest at $1.245 billion.

The Defiant reported in July that Robinhood Chain carried more tokenized stock volume than Solana's venues combined, and on Aug. 31 that the chain generated more daily app revenue than Ethereum, at $2.66 million against $1.28 million.

Zero Fees, Thin TakeLighter lists 244 perpetual markets and charged zero maker and taker fees on them, according to its public API. The exchange's own endpoint recorded $1.547 billion of quote volume across 2.03 million trades over 24 hours. BTC accounted for $816.6 million of it, ETH $301.2 million, LIT itself $55.5 million and gold $48.2 million. The HOOD perpetual, tracking Robinhood's own stock, rose 13.3%.

Lighter collected $4.41 million of fees over 30 days, keeping $3.26 million as protocol revenue and directing $2.64 million to token holders. Against $44.908 billion of volume that is a take rate of 0.98 basis points. Hyperliquid earned $68.91 million on $209.814 billion over the same period, or 3.28 basis points, per The Defiant's calculation from DefiLlama data. The Robinhood instance produced $769,998 on $5.205 billion, or 1.48 basis points, monetizing better than Lighter's blended rate.

Lighter buys back LIT with trading fee revenue through daily 24-hour TWAPs and pays stakers a fixed 6% APR with a three-day unstaking lockup, its documentation states. Annualized, the 30-day fee run rate is about $53.7 million against a $4.21 billion fully diluted value.

Hyperliquid remains four to five times larger by every volume measure, at $7.038 billion over 24 hours and $209.814 billion over 30 days, with $13.683 billion of open interest and $6.654 billion of total value locked. Lighter ranks behind Hyperliquid and Aster, which traded $2.465 billion over 24 hours. The Defiant covered Lighter reaching the top of the perp DEX volume table and disclosing a $68 million raise.

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가상자산 LIT는 이더리움 기반으로 발행된 유틸리티 토큰으로, 탈중앙화 영구선물 거래소 라이터(Lighter) 프로토콜에서 스테이킹과 유동성 참여 구조에 활용됩니다. 라이터는 주문서 기반 퍼페추얼 거래를 제공하는 인프라로, 자산은 L1에 예치되고 거래 실행은 L2 환경에서 처리되는 구조를 갖추고 있습니다. 거래량, 오픈 인터레스트 등 주요 지표는 온체인 데이터와 외부 플랫폼을 통해 확인할 수 있으며, 주문 매칭, 포지션 관리, 청산 및 펀딩 레이트 기능을 포함한 파생상품 거래 기능을 제공합니다. LIT 토큰은 스테이킹을 통해 LLP(Lighter Liquidity Pool) 참여 한도를 부여하는 방식으로 사용됩니다. 또한 일정 수량 이상 스테이킹 시 출금 및 전송 수수료 면제와 거래 수수료 혜택이 제공됩니다.

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Large-wallet activity on @Lighter_xyz and @Mantle_Official just hit its highest level in six months, according to on-chain analytics firm @SantimentData. Lighter recorded 86 transactions worth more than $100,000, while Mantle registered 37 such transactions, marking the highest daily whale activity for both tokens in the past six months.

Although whale transaction metrics do not distinguish between buying and selling, they are widely viewed as indicators of heightened activity by large holders, and such spikes often coincide with periods when institutional investors or high-net-worth wallets reposition their portfolios ahead of significant market moves.

$LIT catches a Robinhood catalyst The surge in $LIT whale activity follows a major product integration. @RobinhoodApp Wallet now offers in-app perpetual futures trading, with the engine underneath being @Lighter_xyz, the rising zk-powered perps exchange atop Ethereum. Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 built using Arbitrum's tech stack, went live on public mainnet on July 1, with the Lighter perps integration arriving alongside it. Lighter has committed $11 million of its native $LIT tokens to the Robinhood community as part of the deal, and eligible users earn points on perpetual futures trades on Lighter, converting directly into $LIT, with no fees on perpetuals accessed through Lighter for the first 90 days.

$LIT surged 24% as Robinhood Wallet added Lighter's perpetual futures trading. The token has since climbed further to trade near $2.70, a fresh high. As an exchange based in America with its token issued out of a Delaware C-corp, Lighter has a cleaner path into regulatory approval than offshore-first competitors, adding to the longer-term investment case behind the whale positioning.

$MNT whales accumulate but price stays stuck The picture for @Mantle_Official is more mixed. Whale transaction counts matched the six-month high, yet the price response has been muted. Mantle remains in a broader downtrend, with $MNT trading near $0.43 after failing to reclaim the key $0.57 resistance, and while the RSI has recovered from oversold conditions, momentum remains weak and buyers have yet to confirm a trend reversal.

For $MNT to validate the recent whale activity, the token must first reclaim $0.57, which could pave the way toward $0.94 and eventually $1.08. Mantle continues to benefit from its expanding Layer 2 ecosystem and one of the largest community-controlled treasuries in the crypto market, and ongoing ecosystem development, DeFi incentives, and long-term infrastructure growth may be encouraging whales to accumulate positions while prices remain significantly below previous highs.

For now, the divergence is stark. Lighter has a clear narrative driving price alongside the whale flows. Mantle has the accumulation signal but is still waiting for a price catalyst to match it.

Sources
CoinPedia: Crypto Whales Accumulating Lighter and Mantle
The Block: Robinhood Chain Goes Live with Lighter Perps
Robinhood Newsroom: Robinhood Chain Mainnet Launch

The perpetuals exchange will start burning the LIT it buys with revenue and tap its token reserve to keep staking yields flowing.

Lighter, one of the largest decentralized perpetuals exchanges by trading volume, said it will start permanently burning the LIT tokens it buys back with exchange revenue and will fund staking rewards from its ecosystem token reserve.

Lighter has bought back about 15.5 million LIT — roughly 6.3% of circulating supply — using exchange revenue since its token generation event, the company said in an X post Tuesday. Those tokens will now be withdrawn from the exchange and sent to a burn address on Ethereum mainnet, with the first burn set for the weeks after the end of the second quarter.

Separately, Lighter will begin paying staking rewards from its remaining ecosystem tokens, targeting an initial 6% annualized yield. With about 125 million LIT staked, that yield would distribute roughly 7.5 million LIT a year from a remaining reserve of 250 million.

The changes pull in two directions on supply. Burning bought-back tokens removes them from circulation, while paying staking yield from the reserve releases tokens that were not yet circulating, partly offsetting the burns. The update also answers requests from holders for clarity on what happens to the LIT the protocol repurchases, a recurring question across perpetuals exchanges that run buybacks.

Lighter briefly overtook Hyperliquid in monthly perpetuals volume around its December launch, when airdrop incentives pulled traders to its zero-fee order book. Activity has since cooled as those incentives wound down, which puts more weight on whether the token's economics can sustain demand on their own.

LIT rose about 2% over 24 hours and is up roughly 20% over the past week and about 39% over the past 30 days, outpacing Bitcoin, which fell almost 3% over the past day and about 20% over the past month, according to CoinGecko. The token trades near $1.84, about 77% below its record high. Its market capitalization is around $461 million; its fully diluted valuation, which counts the full one billion token supply against the 250 million now circulating, is roughly $1.84 billion.

Buybacks Become BurnsLighter had been buying LIT on the open market with exchange revenue since its token launch at the end of December, but had not committed to destroying the tokens. It said Tuesday that the buybacks will now reduce supply permanently through burns, executed by sending LIT to an Ethereum burn address.

The exchange flagged one mechanical caveat: the tokens it burns may be undistributed LIT rather than the exact tokens it repurchased, an approach it said is economically equivalent for holders and cheaper to administer.

The buybacks are funded by trading activity. Lighter has generated about $2.87 million in protocol revenue over the past 30 days and roughly $53 million since launch, according to DefiLlama.

Continued Exchange RevenueThe burn program depends on continued exchange revenue to fund the buybacks, and revenue has been modest relative to the token's valuation.

Funding staking from the 250 million-token reserve also draws down a finite pool; that reserve could deplete faster if revenue weakens or staking participation climbs, and the 6% target is not fixed.

Lighter said it will execute the first burn in the weeks after the close of the second quarter, a milestone holders will be able to verify onchain.

Staking Shifts to the ReserveLighter launched its staking program in January and has distributed about 3.72 million LIT to stakers so far, including roughly 170,000 LIT from a fee-credits program.

Those rewards were bootstrapped with pre-launch revenue while exchange income was directed entirely toward buybacks. Effective immediately, the protocol will instead draw on ecosystem tokens, which it said is a more aligned use because the rewards flow to holders with the longest time horizons.

The targeted 6% yield is denominated in LIT and can be adjusted at the team's discretion based on market conditions, protocol performance and sustainability, Lighter said. At about 125 million LIT staked, roughly half of circulating supply is committed to the program.

Lighter laid out four priorities for managing its treasury going forward: rewarding long-term stakers, reducing supply through burns, preserving tokens for future partnerships and growth programs, and stewarding the reserve for long-term value. The company said its ecosystem tokens exist to grow the protocol, deepen liquidity and reward users.