Lighter

Loracle

2026-09-08 23:54:52

Loracle asks Robinhood CEO to help add liquidity to PONS/USDG on Lighter

Loracle said on X that it wants Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev to coordinate market makers to add liquidity to the PONS/USDG market on Lighter. The request comes after Loracle had already set up a related trading vault on Lighter and used an off-chain keeper to execute trades. Loracle said the market had quickly reached the safety open-interest limit it set, so the vault would build its position gradually from here. Data cited from Hyperbot shows Loracle still holds a roughly 27.75 million PONS 3x short position. That position is valued at about $21.77 million, with floating losses of more than $3.3 million. The post centers on liquidity conditions in the PONS/USDG market and the pace at which Loracle can continue building exposure under its own risk limits.

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Lighter

2026-09-08 01:22:17

Lighter says it has bought back 17.5 million LIT, equal to 7% of circulating supply

Lighter said in a post on X that its protocol has repurchased 17.5 million LIT tokens through programmatic buybacks since its token generation event, or TGE. According to the statement, that amount represents 7% of the token’s circulating supply. The update was reported by Odaily under the technology category. No further details on the buyback mechanism, timing breakdown, or related treasury data were disclosed in the source material.

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Lighter

2026-09-04 03:00:49

Lighter Says August OI Tops $1B as Trading Volume Reaches About $39.5B

ChainCatcher reported that a Lighter team member published the project’s August data recap. In August, Lighter’s open interest topped $1 billion and trading volume reached about $39.5 billion. The team also said Lighter’s share of global perpetual contract volume continued to rise month over month. A separate trading platform built in partnership with Robinhood recorded about $5 billion in volume, more than 21,000 accounts, and roughly $500,000 in total trading fees. Lighter also repurchased 927,800 LIT during the month. OKX showed Lighter at 4.42 USDT, up more than 15.16% in 24 hours.

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Lighter

2026-09-04 02:59:45

Lighter Repurchases 927,800 LIT in August, LIT Surges Over 15% in 24 Hours

Lighter released its August data summary. Open interest surpassed $1 billion, trading volume reached approximately $39.5 billion, and its market share in global perpetual contract trading volume continued to rise month-over-month. The independent trading platform built in collaboration with Robinhood also saw significant growth in August, with total trading volume of about $5 billion, over 21,000 accounts, and total transaction fees of approximately $500,000 for the month. Additionally, Lighter repurchased a total of 927,800 LIT in August. According to OKX, LIT is currently trading at $4.42, up over 15.16% in 24 hours.

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Lighter

2026-09-03 23:33:47

Lighter’s LIT Leads Perp DEX Token Gains as Robinhood Flow and U.S. Regulatory Bets Drive Attention

Perpetual DEX tokens have outperformed bitcoin over the past month, with Lighter’s LIT posting the strongest gains in the group covered by The Defiant. The move has been tied to trader positioning around a possible U.S. regulatory opening, even though no public filing, CFTC docket, or exchange registration application has linked Lighter to that process. At the same time, broad trading activity across perpetual DEXs has weakened, with DefiLlama showing average daily volume down 30.13% over the past seven days to $20.85 billion. What can be measured more clearly is order flow tied to Robinhood. Lighter powers perpetual futures inside Robinhood Wallet on Robinhood Chain through a dedicated instance that uses USDG as its quote asset, and that venue has supplied a meaningful share of Lighter’s recent volume growth. The product is unavailable to users in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Switzerland, the UAE, and Singapore. The report also contrasts Lighter with Hyperliquid, which has a named route involving Bitnomial and Payward, Kraken’s parent, but notes that Lighter has announced no comparable arrangement. Fee data show Lighter running a far thinner take rate than Hyperliquid despite rapid volume growth and a near doubling in LIT over 30 days.

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Robinhood Cha

2026-09-03 02:00:12

Robinhood Chain Has No Token Yet. UNI, LIT, MORPHO and ARB Are the Names Tied to Its Growth

Robinhood Chain has emerged as one of the fastest-growing public blockchains just two months after launch, with DEX volume topping $1.5 billion on Sept. 1 and total value locked climbing to nearly $800 million from less than $100 million at inception. Because the network has not issued a native token, attention has shifted to the protocols that process its trading flow, power its lending activity, or provide the infrastructure underneath it. According to the source article by Asher on MarsBit, Uniswap is taking the largest share of on-chain spot activity after Robinhood integrated Uniswap V2, V3, and V4 as the chain’s main public liquidity venue. That has fed protocol revenue and, after the UNIfication proposal went live at the end of 2025, ongoing UNI burns funded by protocol fees. Lighter, embedded directly into Robinhood Wallet as the perpetual futures entry point, is linked to LIT through revenue sharing and buybacks. Morpho supplies the lending rails for Robinhood Earn, though its protocol fee switch remains off, limiting direct value capture for MORPHO. Arbitrum, meanwhile, receives a slice of Robinhood Chain’s net revenue through its expansion program, but that income does not currently flow through to ARB holders via buybacks or burns.

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Lighter

2026-09-03 03:22:31

Lighter Surges Over 10% in 24 Hours to Record High, Fueled by Robinhood Deep Integration and Policy Tailwinds

Lighter's price jumped over 10% in the past 24 hours to $3.84, an all-time high, according to market data. The rally is supported by the project's active role in shaping U.S. crypto-friendly policies and its deep integration with the popular Robinhood chain.

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Robinhood Cha

2026-09-02 01:59:38

Robinhood Chain, tokenized stocks and selective crypto buying dominate ChainFeeds market briefing

ChainFeeds’ Sept. 2 research briefing pulled together several market threads that are increasingly overlapping across crypto and traditional finance. A large part of the discussion focused on Robinhood Chain, where activity around Lighter, PONS, stock tokens and meme-coin launchpads is creating multiple, separate paths for value capture rather than a single native-chain bet. The report also examined how offshore perpetual products tied to Korean equities have expanded rapidly, with cumulative volume from February to August 2026 reaching about KRW 307 trillion and August alone hitting KRW 166 trillion. Another section argued that parts of the crypto market may now offer an attractive selective buying window, especially for assets whose prices have collapsed while fundamentals have held up better. The final piece looked at a new onchain experiment in which meme coins are being paired directly with tokenized U.S. stocks such as NVDA, TSLA, SPY and HIMS, creating liquidity pools that some traders hope could tighten available tokenized supply. Taken together, the briefing shows a market paying closer attention to infrastructure, fee capture, tradable tokenized exposure and the conditions under which capital may return to digital assets.

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