@vnovakovski himself has referred to it as an "on-chain Robinhood" model at times, and in the industry, there's a strong view that Lighter is a perp DEX backed/supported by Robinhood.
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@JeicxzDTeach No one is perfect... He may be a champion, but when a crisis hits, he loses his composure... Still, he’s already conquered every challenge, and this was his final one. Let’s give him a round of applause.
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Some intern notes from the @lighter_xyz EVM Q&A with @theyisun from @axiom_xyz, moderated by @guywuolletjr
> Lighter EVM acts as a programmable atomic proxy between Ethereum and Lighter's core matching engine
> Lighter Core and EVM run separate sequencers side-by-side with low-latency sync communication between them. They share the same balance sheet, so that positions, collateral, liquidity are unified across both
> At launch: sync reads from Lighter exchange state, async writes (sub-second). Full sync writes will be enabled at a later stage
> Developers can use standard Solidity / EVM tooling. Interoperability with Lighter's order book will happen through pre-compiles and pre-deploys: e.g. place orders, cancel orders, manage positions, create sub-accounts
> ZK verification uses @axiom_xyz's OpenVM (a ZkVM) as a sidecar to Lighter's existing custom circuits. Both settle together on Ethereum via a single ZK proof
> The security model mirrors Lighter Core, with zk-verified state transitions, state diffs posted in blobs on ethereum, force-inclusion transactions, and an escape hatch where users can prove their state and retrieve their collateral
> FIFO transaction ordering is preserved by the EVM. Encrypted sequencing, so that the sequencer can't see transaction contents, is being researched
> Hints at cctp route on the EVM, layer zero integration for cross-chain bridging
> Some apps PoCs : vaults (basis trades, RWA synthetics, curated strategies), permissionless markets with on-chain oracle settlement, prediction markets, lending/borrowing
> @Tarunchitra shared a good point on commodity basis trades (e.g. gold, silver), with lighter being the first on-chain venue where you could execute both legs in sync
> Anything needing HFT-level latency (liquidations, market making) is kept on Core. Structured products, vaults, and the likes will be able to leverage the EVM
@qpe Your thinking is really foolish. These people are risking their lives to lose weight, game after game... Yet you're wasting your time spouting nonsense.
@trailojg Both matches will end 3-0. No matter how well they perform in the laning phase, there’s just too big a difference in game management. The gap between leagues—excluding the LCK and LPL—is enormous.
@JackyGekko@Lighter_xyz Market makers are pouring in, snapping up short positions and stirring up trouble.
The TGE is their playground, where they seize control and begin their game.
so someone really tried to jelly Lighter with $ARC huh, $6.4M TWAP long trying to drain the LLP (but maybe it was actually an attack on the $LIT token). didn't work
here's the difference, on Hyperliquid, HLP blindly inherited the toxic position and validators had to manually settle at an arbitrary price
on Lighter, the liquidation engine hits the book first, LLP has a hard insolvency check and won't absorb positions that would make it insolvent, and if worst comes to worst ADL socializes losses automatically, like no emergency committee, no arbitrary prices, no manual override. zk circuits enforce the rules, segmented pools contain the blast radius, position privacy blocks reconnaissance and so on
jelly worked on HL because of single insurance pool + no solvency checks + centralized override. Lighter eliminates all three by design. someone literally stress-tested it today and the system just handled it