Overview
- Lighter distributed 25% of LIT’s total supply to early users by converting 12.5 million points, with third-party estimates putting the airdrop’s value near $675 million and on-chain data indicating most recipients are holding.
- Total supply is split evenly between ecosystem programs and insiders, with team and investor allocations locked for one year and then vesting linearly over three years.
- DefiLlama data shows Lighter at roughly $200 billion in 30-day perpetuals volume, ahead of Aster and Hyperliquid, though Hyperliquid still led on the latest 24-hour metric.
- LIT began trading around $2.6 per CoinGecko and secured a Coinbase spot listing, while Bybit listed LIT perpetuals for derivatives traders.
- The token underpins staking-based access tiers, fee payments and market-data verification, is issued by a U.S. C‑Corp, and features publicly trackable revenues that may fund growth or discretionary buybacks.