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A leading compliant platform announced that the perpetual contract trading protocol Lighter (LIGHTER) is about to reach an important milestone—after meeting liquidity conditions, spot trading will be launched on its platform. This rollout plan will initially cover regions supporting the LIGHTER-USD trading pair.
Lighter, as an innovative infrastructure within the Ethereum ecosystem, leverages its scalable, non-custodial, and fully verifiable order book trading architecture to open new possibilities in DeFi trading. Compared to traditional AMM models, the order book mechanism can offer more flexible pricing and deeper liquidity, which is quite attractive to active traders.
From an ecosystem perspective, this launch represents ongoing innovation in the trading infrastructure layer of the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem. The support for spot trading by Lighter is expected to further enrich Ethereum users' trading options and expand the imagination space for on-chain applications of perpetual contract protocols.