Welcome to Lighter
Lighter is a perpetual contract trading protocol that introduces a scalable, secure, transparent, unmanaged, and verifiable order book trading infrastructure into the Ethereum ecosystem. As an application-specific zk-rollup, it utilizes advanced cryptographic techniques and data structures. Lighter significantly enhances the security and fairness of order book transactions through its verifiable matching engine, ensuring scalable and efficient market price discovery. As a result, Lighter lays the foundation for creating new, high-performance, and secure digital trading platforms.



