Lighter has pulled back the curtain on its LIT token, outlining how the asset will power its ecosystem, who will receive supply at launch, and where the project wants to take its trading infrastructure next.
How LIT Works
The team frames LIT as an infrastructure token that ties incentives together for traders, liquidity providers, developers, and institutional users on Lighter.
All economic value generated by Lighter’s products, including fees from its perpetual DEX, will be routed back to LIT holders through on-chain revenue sharing and protocol-level buybacks.
LIT will also sit inside Lighter’s data and pricing stack. Validators and data providers stake the token to secure market feeds and validation services. At the same time, clients pay in LIT for access to those feeds, creating a loop between usage and token demand.
Over time, the team wants LIT to become the coordination layer for new products that plug into Lighter’s infrastructure, from advanced order types to institutional connectivity.
Airdrop Design and Roadmap After the Token Launch
Lighter has adopted an even 50–50 split between ecosystem allocation and internal stakeholders. Half of the total supply goes to community-facing initiatives, including airdrops, liquidity incentives, and future growth programs, while the other half goes to the team and investors.
At token generation, 25% of the total supply unlocks immediately for users who earned points in the first two seasons of Lighter’s program in 2025, with the tokens distributed directly to their wallets instead of a separate claim process.
Another 25% of the total supply sits in reserve for future incentives, keeping dry powder available for later growth pushes. Inside the internal bucket, 26% of the supply goes to the team and 24% to investors, both subject to a one-year cliff followed by a three-year linear vesting schedule.
The roadmap includes deeper derivatives features, a mobile trading experience, and upgrades to its prediction and analytics stack that rely on LIT for fees and staking.
The project also plans to publish transparent on-chain revenue dashboards so holders can track how protocol income flows into ecosystem development and buybacks in real time. For traders who spent 2025 farming points and speculating on timelines, the LIT reveal finally shows how their activity converts into a long-term claim on Lighter’s growth rather than a one-off reward cycle.
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