Lighter, a prominent decentralized perpetual exchange platform, has announced its flagship $LIT token. The launch of the Lighter Infrastructure Token ($LIT) denotes a key milestone in Lighter’s mission to develop a cutting-edge financial infrastructure. As per Lighter’s official X announcement, the development is set to position $LIT as Lighter’s primary mechanism to align incentives across investors, institutions, developers, and traders. Hence, $LIT will play a notable role in bridging conventional finance with next-gen DeFi.

We are announcing the Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT)! Lighter is building infrastructure for the future of finance and the native token is key to aligning incentives. In this thread, we will describe the structure of the token, broader vision, and roadmap of use cases.

Lighter is launching the Lighter Infrastructure Token ($LIT) to deliver advanced finance infrastructure. Hence, the value coming from Lighter’s services and products will completely accrue to those holding $LIT tokens. This makes the token a core element of the economic model of the platform. Lighter is directly issuing the project on its C-Corp entity, improving regulatory clarity and maintaining transparency while aligning across stakeholders.

Additionally, the platform will also track revenues on-chain, permitting consumers to autonomously validate value flows. At the same time, the revenue that the perpetual exchange and future services and products will produce will be officially allocated between token buybacks and growth initiatives. In this respect, Lighter emerges as a long-term builder that endeavors to enhance sustainable value instead of short-term gains.

Apart from that, the supply of the $LIT token will be split equally between the team+investors and the ecosystem. On the ecosystem side, twenty-five percent will immediately move toward airdrops dealing with Points Seasons 1 and 2. They reportedly ran through this year, generating 12.5M points. The rest of the 25% will go to reserve for upcoming points seasons, growth initiatives, and partnerships. Along with that, the investor and team tokens require 1-year lockup and a follow-up 3-year linear vesting.

According to Lighter, $LIT underpins its wider vision for a next-gen infrastructure that merges DeFi and TradFi. The $LIT holders will be permitted to reach financial products to get risk-adjusted returns. Additionally, verification and transfer execution will run through tiered mechanism, with increased decentralization levels unlocked via $LIT staking. Ultimately, $LIT is poised to boost the long-term roadmap of Ligther toward a relatively verifiable, transparent, and efficient system.

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