Lighter updates: new perps, trading competitions, and features

Weekly Update

Product Updates

• Lighter has discontinued the legacy Solana bridge.
• Binary options now support 1-hour markets, with 15m and 1h tabs and enhanced price source information.
• A new Market Sessions chart indicator has been introduced, resetting daily session highs and lows.
• Collateral setting changes now require confirmation and provide an update notification.
• Margin mode restrictions now include explanations and links to further information.
• New Perp Listing: $XTEN (Extended) on Lighter Core at 5x leverage.
• New Perp Listings on Lighter on Robinhood Chain: $UNI at 15x leverage, and $LINK, $AAVE, $XMR, and $TRX at 10x leverage.

Integrators

• VOOI has launched an RWA trading competition on Lighter on Robinhood Chain with a prize pool of up to $10,000.
• Jumper has introduced Jumper Perps, enabling perpetual trading aggregation for users.
• BRIX has partnered exclusively with Lighter to facilitate onchain trading for institutional desks from non-US markets.
• tradeXYZD has launched a 14-day trading competition on Lighter on Robinhood Chain, offering $10K in rewards for eligible Plus and Premium traders.

Post Highlights

• Vlad's Podcast with Jack Niewold discusses Lighter's origins, major bets, and the future of on-chain finance at TOKEN2049.
• Vlad's Interview with Coinage features his latest insights.
• The Rollup discusses the ongoing boom in onchain derivatives.
• ENSv2 allows Lighter users with an ENS name to claim an NFT as part of their upgrade.
• AWS Announcement details Lighter's latest updates regarding AWS.