Social trading apps command high margins, especially compared to the cost of capital for bridging / mint / redeem type flows
Can't let capacity or scaling issues get in the way of viral growth! And the beauty of noncustodial architecture is that you can choose between all available bridge/swap paths as needed
study aggregation theory
Introducing the fastest crosschain swaps on the market. Crosschain transactions on @fomo now land in <1s.
A week ago, we rolled out our own internal bridge to a small % of users.
Public rollout of fomo bridge begins now.
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Lighter EVM devnet is live! An EVM-equivalent rollup built in collaboration with @axiom_xyz, powered by OpenVM. It runs alongside Lighter Core, and the two are designed to settle jointly to Ethereum with a single ZK proof 🧵
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figuring out who the actual experts are is a very important skill for life
What was the economic incentive to solve any of the OpenAI problems?
Meanwhile ECDLP has had over 3k researchers with 800+ published papers, and it never stopped. There are yearly conferences held to discuss failed attempts at breaking ECDLP, so people can learn from each other and try to break it better.
The NSA is the world's greatest hirer of mathematicians. They got caught trying to backdoor Discrete Logarithm systems three times. The last being caught in 2015.
After each one, waves of the most competent cryptographers scoured for new attacks. Most things that improve attacks by like 10% are really the same things that make implementations of EC operations faster.
Theres armies of people, on the latest frontier models, making their cryptography blazingly fast, like us @ZakuraZcash. You see open research projects constantly improve the state of the art.
No human or AI has had any elliptic curve speedup approaching even a 2x, yet folks are freaking out that cryptography is broken?
The OpenAI problems being broken is not remotely the same as ECDLP having a real improving attack.
Even if there was an attack, its insane to imagine it becomes "Break ECDLP on your laptop". It would go from "impossible" to "possible with all the world's GPU's dedicated for a decade", to "possible with 1 year".
Any of those is a real warning shot to go trigger the ECC freeze.
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[ ZOOMER ]
CITRINI RESEARCH PUBLISHES ARTICLE ON INTERSECTION BETWEEN AGENTIC AI AND CRYPTO, ALONGSIDE THEIR INVESTMENT BASKET: BLOG
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$LIT is now accessible to investors through the world’s first Lighter staking ETP, launched by Bitwise in Europe.
We're pleased to announce the launch of the Bitwise Lighter Staking ETP, the world's first exchange-traded product providing exposure to ethereum:0x232ce3bd40fcd6f80f3d55a522d03f25df784ee2.
Lighter: a decentralised perpetual futures exchange built on @ethereum. LIT is its governance and staking token.
Thankful to the @Lighter_xyz community, and grateful for the chance to provide mainstream access to LIT.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒.
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pretty cool project, does a good job of surfacing as much onchain data as possible without overwhelming the trader
cryexc is now the top zero-fee integrator on @Lighter_xyz
$10m in the last 7 days alone
trade from the chart, then grade and review it in the journal right after
everything from one single tab, free and client side
onwards
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pretty cool tool from the team at defillama. looks at the book before a $10k market order, calculates expected slippage, checks the actual fills, then adds taker fees. actual execution cost has been debated at length and i dont think it is a +ev thing to debate anymore. but something worth noting is that lighter was built to ensure retail got the best price possible on a trade. as this metric from defillama shows, users on average receive a slightly better fill than the book implied. this is something we are very proud of. our slippage is still higher than we would like, but the all-in cost remains competitive. we want users to have the best possible trading experience, and we want builders to be able to offer that same experience to their users. we recently open sourced lighter-ts, which gives them a quicker path to offering best in class perps. from there, they can focus on serving their users and growing their own business.
Why track this?
We started by tracking orderbook liquidity, but realized that due to mechanisms such as speed preferences, in many cases orders wouldnt execute as expected, as MMs would pull liq right before
So we set out to track the real liquidity
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Great metric!
On Lighter, your fill price is (on average) better than expected
We just created a new metric for exchanges: realized perp slippage
1. We take a snapshot of the orderbook right before market orders execute
2. Calculate the slippage at which it should fill ($0.94 on Binance)
3. Compare against actual slippage on the fill (actually $1.63)
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I was looking over some Litscan data for the two Lighter instances and found some arbs lying around, so I thought I would open source a basic arb bot to take advantage of it. Details below
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despite their best attempts to mislead you and hide the fact they're advertising kalshi's lowest fee tier, they're still more expensive than @Lighter_xyz
🚮 🚮 🚮
Kalshi Prime offers the lowest execution cost for GOLD perps (all-in: slippage + fees)
✅ 80% cheaper than Hyperliquid
✅ 47% cheaper than Binance
👉 DM me if you want 0.01% taker / 0.0% maker fees (disclosures below)
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we have found out that asking a small team to build a full perp frontend from an SDK is still a pretty big lift, even with ai. we just open sourced lighter-ts, which gives builders the state, websocket pipeline, trading math, utilities, and types needed to build on Lighter. it should remove a lot of the hard work. the goal is to make integrations much faster. would love feedback from anyone building wallets, bots, or trading apps.
Lighter is becoming more open and easier to build on!
Developers can now use our shared trading core to create their own interfaces, apps, and trading experiences without starting from scratch, for free.
github.com/elliottech/lighte…
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this was a pretty good watchlist:
-lighter
-unit
-variational
-fomo
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LongX with @Lighter_xyz under the hood is going to expand value at scale and bring our technical moat to a completely new level.
This is the closest thing to becoming an exchange that also is issuing new tokenized stocks.
time to expand maybe even tmr.
think bigger.
LONG.
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we will look back on the (mostly) graceful wind down of EF preeminence as a key turning point for Ethereum and ETH
a massive change which only a few will understand the significance of
not because it was a bad institution, but because it was simply TOO preeminent and it inadvertently promoted a monoculture in R&D which focused too much on theory instead of users and the market
what is happening now is actual, REAL subtraction. a real and healthy abdication of formal & informal authority which will enhance the decentralization of the Ethereum ecosystem
thanks for those who worked at the EF over the years to help Ethereum, and to all of those who keep working on it both there and elsewhere
but we are officially exiting the cathedral and entering the bazaar
and what i believe will be the most exciting and eventful epoch in Ethereum's history
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