{"id":51965,"date":"2025-10-09T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=51965"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:01:53","slug":"lighter-tvl-up-2000x-in-6-months-is-this-perp-dex-the-missing-link-in-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=51965","title":{"rendered":"Lighter TVL Up 2000X In 6 Months: Is This Perp DEX The Missing Link In Ethereum?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Until recently, most developers viewed the Ethereum mainnet as this unscalable yet irresistibly attractive layer on which it was impossible to launch a functional perpetual DEX. Ethereum has everything. It is the second most valuable network after Bitcoin and the first smart contracts platform. After dYdX, there has been no other major perpetual DEX on Ethereum until Lighter took over from Q3 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lighter is moving numbers; big numbers taking on top centralized exchanges, and soon Binance. As of October 9, Lighter generated over $8.5Bn in trading volume in 24 hours. On this platform, traders are placing leveraged positions. Cumulatively, there is over $2.2Bn in open interest placed on 91 different pairs, some enabling the trading of some of the <\/span>best cryptos to buy<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(Source: <\/span>Coingecko<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

As expected, over 50% of all trading volume is associated with Bitcoin, while 20% is from the ETH USDC pair. Although BNB crypto is the third most valuable crypto when writing, traders are placing more HYPE and SOL trades than BNB.<\/span><\/p>\n

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