Lighter ($LIT) – Altcoin Review

Hello fam, hope the new year is going well. Today we are going to talk about a project that has been in hype recently. Lighter didn’t take long to get noticed. A zero-fee, on-chain perp DEX is going to turn heads no matter what. But the real question is whether it holds up once the hype fades. That answer largely comes down to LIT, the native token, and how the incentives are wired.

Below is a straight, no-fluff breakdown of how LIT is structured, why it matters, and where Lighter actually sits compared to other perp DEX heavyweights.

Fixed Supply, Simple Math

LIT has a hard cap of 1 billion tokens. No emissions, no surprise inflation later. That already puts it ahead of many perp tokens that quietly dilute users over time.

The split is clean:

• 50% community & ecosystem
• 50% insiders (team + investors)

 

On the community side:

• 25% (250M LIT) already distributed via early points campaigns and airdrops
• 25% reserved for future incentives, liquidity programs, partnerships, and user growth

 

On the insider side:

• 26% team
• 24% investors

 

Both insider allocations come with a 1-year cliff followed by 3 years of linear vesting. Translation: no

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