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Toncoin ($TON) has been renamed to Gram ($GRAM), effective today. This is a rebrand only and does not affect the underlying market. The update will be reflected across the Lighter frontend and backend later today.

On the API side, updates will now be delivered as GRAM, while the market ID remains unchanged. No action is required.

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Weekly Product Updates

Trading — What's New
• Atomic Orders — build a basket of markets to long/short, then execute the entire trade in a single transaction. Available now under Advanced Orders
• Advanced TWAP Orders — randomization, execution style (passive/neutral/aggressive), slice frequency, and more. Available now under Advanced Orders > TWAP
• Chase Limit Orders
• Desktop App — now available at https://lighter.xyz/lighter-apps

Note: order types other than Atomic Orders require the browser to remain open while the order is active.

RWAs
• Reminder: the $SPACEX market settles at mark price and switches to reduce-only after market close on June 18, 2026 20:00 UTC
• Cross Margin is now enabled for $SPCX

Integrations
• lit-hub.org is live — explore the Lighter ecosystem, discover integrations, and see how builders are using Lighter across trading, infrastructure, and data dashboards <https://lit-hub.org>
• Metascalp — metascalp.io

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Weekly Product Updates

Since TGE, the Lighter protocol has programmatically bought back 15MM $LIT tokens, representing 6% of the circulating supply: https://x.com/Lighter_xyz/status/2067246841247269018

Trading - What's New
• Multi-Layout Charts have been enabled
• Strategies now support spot markets

RWA Challenge - Competition Updates
• The competition ends on Wednesday, June 24. There's still time to climb the leaderboard and secure your spot. So far, the most actively traded markets have been $XAU, $EURUSD, $WTI, $XAG, and $SKHYNIX. Good luck in the final stretch!
• We've identified accounts that attempted to exploit the competition scoring formula. These accounts have been disqualified and removed from the leaderboard. If you believe your account was flagged in error, please open a support ticket and we'll review your case.

Integrations
- Jesse Trade is now live: https://jesse.trade/
- Hummingbot is now live: https://hummingbot.org/

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New RWA Perp Listing – you can now trade:

$SOXL at 20x leverage

X post: https://x.com/lighter_xyz/status/2069452615574860006

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New RWA Perp Listing – you can now trade:

$MINIMAX at 10x leverage

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New RWA Perp Listing – you can now trade:

$ZHIPU at 10x leverage

X post: https://x.com/lighter_xyz/status/2069592866444149068

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New Listing – you can now trade:

$CAP (Pre-Launch) at 3x leverage

X post: https://x.com/lighter_xyz/status/2069906925538394246

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The RWA Challenge — Final Results

The competition officially ended at 11:59 PM UTC on June 24th.

Big thanks to everyone who took part. Competition was tight across both leaderboards from start to finish. Congrats to the winners!

🏆 ROI Leaderboard — Top 3

🥇 0x2Fd4...8c71
ROI: 1,050%
Score: 7,772.76
Prize: 10,000 LIT

🥈 0xE759...7104
ROI: 1,448%
Score: 7,611.37
Prize: 5,000 LIT

🥉 0x3859...5bBd
ROI: 937%
Score: 4,981.27
Prize: 2,500 LIT

🏆 PnL Leaderboard — Top 3

🥇 0x3f97...08d8
PnL: $175,853.45
Score: 571,296,910.14
Prize: 10,000 LIT

🥈 0x5fF9...92ce
PnL: $115,211.53
Score: 124,455,698.18
Prize: 5,000 LIT

🥉 0x8381...Cc75
PnL: $60,389.74
Score: 63,508,340.94
Prize: 2,500 LIT

All traders in the top 100 of each leaderboard will receive their LIT rewards accordingly.

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New RWA Perp Listing – you can now trade:

$BB at 10x leverage

X post: https://x.com/lighter_xyz/status/2070500157838221535

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Story Protocol ($IP) has been renamed to Data Network ($DATA). This is a rebrand only and does not affect the underlying market. The update will be reflected across the Lighter frontend and backend tomorrow, June 30, at 11:00 AM UTC.

On the API side, updates will be delivered as DATA starting at that time, while the market ID remains unchanged. No action is required.

https://x.com/datafdn/status/2070180640251666788

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End of Q2 Investor Call

Join our founder, Vladimir Novakovski, this Thursday, July 2, at 2:30 PM UTC for a Q2 update and Q&A session. The recording will also be posted afterwards.

If you would like to join, fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYOEwgapCbC3OEjphLygqmooWE1o5GEiphdiaF9FXAHWNN3Q/viewform

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Robinhood Wallet users can now trade perps and Stocks Tokens directly through Lighter on Robinhood Chain!

X post: https://x.com/lighter_xyz/status/2072394977729040722

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New RWA Perp Listing – you can now trade:

$WEN at 10x leverage

X post: https://x.com/lighter_xyz/status/2074491956856537571

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We will be performing a network upgrade on July 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC. Expected downtime is under 20 minutes.

Please manage your positions in advance, as order placement will be unavailable during the upgrade.

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Today we will be burning ~15.5M LIT, which is the amount of tokens programmatically bought back through the end of Q2 2026.

We will post the Ethereum transaction hash once completed.

X post: https://x.com/lighter_xyz/status/2075667529301630986

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New Perp Listing – you can now trade:

$FOLKS at 3x leverage

X post: https://x.com/lighter_xyz/status/2077064425563963400

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We will be performing a network upgrade on July 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC. Expected downtime is under 20 minutes.

Please manage your positions in advance, as order placement will be unavailable during the upgrade.

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Upcoming Product Updates

The following changes will take effect on Monday, July 20 at 8:00 AM UTC.

• Funding rate premiums for RWA markets will be reduced by 50%
• Funding rate premiums for pre-IPO markets will be reduced by 99%
• The base funding rate remains unchanged at 0.32 bps/hour
• The index price of all crypto perpetuals will now be denominated in USDT

Note: This is a denomination change only. All deposits, withdrawals, and settlements remain in USDC.