Lighter releases mobile app for iOS and Android, bringing perps and RWAs to handheld devices and launching 100,000 LIT mobile-exclusive trading competition starting Jan 15

Lighter, a decentralized derivatives and multi-asset exchange built on custom zero-knowledge rollup infrastructure, has launched its Lighter Mobile app for both iOS and Android, bringing its full product set—including perpetual futures, spot markets, real‑world assets (RWAs) and pre‑market listings—to handheld devices. According to the project’s announcement, the team is pairing the release with a 100,000 LIT mobile‑exclusive trading competition starting January 15, aimed at driving early adoption and liquidity on the new mobile front end. The app functions as a non-custodial mobile interface: users connect their own wallets and can access live market data, prices, funding information, liquidity metrics and other trading signals in a streamlined mobile layout. Lighter positions itself as a fully verifiable perp DEX and multi‑asset venue built as a zero‑knowledge rollup on top of Ethereum, generating ZK proofs for operations such as order matching and liquidations while inheriting Ethereum security and composability. By extending this infrastructure to mobile in more than 100 countries and regions on iOS and distributing via Google Play on Android, the project is attempting to make on‑chain derivatives and RWA trading more accessible to everyday users who primarily trade on phones. The mobile‑only 100,000 LIT campaign underscores how critical mobile usage is for crypto trading volumes and provides an incentive for existing desktop users to test the app’s performance, latency and UX in a real trading environment. For the broader ecosystem, the launch reflects a continued push by DEXs and zk-rollup projects to compete with centralized exchanges on user experience—particularly in perps and synthetic RWA markets—while keeping settlement and verification on public blockchains.

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