Lighter raised $68 M in a new round of funding on 2025-11-10.

According to media reports, Lighter raised $68 M in a new round of funding on 2025-11-10. the investors in this funding round include Founders fund,Ribbit Capital,Haun Ventures,Robinhood and others. Following this round, Lighter has raised a total of $68 M, bringing its latest valuation to $1 B.

Lighter is a perpetual trading protocol that introduces a scalable, secure, transparent, non-custodial, and verifiable order book trading infrastructure within the Ethereum ecosystem. As an application-specific zk-rollup, it employs advanced cryptographic techniques and data structures. Lighter significantly improves the security and fairness of order book trading with its verifiable matching engine, ensuring scalable and efficient market price discovery. Thus, Lighter lays the groundwork for creating new, high-performance, and secure digital trading platforms.