Lighter DEX launches LIT token with a major 25% airdrop, distributing tokens to early users who accumulated points in 2025.
The Layer 2 DEX is a decentralized exchange based on Ethereum and revolves around perpetual contracts and has quickly become one of the leading decentralized trading platforms.
The crypto market rose 1.12% over the last 24 hours, rebounding from a recent low.
LIT Airdrop Marks Key Milestone for Lighter DEX
The airdrop immediately converted 12.5 million user-earned points into LIT tokens, representing one-fourth of the project’s fully diluted token supply.
This initial allocation rewards the community and gives the initial impetus to the native token ecosystem of Lighter DEX.
Although the market excitement was high, the price of LIT plummeted by 30% just after its launch, stabilizing at around 2.45.
The remaining 25% of the ecosystem allocation will be used for future points seasons and, to a lesser degree, partnerships and growth initiatives. The team and investors all have a 1-year unlock and 3-year linear vesting after. The breakdown is 26% team, 24% investor.
— Lighter (@Lighter_xyz) December 30, 2025
The analysts blame the fall on the normal sell-offs of the post-airdrop along with speculative selling during the first few hours of the trade.
Balanced Tokenomics and Structured Vesting Plan
The LIT token supply has an equal split of 50% to the ecosystem and the remaining half to the team and investors. According to Lighter DEX, the ecosystem component will finance future rewards, alliances, and protocol extensions.
One-year team and investor commitments are fixed, and another three-year linear vesting plan. The long-term strategy will align the incentives of all the stakeholders, hence less pressure on short-term sales.
In contrast to the conventional governance accessories, LIT is actively involved in the operation of the platform. Staking LIT opens up more enhanced trading and provable levels of execution. These will grow as Lighter DEX goes decentralized and increase the utility of LIT of higher stakes.
Valuation Debate as LIT Enters the Market
Premarket trading put LIT at approximately $3.20, implying a fully diluted value of over three billion dollars.
Prediction platforms, nevertheless, are not unanimous as to whether LIT will be able to retain or exceed this valuation in the near future.=
The average weekly trading volume of Lighter DEX has been more than 2.7 billion, with Hyperliquid and Aster coming right behind.
In late 2024, the HYPE token of Hyperliquid was issued at a valuation of FDV of 4.2 billion. This analogy makes light of Best DEX as a comparable story in the development of the decentralized derivatives industry.
Having a zero-knowledge rollup architecture and a C-corp that is registered in the United States. Lighter DEX plans to provide verifiable order matching and liquidation, key benefits distinguishing it from its competitors.
With the growth of open trading and the adoption of tokens, the market will either build LIT as a long-term or short-term hype.
What’s Next For Lighter Price?
As of the reporting, the Lighter (LIT) price hovered at $2.89, reflecting a slight surge of 4% on the 4-hour chart.
LIT had just hit a low of $2.30 and then picked itself up marginally. The current price is below a critical level of price at $3.00.
In case the bears sink to less than $2.75, the next downside level might be at $2.70, which coincides with the past volume nodes.
On the upside, the $2.90 level remains a key resistance, with a further breakout possibly targeting $3.00.
