A New US-Based Altcoin is Being Launched: Airdrop Announcement Also Made!
With 2026 just around the corner, there’s some good news from Lighter, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange.
Lighter, an Ethereum (ETH)-based Layer 2 decentralized exchange focused on perpetual futures trading, announced its plans to launch its native token, Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT), in a post on its X account.
According to the announcement, the LIT token will be distributed equally among the project’s ecosystem, team, and investors.
The LIT token supply will be equally distributed among the ecosystem and team/investors, with a portion also being given away to early adopters via airdrop.
“We are announcing the Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT)!”
Lighter is building the infrastructure for the future of finance, and its native token plays a key role in harmonizing incentives. In this article, we will explain the token’s structure, its broader vision, and its use case roadmap.
It was stated that the LIT token was issued directly by Lighter’s operating company, which is a C-Corp registered in the US.
Lighter also stated that following the announcement, the LIT-USDC trading pair was officially launched. At the time of writing, LIT is still trading at approximately $2.86.
