Lighter Unveils Multi-Asset Margin Starting With ETH

Decentralized perpetuals trade Lighter is rolling out Multi-Asset Margin at the moment, enabling merchants to put up non-$USDC property as collateral for perps buying and selling.

The characteristic debuts with $ETH as the primary supported collateral asset, in response to Lighter’s documentation. Customers deposit a supported asset into their margin stability, and its worth, discounted by a loan-to-value haircut, counts towards the account’s margin stability and can be utilized to open perpetual positions. The improve is proscribed to perpetual futures at launch, with $USDC spot buying and selling collateralized by non-$USDC property slated to comply with.

Lighter is rolling out the characteristic with conservative per-user and international provide caps because it onboards extra property over time, per the docs. Entry is restricted to accounts with Unified Buying and selling Accounts enabled, which the crew rolled out in February and described on the time as the primary part of a push to permit arbitrary tokens for use as collateral on the platform.

The documentation highlights two potential use instances. The primary is a delta-neutral foundation commerce, the place a consumer deposits $ETH as margin, shorts $ETH perps towards it, and earns funding. The second is leveraged spot, the place deposited $ETH is used as margin to purchase extra spot $ETH.

Account danger is tracked by means of a single unified well being examine overlaying each perp positions and spot collateral.

The improve arrives as Lighter has misplaced floor within the perp DEX race since its token launch. The platform presently ranks fourth by 24-hour perp quantity at roughly $1.35 billion, per DefiLlama, behind Hyperliquid, Aster, and EdgeX, after main the market in November and December.

The platform’s $LIT token has underperformed since its Dec. 29 debut as airdrop farmers rotated to pre-token rivals, and presently trades at a roughly $930 million valuation.