Decentralized perpetuals exchange Lighter has launched Multi-Asset Margin today, enabling traders to post non-USDC assets as collateral for perpetual trading, according to Lighter’s documentation. ETH is the first supported collateral asset. Users deposit a supported asset into their margin balance, where its value—discounted by a loan-to-value haircut—counts toward the account’s margin balance and can be used to open perpetual positions.
Feature Scope and Launch Restrictions
The upgrade is limited to perpetual futures at launch, with USDC spot trading collateralized by non-USDC assets slated to follow, per the documentation. Access is restricted to accounts with Unified Trading Accounts enabled, a feature the team rolled out in February and described at the time as the first phase of a push to allow arbitrary tokens to be used as collateral on the platform.
Lighter is rolling out the feature with conservative per-user and global supply caps as it onboards additional assets over time, according to the docs.
Use Cases
The documentation highlights two potential use cases. The first is a delta-neutral basis trade, where a user deposits ETH as margin, shorts ETH perps against it, and earns funding. The second is leveraged spot, where deposited ETH is used as margin to buy more spot ETH.
Risk Management
Account risk is tracked through a single unified health check covering both perp positions and spot collateral.
Market Context
The upgrade arrives as Lighter has lost ground in the perp DEX race since its token launch. The platform currently ranks fourth by 24-hour perp volume at roughly $1.35 billion, per DefiLlama, behind Hyperliquid, Aster, and EdgeX, after leading the market in November and December.
The platform’s LIT token has underperformed since its December 29 debut as airdrop farmers rotated to pre-token competitors, and currently trades at a roughly $930 million valuation.
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