Fair Price Marking

Mark price is the fair price of a perpetual contract. Mark price is calculated using the liquidity in the perpetual market order book and the index price (spot price of the underlying market). At any point in time, mark price is defined as follows:

$$\small \text{price1}_t := index_t \times (1 + \text{Last Funding Rate} \times \frac{\text{Time Until Next Funding}}{\text{Funding Period}}) \\~\\ \text{price2}_t := median(\text{cexPrices}_t) \\ \text{where cexPrices}_t \text{ are mark prices from different centralized exchanges} \\~\\ \text{Impact Notional Amount} = 500 \text{ USDC} / \text{Initial Margin Fraction} \\ \text{Impact Bid Price}_t = \text{Avg execution price for a market sell of the impact notional value} \\ \text{Impact Ask Price}_t = \text{Avg execution price for a market buy of the impact notional value} \\ \text{Impact Price}_t = (\text{Impact Bid Price}_t + \text{Impact Ask Price}_t) / 2 \\ \\~\\ \text{Mark Price} = Median(price1_t, price2_t, \text{Impact Price}_t)$$

Lighter uses a combination of oracles to determine the index price, with Stork as our primary oracle provider. Stork is a decentralized oracle network designed to offer secure, reliable, and timely price feeds.