Trading Fees

For both perpetual futures and spot markets, Lighter currently charges no maker or taker fees for Standard Accounts, allowing all participants to trade across all markets free of charge. Premium Accounts are subject to maker and taker fees, with the option to receive fee discounts by staking LIT.

Account Types

Standard Account (Default) — Trade for free.

• Fees: 0 maker / 0 taker

• Taker latency: 300ms

• Maker latency: 200ms

• Cancel latency: 200ms

Premium Accounts (Opt-In) — Subject to Staking-based Fee Tiers

For Premium Accounts, all order cancelations & Post Only order placements not subject to any additional latency. For this account type, please consider the volume quota program.

Staked LIT	Maker/Taker Fee Discount	Maker Fee	Taker Fee	Taker Latency	Latency Improvement
0		0.0040%	0.0280%	200 ms
1,000	2.5%	0.0039%	0.0273%	195 ms	2.5%
3,000	5%	0.0038%	0.0266%	190 ms	5%
10,000	10%	0.0036%	0.0252%	180 ms	10%
30,000	15%	0.0034%	0.0238%	170 ms	15%
100,000	20%	0.0032%	0.0224%	160 ms	20%
300,000	25%	0.0030%	0.0210%	150 ms	25%
500,000	30%	0.0028%	0.0196%	140 ms	30%

Plus Accounts (Opt-In) — Suitable for latency-insensitive users, looking to get increased rate limits.

This tier can be enabled using the changeAccountTier endpoint via API or switched to via account type on the app.

Maker/Taker Fee	Taker Latency	Maker/Cancel Latency	sendTx/sendTxBatch per minute	Read-only weighted requests per minute
0.5bps	300 ms	200 ms	8000	120000

---

Fee Discounts for Premium Accounts via Staking

All Premium Account fees and latency will be eligible for staking discounts. Staking discounts will be applied at the L1 address level, where the total staked LIT is calculated as the combined stake across the main account and all associated sub-accounts.

As a result, the main account and its sub-accounts will share the same staking tier, determined by the aggregated LIT stake.

Rate Limits Considerations

We recognize that many participants distribute trading activity across multiple addresses due to operational or rate-limit considerations. To avoid disrupting existing workflows, rate limits will be adjusted to allow users to consolidate activity through sub-accounts without any downside.

In addition, participants may provide a list of addresses to the Lighter team, enabling all associated accounts to share a single tier based on the total staked LIT across those addresses. We also plan to introduce in-app wallet linking for fee-discount purposes soon.