Trading Fees

For both perpetual futures and spot markets, Lighter currently charges no maker or taker fees for Standard Accounts, allowing all users 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 Account (Opt-in) — For HFT and latency-sensitive strategies.

Note: These Premium Account parameters will get deprecated when Fee Tiers go live.

• Fees: 0.002% Maker, 0.02% Taker

• Taker latency: 150ms

• Maker/Cancel latency: 0ms

• Premium Accounts follow the volume quota program

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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.

LIT Fee Credits Program [coming soon]

We are planning a LIT Fee Credits program designed to support smaller or capital-constrained participants making use of Premium Accounts. Instead of staking the full amount required for a higher discount tier, users will be able to buy staked LIT fee credits, which will count toward their staking tier.

For example, a participant with 100,000 LIT staked may use an additional 200,000 staked LIT via LIT Fee Credits to qualify for the next staking tier.

Acquiring LIT Fee Credits will require a one-time upfront fee, determined by the amount of LIT accessed and the selected access duration. All proceeds from the LIT Fee Credits program are distributed to LIT stakers, with the upfront fee streamed as daily rewards over the full access period.

This program is currently in the design phase, and feedback is welcome.

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.

Fee Tiers [going live on Sunday, Feb 8th after 12:30PM UTC]

For Premium Accounts, all order cancelations & Post Only order placements not subject to any additional latency.

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%