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. Plus and Premium Accounts are subject to maker and taker fees. Premium Accounts can receive fee discounts by staking LIT.

Account Types

Standard Account (Default) — Trade for free.

• Fees: 0 maker / 0 taker

• Taker latency: 300ms

• Maker latency: 0ms

• Cancel/Modify latency: 300ms

• Sub-accounts: create up to 4

  • Sub accounts cannot be deleted.

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

For Premium Accounts, all order cancelations and Post Only order placements are 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
0		0.0040%	0.0280%	140 ms
1,000	2.5%	0.0039%	0.0273%	140 ms
3,000	5%	0.0038%	0.0266%	140 ms
10,000	10%	0.0036%	0.0252%	140 ms
30,000	15%	0.0034%	0.0238%	140 ms
100,000	20%	0.0032%	0.0224%	140 ms
300,000	25%	0.0030%	0.0210%	140 ms
500,000	30%	0.0028%	0.0196%	140 ms

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	4000	24000

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Fee Discounts for Premium Accounts via Staking

All Premium Account fees 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’ll adjust rate limits so users can consolidate activity through subaccounts without downside.

Users can also link addresses through contacting the Lighter team to share a single tier based on total staked LIT. In-app wallet linking is coming soon.