It's really New Year now! Congratulations to Lighter for entering public testing! The biggest TGE of the second half of the year is about to arrive! I've been following Lighter since May, and I've watched it slowly improve! Whether it's the user experience or the core data, it perfectly demonstrates that product strength is the core factor of competition. The PerpDEX track is so crowded, Lighter will definitely have a place! Please watch the blessing video, My Amigos 👀

The data in the video is as of September 20. For the latest data on Lighter, please refer to (there have been several major events in the PerpDEX track in between).

This update includes many points not mentioned in the videos. 1. More VC disclosures, backed by the best. The most surprising is that the recently popular Founders Fund is also involved in the investment, encountering the strongest you in the best era (as quoted by a group friend). HAUN was founded by a former partner of A16Z, and both Dragonfly and Robert are veteran project experts, so I won't elaborate further. The funniest part is that the renowned A16Z can only be placed in the second row 😂 In addition, Craft Ventures has also confirmed its participation in the investment, seemingly unwilling to be disclosed. Someone also uncovered that the White House holds 0.01% of the parent company's shares, not much but enough. Most of the remaining VCs in the second row are related to the Silicon Valley AI industry. I believe this may have been brought in by the founder Vlad's former partner and Lighter advisor Scott Wu @ScottWu46, as there is a high overlap with his own AI project Cognition @cognition. 2. The block explorer has undergone a UI update, making it easier to view. 3. The audit report of the core code has been disclosed.

It should have been back in March when I got to know the tea master @mdzzi, who mentioned Lighter to me. Later, I went back and studied it carefully and thought it was quite good, but to be honest, I was also lazy and didn't start taking action early. While looking for projects to shoot videos, Lighter is a great introduction, so I released the first Lighter video on May 21 — "The Next Hyperliquid." At the same time, I recommended it to various friends inside and outside the circle (after not being able to get in, I reflected for 3 seconds👀.