Blockaid Expands Chain Support for Lighter

Executive Summary

Lighter has grown into one of the top three perpetual decentralized exchanges in crypto, having processed over $1.6 trillion in cumulative perpetual trading volume since launch. Built as an Ethereum L2 using zero-knowledge proofs for verifiable order matching and liquidations, Lighter operates as a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) supporting both spot and perpetuals trading. Its design prioritizes provable execution and self-custody, delivering exchange-level performance without requiring users to give up control of their assets.

What sets Lighter apart in the perp DEX landscape is its architecture's transparency at the trade layer. Unlike most decentralized venues that only surface aggregate market activity, Lighter attributes every fill to specific accounts on both sides of the trade. That makes it particularly relevant for asset managers and trading firms that need to understand counterparty exposure, not just transaction history.

As institutional participants expand their activity across perpetual DEXs, the compliance and security requirements they operate under come with them. Platforms and protocols building on or integrating with Lighter need to protect their users and infrastructure in real time. With this release, Blockaid adds chain support for Lighter across End User Protection and Risk Exposure, the two capabilities most directly relevant to the operational needs of teams working in and around Lighter's ecosystem.

What's New: Blockaid Adds Chain Support for Lighter

As Lighter grows and attracts a broader range of institutional participants, teams operating on it need security coverage that matches how they actually trade. Because Lighter attributes every fill to specific accounts on both sides of the trade, it is possible to screen counterparties with a degree of precision that most onchain venues don't support. This release delivers native support for Lighter across the full transaction lifecycle.

• Transaction Scanning: Blockaid now natively scans Lighter transactions in real time. For every transaction submitted on Lighter, teams get a risk verdict and simulation output, surfacing exposure to malicious addresses, flagged counterparties, and anomalous behavior before a transaction is signed. Teams get the same depth of decode applied to Lighter that Blockaid brings to every supported chain.
• Address Scanning: Blockaid analyzes onchain and offchain data, cross-chain activity, and behavioral heuristics for every Lighter address, evaluating transaction history, risk associations, and links to malicious infrastructure, to return a clear verdict on any counterparty before a transfer is made. For trading firms operating at scale, that means every deposit destination, withdrawal address, and counterparty wallet on Lighter can be screened against Blockaid's threat intelligence before capital moves.
• Risk Exposure: Blockaid's Risk Exposure is now available for Lighter addresses, giving trading firms and asset managers a real-time compliance screening layer for every counterparty they interact with on the chain. Each address scan returns a clear compliance verdict, benign, warning, or malicious, along with a detailed breakdown of USD exposure across risk categories including sanctioned entities, mixers, stolen funds, fraud operations, and darknet markets. Because Lighter's trade data enables account-level attribution, teams aren't just screening deposit wallet addresses, they're screening active trading participants.

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Looking Ahead: Continuously Scaling Onchain Security for Perp DEXs

Lighter is part of a broader shift in where serious trading activity is happening onchain. Alongside Hyperliquid and Aster, it represents a category of high-throughput, institutionally relevant perpetual DEXs that are pulling in traditional finance participants who bring compliance requirements, operational standards, and security expectations that weren't historically part of the DeFi conversation.

Blockaid's coverage across this category is expanding to match. Each of these venues has a distinct architecture, with different order models, different state representations, and different ways of attributing activity. Building meaningful security and compliance coverage means understanding how each one works at the protocol level and building detection and screening capabilities that reflect that, not applying generic EVM tooling on top of environments it wasn't designed for.

As more institutional participants operate on Lighter and across the perp DEX category, Blockaid will continue expanding coverage, with deeper monitoring capabilities, broader screening, and tighter integrations, so that the teams operating in these environments have the infrastructure they need to do so with confidence.

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About Blockaid

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