Lighter isn’t a dApp or an L2 - it’s DeFi backbone. While most people are astonished by Lighter’s 4,000 TPS, I want to highlight something even more important. Lighter’s architecture is far more complex than it appears - and PerpDEX is just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface lies a sophisticated infrastructure stack: - zk Appchain - Custom zk circuits - Verification layer - Composability This architecture allowed us to create not only the fastest L2 but also the most efficient and cost-effective one. While today’s rollups deliver just tens of TPS and consume hundreds of megabytes of Ethereum data daily, Lighter achieves thousands of TPS while using only about 100 MB per day. ---Its efficiency is hundreds of times greater.--- But this is only the beginning. The Lighter team is building a series of products that will reshape Ethereum, Layer 2s, and the entire DeFi landscape. The next major piece of this infrastructure is the zkVM Sidecar. The zkVM Sidecar adds a new layer to Lighter - one designed to scale the entire financial system built on Ethereum. It unlocks the ability to build entirely new classes of products, including: - Option protocols - Prediction markets - Dark pools - DeFi vaults & TradFi strategies - Lending protocols - Derivatives zkVM Sidecar acts as an open, public layer, empowering anyone to build on top of Lighter. This is how the Lighter ecosystem begins to take shape. ---------------- What many people overlook is this: Lighter is not just another L2 - it’s a deep infrastructure solution, secured by Ethereum, enabling scalable financial dApps for the next generation of DeFi. Lighter’s impact on Ethereum could be far more profound than anyone imagines today.