Lighter drops first-week fee rebate for referred users, pays referral rewards in LIT
Referred traders keep a 10% fee discount, but no longer get their first week of Premium/Advanced fees back. Referrer rates of 10% and 20% are unchanged.
· Announced · Verified 2026-11-02 via official docs diff
Announced Oct 27, 2026: Lighter drops first-week fee rebate for referred users, pays referral rewards in LIT. Affects: Traders who sign up through a Lighter referral link and use a Premium/Advanced account. Source: docs.lighter.xyz, verified Nov 2, 2026. Lighter code DEXSHEET (10% fee rebate).
Lighter updated its referral program page on 27 October 2026. The page no longer says referred users get their first week of Premium/Advanced fees rebated, and it now states that weekly payouts to both referrers and referred users are made in LIT tokens.
Until the update, Lighter's referral page said referred users would get their first week of Premium/Advanced fees rebated, on top of a 10% discount on the fees they pay. The current page keeps only the 10% discount, rebated every Monday, and describes it as starting at sign-up when the referral code is used.
Payouts are still weekly L2 transfers from the same address with a $1 minimum. The earlier page did not name the payout asset; the current page says they are paid in LIT tokens, so the value received moves with the LIT price rather than being fixed in dollars.
Referrers still earn 10% of their referred users' gross fees at the Bronze tier and 20% at Silver (15 or more unique referrals, each active on 5 or more days). Standard accounts, Lighter's default, still pay no maker or taker fees on regular orders, so the change matters mainly to referred traders who opt into Premium/Advanced accounts. Lighter says all rebates and kickbacks are discretionary.
“Kickbacks & rebates for both referrers and referees are paid out weekly as L2 Transfers, in LIT tokens, from this address: 0x817645592D5f7BB7F4F1b027B7f5277f28d12805”
— Lighter Docs, Referral Program
Who this affects
Traders who sign up through a Lighter referral link and use a Premium/Advanced account, and referrers, whose payouts arrive in LIT.
Lighter at a glance
Lighter is an order-book perpetuals and spot exchange running as a ZK rollup on Ethereum, operated by Elliot Technologies, Inc. Its default Standard account trades with zero maker and taker fees; lower-latency Premium and Plus accounts pay fees.
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- Lighter Docs: Referral Program (updated 27 October 2026) — checked 2026-11-02
- Lighter Docs: Trading Fees — checked 2026-11-02
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