Team & Investor 1-Year Lock Ends
Lighter (LIT) · Token Unlocks · ~December 30, 2026
Lighter (LIT) team (26%) and investor (24%) allocations finish their 1-year lock around December 30, 2026, then vest linearly over 3 years.
Lighter is a perpetual futures and spot exchange running as an Ethereum ZK rollup with custom circuits for verifiable matching and liquidations. Its LIT token launched on December 30, 2025. In the official tokenomics thread posted that day, Lighter stated that team (26% of supply) and investors (24%) all have a 1-year unlock followed by 3-year linear vesting, so insider tokens, half of the 1B LIT supply, begin unlocking around December 30, 2026. The exact first-release mechanics and amount were not specified by the project. Key topics: LIT token unlock, Lighter team investor cliff, Lighter vesting December 2026, perp DEX token unlocks.