Vladimir Novakovski

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Vladimir Novakovski

Vladimir Novakovski

@vnovakovski

Founder CEO @lighter_xyz. Angel @cognition, @modal, @liquidtrading, @daimo. Prev cofounder @lunchclubai, ML @Quora, VPE @Addepar, HFT @Citadel

Katılım Ekim 2011
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Leon
Leon@Leon_Defi·
Perp DEX war is easily the hottest narrative in DeFi right now. Onchain perp volume has gone from just tens of billions in 2024 to multi-trillion territory. Daily volume is consistently smashing $20 - 25B with total OI sitting around $16 - 17B. Onchain trading is actually maturing and starting to eat into CEX territory. Right now @HyperliquidX is still the king: > ~$7.1B daily volume → over 40% market share > $9.5B OI + $5.3B TVL > Custom L1, real liquidity, and a strong $HYPE buyback flywheel The team ships constantly and pro traders actually trust it with real capital. That moat isn’t easy to break. The challengers are no joke though: > @Aster_DEX 1000x lev, stock perps, yield-bearing collateral > @Lighter_xyz Zero-fee zk-rollup on Arbitrum > @PhoenixTrade Solana-native, gasless, fully onchain orderbook Quick insight: > This brutal competition is the best thing that could happen for traders. > More rivalry = lower fees, tighter slippage, faster execution. Perfect environment to farm, hedge, and rotate capital across chains efficiently. DeFi perps have officially graduated from testnet to real battlefield.
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Lighter
Lighter@Lighter_xyz·
How do you ship new products fast while being a fully verifiable ZK rollup? @vnovakovski and @VitalikButerin discuss building the Lighter EVM and adding option markets to Lighter - from our Fireside this week
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Lighter@Lighter_xyz·
New RWA Perp Listing! You can now trade $BABA with up to 10x leverage.
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L2BEAT 💗
L2BEAT 💗@l2beat·
Earlier this week we confirmed @Lighter_xyz's desert verifier reproduces byte-exact from public source. Today, we explain what that actually means for exchange risk. Every centralized venue runs on one trust assumption: you trust the venue to give your money back. Lighter is an exception 🧵
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L2BEAT 💗@l2beat

For the first time, all ZK circuits used by Lighter perp DEX L2 were regenerated from sources by L2BEAT! Now you don’t have to trust the Lighter team to perform a permissionless emergency exit. 👇Learn more in the thread👇

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Lighter
Lighter@Lighter_xyz·
A breakdown of how our engineers reduced the costs of proving transactions so much that Lighter is the lowest cost product in the market while also being verifiable, from our Fireside with @VitalikButerin
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eric
eric@econoar·
Been diving into Lighter (ethereum:0x232ce3bd40fcd6f80f3d55a522d03f25df784ee2 ). If Ethereum wants to keep perpetuals volume on-chain, this is the killer app it needs. Here is the thesis on why it works, current metrics, and how it co-exists with Hyperliquid and isn't just a "beta" play: The Metrics -Volume: ~$112M daily -Valuation: ~$345M market cap -Position: Top 5 DeFi trading volume globally The Architecture We need infrastructure that proves Ethereum can handle high-frequency trading. Lighter is an app-specific zk-rollup built for central limit order book (CLOB) trading. -Execution: Off-chain matching with millisecond latency. -Settlement: Trustless settlement on Ethereum via zk-SNARKs and blob data. -Custody: If the sequencer fails, users can reconstruct their accounts and force an exit directly on L1. Co-existing with Hyperliquid The derivatives market is large enough for multiple architectures. -Hyperliquid (Sovereign L1): Optimizes for raw speed and independent consensus. Requires trusting a standalone validator set. -Lighter (Ethereum L2): Optimizes for Ethereum alignment. Sacrifices sovereign control to inherit Ethereum's security budget. Hyperliquid proved the demand for fast, on-chain order books. Lighter takes that product-market fit and anchors it to Ethereum. Both models will capture significant volume as traders diversify their counterparty risk profiles.
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Vladimir Novakovski@vnovakovski·
@xChill @ProMint_X LLP is always there for liquidity, so there is no strict dependence on market makers. But they do provide additional liquidity and price discovery. This experiment is just a new way for market makers to provide even more liquidity into the decentralized order book.
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xChill@xChill·
@vnovakovski @ProMint_X Vlad, I was extremely impressed by the extra effort you went through to sufficiently decentralize your platform. Now you're depending the entire thing on a few centralized market makers? What if they decide to stop trading for a few days unless you give them a bribe?
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ProMint
ProMint@ProMint_X·
Lighter is just feeding Wintermute The Lighter team clearly doesn’t get how the RFQ model is supposed to work. Imagine wanting to buy RWA assets, and you literally have to ask big MMs to inject liquidity into an order book first. Instead of giving you a direct price quote, the system forces external market makers to manually push orders into a traditional order book. It's so clunky. Under Lighter’s model, MMs are just outsiders. They capture all the spread and pocket millions in profits for themselves. Meanwhile, Variational built a real RFQ system through Omni. Liquidity comes directly from a community-driven pool (OLP), meaning market-making revenues stay within the ecosystem rather than getting siphoned off by external MMs like Lighter does. Stick to the original product, not the bootleg copy.
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Lighter@Lighter_xyz

Announcing Lighter RFQ in beta! Available on the web app on eligible RWA markets. Enter and exit larger positions in one click with lower slippage and better pricing.

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Vladimir Novakovski@vnovakovski·
@MattFiebach The order book is the most important financial primitive and we are proud to have implemented it fully verifiably on chain. We are experimenting with an RFQ feature for whales that uses the Lighter order book directly, take a look! x.com/Lighter_xyz/st…
Lighter@Lighter_xyz

Announcing Lighter RFQ in beta! Available on the web app on eligible RWA markets. Enter and exit larger positions in one click with lower slippage and better pricing.

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Matt
Matt@MattFiebach·
Variational, Ostium, Lighter, and Ondo are all moving toward pass through perps: route flow to market makers instead of running their own orderbook or LP pool. These venues look more like brokerages than exchanges. Brokerages don't match users against each other. They route orders to wholesalers like Citadel and Virtu, who fill against the NBBO (consolidated best price every venue is legally forced to honor). Onchain perps are quietly becoming onchain brokerages.
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Lighter
Lighter@Lighter_xyz·
What are the right trust assumptions and tradeoffs for a high performance trading engine?  Our founder @vnovakovski and lead architect @n_lighterxyz discuss with @VitalikButerin : sequencing, MEV, and encrypted mempools during the Fireside this week.
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Lighter
Lighter@Lighter_xyz·
This feature is intended to allow market makers to provide attractive quotes while reducing their capital costs. Reach out to get added to the whitelist!
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tervelix
tervelix@tervelix·
If anyone thinks L2s and appchains are a failed experiment, they need to look at @Lighter_xyz. The reality is that the true vision of an L2 has never been executed at scale. Most current rollups have glaring flaws in their security assumptions, but Lighter is the closest we've come to how an L2 should actually work. I haven't always favored a rollup-centric roadmap, but the potential is massive if done properly. Right now, Lighter is the only project living up to the definition of a true rollup - appchain.
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The Rollup@therollupco

"L2s were a failed experiment. App chains were a failed experiment outside of Hyperliquid." Logan Jastremski reveals why he hasn't thought about Ethereum since 2021: "L2s never made sense. A transaction is just bytes. An L2 compresses 5 bytes to 1 byte. If you want compression, why apply it to a low-throughput chain instead of a high-throughput one?" "Ethereum is mostly an artifact of people making money in the early days. From an institutional and product use case standpoint, it's largely dead. The most overvalued asset in the world."

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Vladimir Novakovski@vnovakovski·
@hosseeb Congrats on the investment! Always great to see builders in the space with new ideas. As a side note, look forward to debating the merits of order books ("CLOB" as a term makes no sense!) vs RFQ vs AMM for efficient onchain price discovery - perhaps on a future Chopping Block?
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Haseeb >|<
Haseeb >|<@hosseeb·
CLOBs are not going to take us to the RWA promised land. Today Hyperliquid owns the liquidity for a handful of RWA macro names. But outside the top 10 traded assets (which are ~90% of volume) liquidity falls off a cliff. When there's enough retail demand, order books can work. But "perps on everything" is a different problem, and TradFi solved it decades ago. The answer isn't every venue rebuilding its own order book. That's not what Robinhood does, it's not what Schwab does, and it's not what DeFi should be doing either. Building your own book for every asset means bootstrapping demand ticker by ticker, renting liquidity with subsidies, and ending up with thin markets that blow out 200x the moment news hits. It's like sucking the ocean of TradFi liquidity through a straw. Variational skips all of it via the RFQ model. RFQ is how institutions like Dragonfly actually trade. In RFQ, dealers quote just-in-time and hedge on the primary venue as orders come in. This lets Variational mainline TradFi liquidity directly and mirror it on-chain. Margin in smart contracts, settlement in stablecoins, liquidity aggregated from the people who already trade on the biggest underlying markets, like the CME and NYSE. It makes it permissionless to access the same depth and spreads the big boys get. With the cold start problem gone, new markets can ship at the speed of software. By next year I expect RWA perps to be the biggest contract class on-chain, bigger than BTC and ETH perps combined. That's how crypto truly becomes the market for everything. I believe the platform that wins that won't look like a traditional exchange. Proud to lead Variational's $50M Series A. Watch this space.
Variational@variational_io

We’ve raised $50M led by @dragonfly_xyz to go all in on RWAs and bring TradFi liquidity on-chain. Today, we're launching Phase 1 of our RWA rollout to stress-test our infrastructure before bringing 100+ TradFi markets on-chain this summer.

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