AUTOMATED MARKET MAKING ON LIGHTER · ROBINHOOD CHAIN
PAPER TESTEDNON-CUSTODIAL
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READ THIS FIRST. These are projections, not
results: what a model fitted to our own paper runs expects each build to do
against the market as it is right now. Not a track record, and not a
promise — the market moves and so do these.
CHOOSE YOUR BUILD
WORKSHOP
Tune every dial yourself. Changes are simulated against the same recorded data,
so you can see the trade-off before anything goes live.
STRATEGY DIALS
4.0 bps
Lower = more trades, thinner margin. Below 2 bps lost money in testing.
$30
Venue minimum is about $11.
$300
8 bps
8 bps
Kept our average position at zero in testing. 0 disables it.
0.50
WHICH MARKETS IT WILL TOUCH
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The bot refuses any market failing these. Stricter = trades less often on
better setups; looser = trades more often with less room for error.
3.0x
30/hr
$200K
0.35
A maker bleeds in a trend whatever the spread.
SAFETY RAILS
2.0x
Venue allows 5x. Above 3x, a bad hour can liquidate you.
2.0%
Bot stops for the day if it loses this much.
PROJECTION
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This market, right now, at your settings.
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YOUR RETURNS
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RUN IT
STOPPED
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SAVE BUILD
WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM
the same build on the LIT test tape
Interpolated between measured presets on one recorded LIT session. Fixed
history — it does not follow the market you picked above.
TOP MARKETS
Live across Lighter and Hyperliquid, ranked by
spread earned per unit of volatility risked — after fees. Only
markets passing every safety gate are listed.
HOW TO PICK
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WHY LIGHTER WINS. Lighter charges zero maker fees;
Hyperliquid charges 1.5 bps a side, so 3 bps of any spread is gone before you
earn anything. Hyperliquid's liquid markets (BTC 0.2 bps, ETH 0.5 bps) don't
cover that, and the ones with wide spreads are wildly volatile. On top of that,
only Lighter volume earns LIT points.
MY PAPER WEEK
NOT STARTED
A funded practice account with simulated fills. The point is not the profit
— it is finding which markets pay you before real money.
TEST RESULTS
Live paper runs, straight from the bot's own checkpoint files. Green dot = still running.
All simulated.
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NEW PLAYER
The only way to get back in if you forget your password. We send
nothing else to it.
YOUR KEY IS YOURS ALONE. Every player links their own Lighter
key to their own Lighter account. Your key is encrypted, never shown again,
and never shared with another player. It signs orders on
your account and nowhere else.
1. FUND YOUR OWN ACCOUNT
Go to Lighter and connect your wallet.
Deposit USDC into your account.
Withdraw any time, directly, without asking us.
We never touch your funds.
Collateral—
2. LINK TRADING KEY
3. STATUS
OR: RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE RECOMMENDED
Your bot, your computer, your key — the key never touches this
site at all. The bot reports its progress here so your dashboard and
paper-week table still work. If your machine goes offline the venue cancels
your orders automatically, so a dropped connection fails safe.
The paper bot cannot place an order — the code that
signs orders is not in the download. Check for yourself: there is no
signer.py in it.
THE LIVE BOT
REAL MONEY
A separate download that can place real orders on your own
Lighter account. It is deliberately not the same file as the paper bot, so
that the paper bot’s promise stays absolute.
NEVER paste a seed phrase or wallet private key. Only a Lighter
trading API key. That key cannot withdraw your funds — withdrawals
need a signature from your wallet it does not have. Revoke it on Lighter at any
time to cut off access instantly, without involving us.
HISTORY
Everything that has happened on your account.
Sign in to see your history.
ASK
Answers use the live scan, your saved build and your paper week — the same
numbers on the rest of this site. It will say “I don’t know”
rather than guess, it cannot change anything, and it never sees your key.
START WITH ONE OF THESE
Nothing asked yet.
IT IS NOT AN ADVISER. It explains what this site measures.
It cannot tell you what will happen, because nobody can. Anything it says
about the future is a description of a model fitted to a handful of hours of
paper trading.
HOW IT WORKS
THE GAP
LIT's order book has a wide gap between the best buy and best sell price
— around 18 basis points. On BTC the same gap is 0.5.
Almost nobody is quoting inside it.
THE BOT
It parks a buy order and a sell order inside that gap. When both fill, it
bought low and sold high on the same asset. It does not bet on direction.
THE POINTS
Lighter is paying out 11M LIT to Robinhood users based on
trading volume. Real market making generates real volume — which is why
this is built to earn points legitimately.
WHY ONE ACCOUNT PER PERSON
Lighter's rules explicitly ban "operating or controlling multiple accounts
to earn additional points" and "self-trading or trading between commonly
controlled accounts." They can reverse points after awarding them.
So: one account per person, your own funds, your own wallet, real orders into
the real book. Slower than the schemes going around, and it still pays out
when they get zeroed.
RISK. This is automated trading with leverage on a volatile asset.
You can lose money, including more than you expect if the market gaps. The results
shown here are from a few hours of simulation on a quiet market — a small
sample that may not hold. Points are worth an unknown amount until Lighter
distributes them, and may be worth nothing. Not investment advice. Lighter's
program excludes 18 regions including the US, UK, Canada and Singapore —
check that you are eligible before funding anything.