Lighter
It can place orders without you approving each one. Paper trading is available.
Can trade unattended
From our listingNo official MCP server; experimental agent kit in its GitHub org. API keys trade and can withdraw only to the account owner's own Ethereum address; read-only tokens and maker-only keys available
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- Category
- Crypto exchanges
- Pricing
- no API fee
- Best for
- Crypto exchanges · crypto perpetuals, crypto spot
- Verified
- 2026-10-30
Agent Risk Score (v2)
Agent risk 64% (partial, 5 of 7 inputs)
| Input | From official docs | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Who holds the keys | Keys can move funds between your own accounts and withdraw back to your own Ethereum address, but can't send to anyone else source | 10 / 20 |
| Spending limits enforced outside the agent | Missing: no official source found yet | missing / 20 |
| Human approval | API orders execute with no approval step source | 0 / 15 |
| Sending funds to new addresses | Sending to a different owner or a fast withdrawal to any address needs the wallet's signature source | 15 / 15 |
| Transaction preview or simulation | Missing: no official source found yet | missing / 10 |
| Open source and audits | Public circuits and contracts (source-available licence) with 9 audit reports linked in the docs source | 10 / 10 |
| Incident record (last 12 months) | No incident naming this tool in our incident tracker for the last 12 months, and every scored input links an official source source | 10 / 10 |
| Total | 64% of the points we could check | 45 / 70 |
Safety score
| Input | From our listing | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Can it place live orders unattended? | API orders execute with no per-order approval step source | 0 / 25 |
| Order approval or confirmation options | No per-order approval; maker-only keys (post-only orders and cancels) and read-only tokens limit what a credential can do (official docs) source | 8 / 15 |
| Paper, demo or testnet mode | Public testnet app and API settling to Sepolia (official docs) source | 15 / 15 |
| Withdrawal permission needed or allowed | A key can make a 'secure withdrawal' only back to the account owner's own Ethereum address; sending to anyone else needs the wallet's signature (official docs) source | 15 / 15 |
| Scoped keys, permission scopes or IP whitelisting | Separate key per account and sub-account, maker-only keys and read-only tokens (5 minutes to 10 years) (official docs) source | 10 / 10 |
| Open source or audited | Circuits and contracts are public on GitHub (contracts under a source-available licence) and the docs link 9 audit reports (official docs) source | 10 / 10 |
| Sourced and verified facts | Facts from the vendor's official docs | 10 / 10 |
| Total | 68% of the points we could check | 68 / 100 |
Full facts
| Category | Exchanges & brokers for bots |
|---|---|
| Assets | crypto perpetuals, crypto spot |
| Live vs paper | live; public testnet (testnet.app.lighter.xyz, settles to Sepolia) |
| Order approval / safety | No official MCP server; experimental agent kit in its GitHub org. API keys trade and can withdraw only to the account owner's own Ethereum address; read-only tokens and maker-only keys available |
| Pricing / free tier | no API fee; Standard accounts 0% maker / 0% taker with a 300 ms speed bump, Premium 0.004% / 0.028% |
| Rate limits | Standard: 60 requests per minute. Premium: 24,000 weight per minute; order sends from 4,000 per minute, more with LIT staked. |
| Official / community | official |
| Last checked | 2026-10-30 |
| Source | docs.lighter.xyz |
| Regions (US / UK / EU) | US, Canada, UK, China, Russia, Ukraine and several sanctioned countries; Robinhood Chain adds Singapore, Switzerland and the UAE. |
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