Compare Curve DEX and Lighter on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
$1.284B
Curve Finance is an automated market maker optimised for low‑slippage swaps between like‑priced assets such as stablecoins and liquid staking tokens. Its stableswap invariant and meta‑pools keep price impact below 0.05 % even at million‑dollar clip sizes, while veCRV bribing aligns long‑term liquidity incentives. Curve currently handles > $1 billion daily volume across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism and ten other chains.
Lighter is a fully-verifiable decentralized exchange built as a zero-knowledge rollup on Ethereum, delivering high-frequency trading performance with onchain security and composability. Its custom ZK circuits prove every operation — including order matching and liquidations — with millisecond latency and the ability to process tens of thousands of orders per second. The optimized matching engine enables zero fees for retail traders and highly competitive pricing for high-frequency strategies, while deposits, withdrawals and proofs are verified publicly on Ethereum. Lighter's mainnet is live, offering low-cost, low-latency perpetual trading backed by transparent, cryptographically-secured settlement.