Compare Lighter and pump.fun on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
$525.06M
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.
pump.fun is a launchpad on Solana that lets anyone create a token and make it instantly tradeable in one click, for free. Famous for powering the memecoin boom, pump.fun has launched millions of tokens and has become a major driver of activity on Solana. Coins can also 'graduate' to decentralized exchanges, making pump.fun the ground zero for rapid token creation and trading.