Lighter founder vladn.eth recently published a detailed airdrop distribution explanation in the project community, clarifying the public's questions about the project's token LIT distribution. According to the announcement, the project team confirmed the existence of an independent points distribution mechanism outside of trading activities, which accounts for less than 10% of the total airdrop.

Specifically, there was a special arrangement established before the private testing phase at the end of last year. The project team signed an agreement with a third-party liquidity provider, offering up to $5 million in liquidity reserves during the testing phase to hedge against early market liquidity shortages. The founder emphasized that there is no financial interest or personal relationship between the two parties; it is purely a business cooperation.

Another detail is that Lighter has established a partnership with a trading company, leveraging their technical expertise in low-latency trading systems to accelerate platform feature iterations.

It is worth noting that earlier data showed Jump Crypto has been providing market-making services on Lighter since mid-November, earning an airdrop reward of 9,285,000 LIT tokens, which was approximately $24.2 million at the time, representing about 0.93% of the total LIT supply. This also illustrates the contribution differences among various participants in the early stages of the project.