Lighter launches EVM development network, enabling smart contracts to directly manage trading orders

Decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Lighter has officially launched its EVM devnet. Built by Lighter in collaboration with Axiom and powered by OpenVM, this devnet is an EVM-equivalent rollup. It runs in sync with Lighter Core, with both designed to settle to Ethereum together via a single ZK proof. Developers can deploy using Foundry, Hardhat, Viem, and Ethers, while also reading account, balance, position, order, and market data from Lighter Core; in addition, they can place, modify, and cancel orders through smart contracts, and on the devnet L1, Lighter Core, and Lighter EVM