Lighter is a perpetual trading protocol that introduces a scalable, secure, transparent, non-custodial, and verifiable order book trading infrastructure within the Ethereum ecosystem. As an application-specific zk-rollup, it employs advanced cryptographic techniques and data structures. Lighter significantly improves the security and fairness of order book trading with its verifiable matching engine, ensuring scalable and efficient market price discovery. Thus, Lighter lays the groundwork for creating new, high-performance, and secure digital trading platforms.
Tempo is a high-performance Layer1 blockchain designed for payment, developed by Stripe and Paradigm. With support for all major stablecoins, Tempo enables high-throughput, low-cost global transactions for any business use case.
M0 is money middleware for the digital age. Based on a decentralized architecture and best-in-class collateral design, M0 allows institutions to issue cryptodollars. It also allows for M distributions to earners and governance token (ZERO) holders. There are three main types of actors in the protocol - Minters, Validators, and Earners - all of which are permissioned via governance. Protocol variables are also managed by governance and are stored in a Registrar configuration contract.
