Lighter transferred 32.05 million USDC to its vault address, of which approximately $7.5 million went to LLP.
TL;DR
Lighter transferred 32.05 million USDC to its vault, with $7.5 million going to LLP for holder returns, marking an unusual 25% revenue use. The rest went to Coinbase escrow.
According to MLM monitoring, as reported by Odaily Odaily, Lighter withdrew a total of 32.05 million USDC from its platform and transferred it to its vault address, with approximately $100,000 remaining in Lighter's fee wallet. Of this $32.05 million, approximately $8.6 million has been deposited back into Lighter since October 16th, with approximately $7.5 million going into LLP (the fees generated are returned to holders and reflected in LLP earnings). This is unusual, as it has never been publicly disclosed or mentioned in any documents before, representing approximately 25% of total revenue used for this purpose. The remaining approximately $21.9 million USDC was transferred to a Coinbase escrow address. Lighter also disclosed that its vault address is hardcoded into account 0 in the contract, responsible for receiving platform fees, and the address can be changed through the contract mechanism.