[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Professor Satoshi.🕯️ [@satoshiheist](/creator/twitter/satoshiheist) on x 8407 followers Created: 2025-07-16 12:57:13 UTC After X months of Trading on @Lighter_xyz Here is my Points Guide for New Lighter Traders 🕯️ First off you need to stop thinking about DYDX days where spamming volume will get you points. Think about it, do you think the exchanges want this kind of activity on their exchange? No. They don't. X. Liquidations - You can see in the discord that each week Sebas highlights the worst traders on Lighter and rewards them with points. Some savvy people started doing $XXX liquidations each week to get XX points or so. This is dead now. They literally have XX full time quants. There was no way we would have gotten away with this for that long. It was good for X months while it lasted. So now they probably have a scaling system to not give points to "liquidation farmers" X. Losers/Winners - Sebas also posts that losers also get a lot of points each week. I understand the rationale. It helps encourage losers to stay, while they also reward profitable traders for being active and trying out Lighter. Why do you think they have a sharpe ratio metric on their platform? They want you to measure yourself. Most exchanges want you to lose - Lighter is different. X. Trade duration - This is one I experimented with myself. I realized trade duration boosted my points last week. I did long/short pair trades and even some funding arbitrage trades. They encourage this and thats why they have a built in quant page to tell you where there might be opportunities . What a big surprise... the CEO @vnovakovski was literally a quant at Citadel. He's trying to help us. X. Trading smaller markets - I noticed that when I traded unpopular pairs sometimes I got more points. Random memes or uncommon pairs. Also if you trade on new listings like $PUMP they reward you for being active on it. X. Being a top maker - This is for market makers providing liquidity to a category (ie alt coin category). They are rewarding API traders in this way. DO NOT: X. Open and close trades to spam volume X. Farm on multiple accounts (I got banned on one back in March - idk about now) X. Complain about points being hard to get now, it will only get harder for the next X months we have remaining. DO: X. Be a profitable trader X. Hold trades for longer (pair trade / funding arb) X. Trade smaller markets X. Use my Lighter Private beta invite link. DM for access. X left.  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [discord](/topic/discord) [exchanges](/topic/exchanges) [satoshi](/topic/satoshi) [Post Link](https://x.com/satoshiheist/status/1945467758935961899)
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Professor Satoshi.🕯️ @satoshiheist on x 8407 followers
Created: 2025-07-16 12:57:13 UTC
After X months of Trading on @Lighter_xyz Here is my Points Guide for New Lighter Traders 🕯️
First off you need to stop thinking about DYDX days where spamming volume will get you points. Think about it, do you think the exchanges want this kind of activity on their exchange? No. They don't.
X. Liquidations - You can see in the discord that each week Sebas highlights the worst traders on Lighter and rewards them with points. Some savvy people started doing $XXX liquidations each week to get XX points or so. This is dead now. They literally have XX full time quants. There was no way we would have gotten away with this for that long. It was good for X months while it lasted. So now they probably have a scaling system to not give points to "liquidation farmers"
X. Losers/Winners - Sebas also posts that losers also get a lot of points each week. I understand the rationale. It helps encourage losers to stay, while they also reward profitable traders for being active and trying out Lighter. Why do you think they have a sharpe ratio metric on their platform? They want you to measure yourself. Most exchanges want you to lose - Lighter is different.
X. Trade duration - This is one I experimented with myself. I realized trade duration boosted my points last week. I did long/short pair trades and even some funding arbitrage trades. They encourage this and thats why they have a built in quant page to tell you where there might be opportunities . What a big surprise... the CEO @vnovakovski was literally a quant at Citadel. He's trying to help us.
X. Trading smaller markets - I noticed that when I traded unpopular pairs sometimes I got more points. Random memes or uncommon pairs. Also if you trade on new listings like $PUMP they reward you for being active on it.
X. Being a top maker - This is for market makers providing liquidity to a category (ie alt coin category). They are rewarding API traders in this way.
DO NOT: X. Open and close trades to spam volume X. Farm on multiple accounts (I got banned on one back in March - idk about now) X. Complain about points being hard to get now, it will only get harder for the next X months we have remaining.
DO: X. Be a profitable trader X. Hold trades for longer (pair trade / funding arb) X. Trade smaller markets X. Use my Lighter Private beta invite link. DM for access. X left.
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