{"id":513093,"date":"2025-11-11T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=770139"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:06:57","slug":"perp-dex-space-heats-up-lighter-ignites-68m-fundraise-as-investors-flock-to-defis-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/perp-dex-space-heats-up-lighter-ignites-68m-fundraise-as-investors-flock-to-defis-next-big-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Perp DEX Space Heats up \u2014 Lighter Ignites $68M Fundraise as Investors Flock to Defi\u2019s Next Big Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nniiiopoop-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lighter Ignites $68M Fundraise as Investors Flock to DeFi\u2019s Next Big Thing\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Vladimir Novakovski\u2019s blockchain startup Lighter has secured $68 million in fresh funding from top-tier backers, marking one of the most notable reverse pivots in Silicon Valley\u2014from artificial intelligence (AI) back to crypto. According to a Forbes report, Lighter\u2019s $68 million round was led by Peter Thiel\u2019s Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Haun [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Novakovski\u2019s blockchain startup Lighter has secured $68 million in fresh funding from top-tier backers, marking one of the most notable reverse pivots in Silicon Valley\u2014from artificial intelligence (AI) back to crypto. According to a Forbes report, Lighter\u2019s $68 million round was led by Peter Thiel\u2019s Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Haun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-513093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}