Upbit will add a South Korean won trading market for Lighter’s LIT token at 1:00 pm KST on Aug. 24, according to an official exchange announcement.
Summary
- Upbit will open LIT trading against South Korea’s won at 1:00 pm KST August 24.
- Deposits and withdrawals are supported only through Ethereum using Upbit’s specified LIT contract address exclusively.
- Buy orders will remain restricted for approximately five minutes after KRW trading begins on Upbit.
- Only limit orders will be available during the first two hours of trading support initially.
- LIT staking grants access to Lighter’s liquidity pool and can provide platform fee benefits currently.
The LIT/KRW listing will allow Upbit customers to purchase the token directly with won. LIT was already available through Upbit’s Bitcoin market, which provided the reference price used to establish the new market’s opening restrictions.
Upbit listed LIT’s previous BTC market closing price as 0.00004500 BTC, equivalent to approximately 4,803 won. The figure is a reference for initial order controls and does not guarantee the token’s opening price in the won market.
The exchange warned that trading could be postponed if it fails to secure sufficient liquidity after deposits and withdrawals become available.
Upbit will restrict early LIT/KRW orders
Upbit will block buy orders for approximately five minutes after LIT/KRW trading begins. Sell orders priced more than 10% below the previous closing price will also be restricted during that period.
Only limit orders will be accepted for the first two hours. Market orders and other conditional order types will become available after the initial restriction ends.
The controls are designed to reduce disorderly trading when a new won market opens with limited price history. However, they cannot prevent sharp volatility or price differences between Upbit and international exchanges.
Upbit advised customers to compare prices across domestic and global markets before trading. South Korean listings can attract concentrated retail activity, especially when an asset gains direct access to won liquidity.
Previous Upbit additions have occasionally produced abrupt market moves. In one example, ORCA rose more than 200% following its South Korean market listing. That earlier reaction does not establish how LIT will trade.
Ethereum is the only supported deposit network
Upbit will process LIT deposits and withdrawals only through Ethereum. Customers using another network risk having their deposits rejected or delayed during the return process.
The exchange identified the supported contract as 0x232ce3bd40fcd6f80f3d55a522d03f25df784ee2. Users should verify this address before transferring funds.
South Korea’s Travel Rule requirements also apply. Deposits from exchanges not included on Upbit’s approved virtual asset service provider list may not be credited. Refunds for unsupported deposits can take an extended period.
Transfers from personal wallets are limited to addresses that have completed ownership verification. Upbit may also request information about the source of funds when customers make large deposits with unclear origins.
These conditions are separate from Lighter’s layer 2 trading system. Although the protocol processes orders and position management through its Ethereum scaling environment, LIT itself is issued as an Ethereum token.
LIT supports staking and liquidity access
Lighter operates an order book based decentralized exchange focused on perpetual futures. The protocol processes trading through an Ethereum layer 2 while using cryptographic proofs to verify order matching and liquidations.
As crypto.news previously explained, Lighter runs perpetual futures within the Robinhood Wallet ecosystem. Availability varies by jurisdiction, and users in several countries cannot access the leveraged trading service.
LIT is the protocol’s infrastructure and utility token. Lighter’s official documentation says staking provides access to its Lighter Liquidity Pool, or LLP.
Each staked LIT currently allows a user to deposit up to 10 USDC into the pool. Unstaking is subject to a three day lockup period.
Stakers may also qualify for trading and funding related benefits. Lighter says protocol trading fees fund token purchases through daily time weighted average price transactions, although the pace depends on revenue and internal allocation decisions.
The token launched with 25% of its supply distributed through a community airdrop. Half of the overall supply was allocated to ecosystem programs, while the other half went to the team and investors under lockup and vesting terms.
What happens after LIT trading begins
The first restriction will expire approximately five minutes after trading starts, allowing normal buy orders and lower priced sell orders. Upbit will continue accepting only limit orders for roughly two hours.
Broader order functionality should become available afterward, provided the exchange does not extend its controls. Upbit may also display market warnings if price movements, deposits or trading volumes rise unusually quickly.
No independently verified market reaction was available before the scheduled opening. Traders should monitor the opening price, liquidity and differences between the LIT/KRW market and global LIT pairs after trading starts.
