lighter

What This Skill Does

The Lighter skill enables the OpenClaw AI agent to interact directly with the Lighter protocol, a sophisticated zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup orderbook decentralized exchange. By integrating this skill, your agent gains the ability to query real-time market data, check order books, view historical trade logs, and manage trading positions. Whether you are performing technical analysis on market trends or automating trade executions, this skill provides the necessary interface to communicate with Lighter’s high-frequency, low-latency infrastructure.

Installation

To enable this functionality, use the OpenClaw command-line interface: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/aviclaw/lighter. For read-only operations, ensure the requests library is installed in your Python environment. For full trading capabilities, users must install the official lighter-python SDK from GitHub. Please ensure you verify the repository source and security audits before executing any code involving private keys or financial assets.

Use Cases

This skill is designed for quantitative traders and DeFi enthusiasts. Common use cases include:

1. Market Monitoring: Automating the polling of order books to identify liquidity depth or spread changes.
2. Automated Trading: Programmatically submitting limit or market orders based on agent-driven strategy execution.
3. Portfolio Management: Querying account balances and tracking historical trade performance across various ZK rollup markets.
4. Arbitrage Opportunities: Comparing price data across different markets on the Lighter protocol to trigger execution when specific thresholds are met.

Example Prompts

1. "Check the current order book for market ID 1 and tell me the spread between the highest bid and lowest ask."
2. "What are the last 10 trades executed on the Lighter ETH/USDC market?"
3. "Summarize my current account balance and check if I have any active open orders."

Tips & Limitations

Always prioritize security by using a dedicated burner wallet for automated trading. Remember that while market data (prices, volume) is public, authenticated actions require an API key and a correctly configured Lighter account index. Since Lighter is a ZK-based system, latency is extremely low; however, ensure your environment variables are configured correctly before attempting transactions to avoid signing errors. Never hardcode your API keys; use environment variable management best practices.