Lighter Explorer & Lighter Scan: Look Up Accounts, Trades and Ethereum Proofs

1. What the Lighter explorer shows

Lighter is a perpetuals and spot exchange built as a zero-knowledge rollup on Ethereum: a sequencer matches orders in milliseconds, and the results are proven and settled on Ethereum in batches. The explorer is the public window onto both halves. The home page has four counters and three live tables:

• Totals. On October 15, 2026 at 04:39 UTC the explorer API reported 248,321 batches, 356,439,814 blocks, 135,057,980,891 transactions and 996,737 accounts (shown as “Total users”). The transaction count includes every order, modify and cancel, not only fills, which is why it is so much larger than the number of trades.
• Recent batches, each with 1,600 blocks and a three-dot status: committed, verified, executed.
• Recent blocks, with their transaction count and the status of the batch they belong to.
• Market stats at the latest block: mark price, index price, open interest and funding rate for every market.

One search box (“Go to: batch, block, log or account”) accepts all four kinds of input. Every page has a stable URL, so you can bookmark or share it: /explorer/accounts/<index or 0x address>, /explorer/blocks/<number>, /explorer/batches/<number> and /explorer/logs/<hash>. The lookup box at the top of this page builds those links for you.

What it does not show: open orders, liquidation prices and your order history (orders that never filled leave no log). Those come from the app’s Portfolio page or the public API (section 9).

Related:Lighter review 2026

2. “Lighter Scan”: official vs third-party explorers

Lighter does not run anything called “Lighter Scan”. The phrase usually means the official explorer, or Litscan (litscan.io), a community site whose name is one letter away. Lighter’s API documentation lists Litscan on its Third-Party Resources page for its per-integrator analytics, and adds that every listed tool is run by independent third parties and that Lighter does not guarantee their accuracy. Searching “lighter explorer” also brings up cigarette-lighter products, so check the domain before you click.

Read on October 15, 2026. LighterPulse states on every page that it is “built on the public Lighter API” and “not affiliated with Lighter”, and that links opening Lighter’s app from its site carry a referral code. Our links carry ours (718610TD), and we say so in the disclosure below. L2BEAT rated Lighter Stage 0 when we last checked: the exit path to Ethereum exists, but upgrades are still controlled by the team.

Rule of thumb: use the official explorer or Etherscan to prove something happened, and third-party dashboards to browse. All of them read the same public data, but only the first two are the source.

3. What each field means

The fee fields hint at the account type behind a fill, but they do not prove it. A taker fee of 0% points to a Standard account, which can be a main account, a sub-account or a public pool. Premium takers pay up to 0.028% (less with staked LIT) and Plus accounts 0.005%. Some fills match none of these. The taker in the trade log below paid 0.01%, which is the rate a Standard account pays on TWAP, Chase and Iceberg orders, so that is the likeliest explanation. The Lighter fees guide has the full schedule.

4. How to look up a Lighter account

1. Paste the wallet address or the account index into the search box. A 0x address opens its main account; a number opens the account with that index.
2. Read the header: the account index, a label (MAIN ACCOUNT, PUBLIC POOL, or a system account such as the Lighter Fee Collector) and the owning L1 address.
3. Positions lists market, side, size, entry price and unrealized PnL. Assets lists each balance; USDC used as cross collateral is marked UNIFIED.
4. Logs lists every state change of the account, newest first, with its batch status. Filter by Pubdata Type narrows it to trades, deposits, withdrawals or transfers.
5. Sub-accounts are separate. Each sub-account has its own 15-digit index and its own page. If a position seems to be missing, it may sit in a sub-account. The public API call accountsByL1Address lists every index one address owns.

5. How to verify a fill

1. Open your account and filter the logs by Trade (liquidations appear as Liquidation Trade).
2. Open the entry. The log page shows the block, time, market, size, price, the maker and taker account indexes, both fee rates, the fee account and whether the taker sold.
3. Match it to the app’s trade history by time, size and price. The explorer shows times in your browser’s time zone, while the API and most exports use UTC.
4. Check the status. Pending means the trade is final on Lighter but not yet on Ethereum; once its batch shows all three dots it is settled there too.

A trade with funding (Trade with Funding) is a fill that also settled funding accrued on the position since its last change. Lighter settles funding hourly; the funding rate guide explains the formula.

6. How to verify a deposit

A credited deposit appears as an L1 Deposit log with the L1 address, account index, asset, accepted amount and route type (perps or spot). Filter your account’s logs by L1 Deposit to find it.

• From Ethereum: the deposit is a call to Lighter’s contract, so you can first confirm the transaction on Etherscan and then wait for the log.
• From another chain (Arbitrum, Base, Solana, Tron, Bitcoin and others): the funds pass through a bridge first. If no log exists yet, the bridge has not credited the deposit; the app’s deposit screen shows that progress.
• The accepted amount can be lower than what you sent when a bridge swap or slippage took a cut; the API docs recommend sending a little more than the minimum.
• New accounts: the first credited deposit creates the account, so a new wallet has no account page until then.

Minimums by chain and typical times are in our Lighter deposit and withdrawal guide.

7. How to verify a withdrawal

Lighter has two withdrawal paths, and they look different in the explorer:

• Secure withdrawal (to Ethereum): a Withdraw log with the asset, amount, source account and route type. Once its batch is executed, the log shows the batch number and the withdrawal is final on Ethereum. The protocol’s delay was 1,684 seconds (about 28 minutes) when we called withdrawalDelay on October 15, 2026. Lighter usually claims the funds to your wallet for you; if not, you can call withdrawPendingBalance on the contract yourself.
• Fast withdrawal (USDC to Arbitrum): technically a transfer to Lighter’s fast-withdraw pool with your destination address attached, so it shows up as a transfer rather than a Withdraw log, and the USDC arrives on Arbitrum in about 15–20 seconds.

If a secure withdrawal stays pending for much longer than the current delay, check the batch it belongs to: the batch page shows which of the three Ethereum steps is missing.

8. How proofs reach Ethereum, and the escape hatch

Each batch goes through three Ethereum transactions, all sent to Lighter’s contract 0x3B4D…5ca7, and the batch page links each one to Etherscan:

1. Commit. The batch’s state changes are posted as an EIP-4844 blob transaction. That data is enough for anyone to rebuild every account’s balance and positions without Lighter.
2. Verify. Ethereum checks the zero-knowledge proof that every trade, liquidation and funding payment in the batch followed the exchange’s rules.
3. Execute. The contract applies the new state root. Withdrawals in the batch become claimable.

How long it takes. In three batches we timed on October 15, 2026, commit to execution took 17–20 minutes, and the first block of each batch reached execution 25–30 minutes after it was produced. Your trade is final on Lighter immediately; this delay is how long it takes until Ethereum has proven it.

The escape hatch. Lighter’s docs describe a priority request queue on Ethereum: you can send a withdrawal, a public-pool exit or a reduce-only IOC order directly to the contract, and the sequencer must process it within a set time. If it does not, the contract enters Escape Hatch mode (called desert mode in the contract): it freezes, and users rebuild their state from the data on Ethereum and withdraw everything with a proof. You can check the flag yourself on Etherscan under Read as Proxy → desertMode; it read false on October 15, 2026. This is the main custody difference from exchanges that run their own chain; the trade-offs are in our Lighter review.

9. The API alternative

Everything in the explorer is also available as JSON, without an API key:

Explorer API limits (rate-limits page, updated October 13, 2026): 90 weighted requests per minute for every account type; search costs 3, accounts/* 2, everything else 1. All calls above were tested on October 15, 2026.

For market data (trades, order books, candles, funding and liquidations), use the main REST and WebSocket API: our Lighter API guide lists the endpoints, parameters and limits, with a working example.

10. Limits and gotchas

• Everything is public. Positions, PnL, balances and history are readable by anyone who has your address or index. Trading without KYC is not anonymity.
• Times are local. The explorer shows your browser’s time zone; the API returns UTC.
• Transactions are not trades. Block and network transaction counts include every order, modify and cancel. Count logs of type Trade if you want fills.
• Pending is not failed. A pending log is final on Lighter and waiting for its batch to be proven on Ethereum.
• Robinhood Chain is a separate exchange. Lighter on Robinhood Chain has its own endpoints and chain ID, so its accounts do not appear on the mainnet explorer; Litscan links a separate site for it.
• Never sign anything to view data. The explorer needs no wallet connection. A “Lighter scan” site that asks you to connect and sign is a phishing risk; the official front ends are app.lighter.xyz and lighter.exchange.

Using Hyperliquid as well? The same lookups there work differently (one address, no account index): see our Hyperliquid explorer guide.

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Disclosure: 718610TD (Lighter) and HOLYGRAIL (Hyperliquid) are our referral codes; we earn a share of referred accounts’ fees at no cost to you. Links to Lighter’s official explorer on this page also carry 718610TD. We have no relationship with Litscan, LighterPulse, L2BEAT, Etherscan, 0xArchive or Tardis.dev. Explorer screens, API responses and Ethereum transactions were read on October 15, 2026 (UTC); counters and timings are dated snapshots. Nothing here is financial advice.