{"id":112255,"date":"2025-11-11T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=112255"},"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:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=112255","title":{"rendered":"Perp DEX Space Heats up \u2014 Lighter Ignites $68M Fundraise as Investors Flock to Defi\u2019s Next Big Thing"},"content":{"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 [\u2026]<\/p>","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":0,"featured_media":112256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}