Lighter CEO Vlad Novakovski on AI trading, tokenized stocks and legal perps
econoar · x · 2026-07-24
A full interview with Lighter founder and CEO Vlad Novakovski covers how AI is being used in trading, why narrative traders may still win, and the race around tokenized stocks and legal perpetuals. The conversation also touches on whether buybacks matter, trading compute markets, surviving the downswing, and what Lighter is building next.
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