LIGHTER EVM DEVNET LIVE WITH OPENVM AND AXIOM

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Lighter launched an EVM-equivalent rollup devnet, built with Axiom and proved by OpenVM, running alongside Lighter Core, their existing high-performance order book engine. Both execution layers settle to Ethereum with a single shared ZK proof, so the EVM rollup and the order book achieve joint finality in one proof cycle. Developers can deploy smart contracts on the EVM layer while Lighter Core handles order matching, with both environments settling atomically on Ethereum rather than through separate proof pipelines.