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Welcome to Lightbeam

LBLightbeam Team
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Cheetah — Lightbeam

Built natively on the Keeta blockchain, Lightbeam is a leap into the future of on-chain trading. Whether you're looking to buy low and sell high or just want to hold onto your assets for the long haul, our platform has you covered.

💡 What Makes Lightbeam Different?

At its core, Lightbeam is fully non-custodial, meaning we never hold any funds. Every trade runs through atomic swaps (soon to be native Orders), ensuring secure, trustless execution.

Lightbeam embraces Keeta's native orderbook operations—meaning no smart contract vulnerabilities, lightning-fast execution (up to 11 million TPS!), and complete decentralization.

Our Concentrated Liquidity Pools are a unique concept for orderbooks. They allow you to provide concentrated, on-chain liquidity on any trading pair with a custom price curve.

🧑‍🚀 Meet the Team Behind the Beam

Our core developers Splinter and Smasher make the platform shine, with over four years of deep DeFi protocol development experience.

We have a proven record of delivering high performance web3 products at scale:

  • DeadRare: Alephium's first NFT marketplace. We built the trading engine and interface from scratch, learning what it takes to bootstrap a decentralized NFT economy.
  • Nightshade Finance: The network's first on-chain orderbook DEX. Here we gained hands-on experience in matching engines, liquidity systems, and building secure, real-time trading infrastructure.

These projects taught us how to ship fast, secure, and scalable DeFi platforms—lessons that now power everything we do with Lightbeam.

🛸 Why did we choose Keeta?

Lightbeam leverages Keeta's DAG-based architecture, where each wallet is its own mini-blockchain. This enables parallel execution and insane scalability—think millions of trades per second, minimal latency, and real-time responsiveness.

Keeta isn't just fast—it's built for finance, making it the ideal foundation for Lightbeam's mission to bridge the gap between crypto-native and institutional-grade trading.

🔭 What's Next?

Lightbeam is just getting started.

We're building in the open and always listening. Join the conversation on our Discord.

Let's make Lightbeam the brightest star in DeFi.