Telegram Wallet Partners With Lighter to Launch Leveraged Perpetual Futures

Custodial service Wallet in Telegram has integrated decentralized exchange Lighter to roll out perpetual futures trading directly within the messaging platform ¹. The partnership enables access to leveraged long and short contracts for the service's estimated base of more than 150 million users ¹.

The integration supports trading across more than 50 major digital assets, including $TON, $BTC, and $ETH ¹. Users can execute positions with up to 50x leverage while also gaining exposure to real-world asset instruments covering equities, metals, exchange-traded funds, and crude oil, all hosted within Telegram's native app interface ¹. Andrew Rogozov, founder and chief executive officer of The Open Platform (TOP) and Wallet in Telegram, stated that embedding Lighter aims to make complex derivative strategies accessible directly where consumers already custody assets and communicate ¹.

Derivatives Shift Into Consumer Interfaces

The rollout highlights an ongoing push across consumer platforms to integrate complex derivatives into simplified user workflows. Similar retail-focused expansions have emerged elsewhere in digital finance, such as when Robinhood introduced in-app perpetual futures to lower trading barriers.

According to data cited by TOP, global perpetuals trading volume approached nearly $8 trillion in 2025, marking an annual expansion exceeding 300% ¹. The partnership leverages Lighter's decentralized infrastructure to facilitate off-exchange settlement while maintaining execution natively inside the messaging app ¹. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at $81,377 and Ether at $2,380 amid broader market consolidation.