# Lighter: newest node / prover software release Pages read 2026-10-27, about 14:20–14:40 UTC. The GitHub data came from the GitHub REST API (`/orgs/elliottech/repos`, `/repos/elliottech//releases`, `/tags`, `/commits`) and the github.com release pages listed below. ## Software - **Main node / sequencer software: closed source. No public repository found.** The `elliottech` GitHub org (https://github.com/elliottech) has 19 public repositories (listed via https://api.github.com/orgs/elliottech/repos). None of them is a sequencer, node or witness-generator implementation. Lighter's docs describe the components as a Sequencer, API servers, Witness Generator services and the Lighter Prover (https://docs.lighter.xyz/about-lighter/technical-architecture-lighter-core). For Lighter EVM they also describe a "witness node" and a "witness coordinator" (https://docs.lighter.xyz/evm/technical-architecture). Neither page links to source code for these. - Lighter is not built on an upstream rollup stack (OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, ZK Stack, etc.). L2BEAT calls it "an application-specific zk rollup" and a "Stage 0 Appchain ZK Rollup" (https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/lighter). Lighter maintains its own software (GitHub org `elliottech`). - **Public repos related to the rollup:** - https://github.com/elliottech/lighter-prover: "Lighter Prover and Circuits" (README). Top-level folders include `circuit`, `desertexit`, `plonky2`, `p3`, `snark`. L2BEAT links this repo and says it "contains the circuits and prover code for both normal and desert operation mode of Lighter" (https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/lighter). - https://github.com/elliottech/lighter-contracts: the L1 contracts (README: "Lighter Contracts", Business Source License 1.1). - https://github.com/elliottech/gnark-plonky2-verifier: a fork of `succinctlabs/gnark-plonky2-verifier` (GitHub API `parent`). - https://github.com/elliottech/gnark-ignition-verifier - https://github.com/elliottech/plonky2: "Fork of the https://github.com/0xPolygonZero/plonky2" (repo description). - https://github.com/elliottech/poseidon_crypto - https://github.com/elliottech/zeknox - **Client SDKs (not node software):** `lighter-go` ("Public Go SDK for Lighter"), `lighter-python`, `lighter-ts`. ## Newest node release **NOT FOUND. The node/sequencer is closed source, so there is no public release.** See "Software" for the org listing that was checked. No repo in https://github.com/elliottech is node software. For context only (this is **not** node software): the newest release of the official Go SDK is: - Repository: https://github.com/elliottech/lighter-go - Tag: `v1.0.12`. Title: "v1.0.12". Published: 2026-10-19T16:48:50Z (https://github.com/elliottech/lighter-go/releases/tag/v1.0.12). Not a pre-release. - Change: "Updated the MarketIndex field name in binary options transactions." ## Newest prover release **The main prover repository has no releases and no tags.** - Repository: https://github.com/elliottech/lighter-prover - https://github.com/elliottech/lighter-prover/releases shows "There aren't any releases here". - https://api.github.com/repos/elliottech/lighter-prover/tags returns an empty list. - Latest commit on the default branch: `16c0f36d75`, "Sync circuits", 2026-10-12T20:30:56Z (https://api.github.com/repos/elliottech/lighter-prover/commits). The two commits before it are `579f3d15ce` "Optimizations, more margined assets, fixes" (2026-10-07T22:40:49Z) and `28ae613d9c` "Binary options support" (2026-09-20T12:58:25Z). These are commits, not releases. - **Newest release among the proof-system component repos** (the Plonky2-to-gnark verifier wrapper, a fork of Succinct's): - Repository: https://github.com/elliottech/gnark-plonky2-verifier - Tag: `v0.1.0`. Release title: "bump_ignition_verifier". - Published: 2026-10-08T09:18:05Z (`datetime` on https://github.com/elliottech/gnark-plonky2-verifier/releases/tag/v0.1.0). - Marked "Latest". Not a pre-release. https://github.com/elliottech/gnark-plonky2-verifier/releases/latest redirects to v0.1.0. - Change: the release notes are empty. The title suggests a bump of the ignition verifier dependency, but that is a reading of the title, not of the notes. - Previous release with notes: `v0.0.8`, 2026-09-14T16:40:21Z, "Verifier range-checks public inputs instead of relying on the caller providing them safely." (https://github.com/elliottech/gnark-plonky2-verifier/releases/tag/v0.0.8) - `poseidon_crypto` (hash library used by the circuits): `v0.0.19`, published 2026-10-05T03:03:48Z, empty notes, not a pre-release (https://github.com/elliottech/poseidon_crypto/releases/tag/v0.0.19). - **No releases (checked via the API):** `lighter-contracts` (also checked https://github.com/elliottech/lighter-contracts/releases: "There aren't any releases here"), `plonky2` (also checked https://github.com/elliottech/plonky2/releases: none), `gnark-ignition-verifier`, `zeknox`. - `lighter-contracts`: latest commit `5896c8f142`, "Pause mechanisms, update verifiers", 2026-10-12T20:11:26Z (https://api.github.com/repos/elliottech/lighter-contracts/commits). - L2BEAT's changelog entry for 2026 September 28, 13:09 UTC says "New verifier deployed, successfully reproduced from sources." (https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/lighter). This is the build-from-source path L2BEAT uses for the prover, since there are no tagged releases. ## Operator docs version **NOT FOUND.** Lighter's docs have no "run a node" or "node operators" page. - I listed every page in the docs sitemaps: - https://docs.lighter.xyz/sitemap-pages.xml - https://docs.lighter.xyz/developers/sitemap-pages.xml - https://docs.lighter.xyz/api/sitemap-pages.xml - https://docs.lighter.xyz/evm/sitemap-pages.xml - https://docs.lighter.xyz/programs/sitemap-pages.xml - None of these pages has "node" or "run-a" in its path. The only operator-adjacent page, https://docs.lighter.xyz/evm/json-rpc-api, documents the standard Ethereum JSON-RPC methods for using Lighter EVM. It names no node software and no version. - The docs describe the Sequencer, Witness Generator and Prover as services run by Lighter (https://docs.lighter.xyz/about-lighter/technical-architecture-lighter-core). They give no operator instructions. ## Not found - **Public source or release for the Lighter sequencer/node (Lighter Core, witness generator, Lighter EVM nodes).** Checked: - the org repository list, https://api.github.com/orgs/elliottech/repos (19 repos) - https://github.com/elliottech - the docs architecture pages above - **A tagged release of `lighter-prover`.** Checked: - https://github.com/elliottech/lighter-prover/releases ("There aren't any releases here") - the tags API (empty) - **A tagged release of `lighter-contracts`.** Checked: - https://github.com/elliottech/lighter-contracts/releases - the tags API (empty) - **Node-operator docs and a recommended version.** Checked all docs sitemaps listed above. No such page exists. - **Release notes for `gnark-plonky2-verifier` v0.1.0 and `poseidon_crypto` v0.0.19.** The release bodies are empty on GitHub.