Get Lighter liquidation events JSON Schema

Source OpenAPI: 0xArchive API 1.6.1; 151 paths; 141 component schemas. Get Lighter liquidation events in a bounded time range using cursor pagination. Lighter liquidations are available only from the start of live capture; no public historical backfill is available before that window. Explicit endpoint cost is 3 credits per request.

Route Metadata

Field	Value
Method	`GET`
Path	`/v1/lighter/liquidations/{symbol}`
operationId	`getLighterLiquidations`
Tag	Lighter - Liquidations
Family	Lighter
Deprecated or legacy	no

Request Parameters

Path Parameters

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "getLighterLiquidations path parameters",
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "symbol"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "symbol": {
      "description": "Lighter market symbol.",
      "type": "string",
      "example": "BTC",
      "x-parameter-location": "path"
    }
  }
}

Query Parameters

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "getLighterLiquidations query parameters",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "start": {
      "description": "Start timestamp in Unix milliseconds. Defaults depend on the route family.",
      "type": "integer",
      "format": "int64",
      "x-parameter-location": "query"
    },
    "end": {
      "description": "End timestamp in Unix milliseconds. Defaults to now.",
      "type": "integer",
      "format": "int64",
      "x-parameter-location": "query"
    },
    "cursor": {
      "description": "Cursor for pagination. Use the value from the previous response metadata.",
      "type": "string",
      "x-parameter-location": "query"
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "Maximum number of results (default: 100, max: 1000)",
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 100,
      "maximum": 1000,
      "x-parameter-location": "query"
    }
  }
}

Response Contracts

Status 200

Lighter liquidation events

application/json

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "getLighterLiquidations response 200",
  "description": "API response containing an array of native Lighter liquidation events",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "data": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "description": "Native Lighter liquidation event. Raw ask/bid account fields are preserved instead of a derived `liquidated_user`: the upstream payload does not reliably flag which side was liquidated, so the liquidated side is derived at read time from position signs. Margin and fee integer fields are raw upstream units.",
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "ask_account",
          "ask_order_id",
          "bid_account",
          "bid_order_id",
          "block_height",
          "is_maker_ask",
          "liquidation_type",
          "maker_allocated_margin_usdc_after",
          "maker_allocated_margin_usdc_before",
          "maker_entry_quote_before",
          "maker_fee",
          "maker_initial_margin_fraction_before",
          "maker_position_sign_changed",
          "maker_position_size_before",
          "price",
          "raw_json",
          "size",
          "source",
          "symbol",
          "taker_allocated_margin_usdc_after",
          "taker_allocated_margin_usdc_before",
          "taker_entry_quote_before",
          "taker_fee",
          "taker_initial_margin_fraction_before",
          "taker_position_sign_changed",
          "taker_position_size_before",
          "timestamp",
          "trade_id",
          "transaction_time_us",
          "tx_hash",
          "usd_amount"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "ask_account": {
            "description": "Lighter account index on the ask side (serialized as a string)",
            "type": "string",
            "example": "728637"
          },
          "ask_order_id": {
            "description": "Order ID on the ask side",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 562952982931319
          },
          "bid_account": {
            "description": "Lighter account index on the bid side (serialized as a string)",
            "type": "string",
            "example": "726722"
          },
          "bid_order_id": {
            "description": "Order ID on the bid side",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 844421854021817
          },
          "block_height": {
            "description": "Lighter L2 block height containing the liquidation",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 300340672
          },
          "is_maker_ask": {
            "description": "True if the maker was on the ask side",
            "type": "boolean",
            "example": false
          },
          "liquidation_type": {
            "description": "Upstream liquidation type",
            "type": "string",
            "example": "liquidation"
          },
          "maker_allocated_margin_usdc_after": {
            "description": "Maker's isolated-margin USDC allocation after the fill (raw upstream units)",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 0
          },
          "maker_allocated_margin_usdc_before": {
            "description": "Maker's isolated-margin USDC allocation before the fill (raw upstream units)",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 0
          },
          "maker_entry_quote_before": {
            "description": "Maker's position entry quote value before the fill",
            "type": "number",
            "example": 120665.315247
          },
          "maker_fee": {
            "description": "Maker fee (raw upstream units)",
            "type": "integer",
            "example": 28
          },
          "maker_initial_margin_fraction_before": {
            "description": "Maker's initial margin fraction before the fill (raw upstream units)",
            "type": "integer",
            "example": 500
          },
          "maker_position_sign_changed": {
            "description": "True if the fill flipped the maker's position between long and short",
            "type": "boolean",
            "example": false
          },
          "maker_position_size_before": {
            "description": "Maker's signed position size before the fill",
            "type": "number",
            "example": -1.85452
          },
          "price": {
            "description": "Execution price",
            "type": "number",
            "example": 64921.9
          },
          "raw_json": {
            "description": "Raw upstream payload as received from Lighter.",
            "type": "string"
          },
          "size": {
            "description": "Liquidated size in base units",
            "type": "number",
            "example": 0.18476
          },
          "source": {
            "description": "Row provenance",
            "type": "string",
            "example": "ws"
          },
          "symbol": {
            "description": "Trading pair symbol",
            "type": "string",
            "example": "BTC"
          },
          "taker_allocated_margin_usdc_after": {
            "description": "Taker's isolated-margin USDC allocation after the fill (raw upstream units)",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 23859483
          },
          "taker_allocated_margin_usdc_before": {
            "description": "Taker's isolated-margin USDC allocation before the fill (raw upstream units)",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 259232053
          },
          "taker_entry_quote_before": {
            "description": "Taker's position entry quote value before the fill",
            "type": "number",
            "example": 12945.451185
          },
          "taker_fee": {
            "description": "Taker fee (raw upstream units)",
            "type": "integer",
            "example": 10000
          },
          "taker_initial_margin_fraction_before": {
            "description": "Taker's initial margin fraction before the fill (raw upstream units)",
            "type": "integer",
            "example": 200
          },
          "taker_position_sign_changed": {
            "description": "True if the fill flipped the taker's position between long and short",
            "type": "boolean",
            "example": false
          },
          "taker_position_size_before": {
            "description": "Taker's signed position size before the fill (long positive, short negative)",
            "type": "number",
            "example": 0.19771
          },
          "timestamp": {
            "description": "Liquidation timestamp in Unix epoch milliseconds",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 1785116108743
          },
          "trade_id": {
            "description": "Unique Lighter trade ID of the liquidation fill",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 26144238102
          },
          "transaction_time_us": {
            "description": "Intra-block transaction time in microseconds",
            "type": "integer",
            "format": "int64",
            "example": 1785116108751813
          },
          "tx_hash": {
            "description": "Lighter settlement transaction hash (fixed-width hex)",
            "type": "string",
            "example": "000000198190c10e0000019fa13627c7000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
          },
          "usd_amount": {
            "description": "Notional value of the liquidation in USD",
            "type": "number",
            "example": 11994.970244
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "meta": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "count": {
          "description": "Number of records returned",
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "next_cursor": {
          "description": "Cursor for pagination (format: timestamp_tradeId)",
          "type": "string",
          "nullable": true
        },
        "request_id": {
          "description": "Unique request ID for support",
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uuid"
        }
      }
    },
    "success": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "example": true
    }
  }
}

Status 400

Invalid request

application/json

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "getLighterLiquidations response 400",
  "description": "Error response",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "code": {
      "description": "HTTP status code",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "error": {
      "description": "Error message",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "error_code": {
      "description": "Machine-readable error code. Common values: `invalid_query_params` (a query parameter failed to parse or validate) and `invalid_path_params` (a path parameter failed to parse). Other endpoint-specific codes exist; treat unknown codes as generic errors of the given HTTP status.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "request_id": {
      "description": "Unique request ID for support",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uuid"
    }
  }
}

OpenAPI example

{
  "code": 400,
  "error": "Failed to deserialize query string: limit: invalid digit found in string",
  "error_code": "invalid_query_params",
  "request_id": "3f2a9c71-5b0e-4d68-9a4c-7e1d2b6f8a05"
}

Status 401

Authentication required

application/json

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "getLighterLiquidations response 401",
  "description": "Error response",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "code": {
      "description": "HTTP status code",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "error": {
      "description": "Error message",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "error_code": {
      "description": "Machine-readable error code. Common values: `invalid_query_params` (a query parameter failed to parse or validate) and `invalid_path_params` (a path parameter failed to parse). Other endpoint-specific codes exist; treat unknown codes as generic errors of the given HTTP status.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "request_id": {
      "description": "Unique request ID for support",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uuid"
    }
  }
}

OpenAPI example

{
  "code": 401,
  "error": "Missing or invalid API key. Provide X-API-Key header."
}

Status 429

Rate limit exceeded

application/json

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "getLighterLiquidations response 429",
  "description": "Error response",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "code": {
      "description": "HTTP status code",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "error": {
      "description": "Error message",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "error_code": {
      "description": "Machine-readable error code. Common values: `invalid_query_params` (a query parameter failed to parse or validate) and `invalid_path_params` (a path parameter failed to parse). Other endpoint-specific codes exist; treat unknown codes as generic errors of the given HTTP status.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "request_id": {
      "description": "Unique request ID for support",
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uuid"
    }
  }
}

OpenAPI example

{
  "code": 429,
  "error": "Rate limit exceeded"
}

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