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Litecoin

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$86.76

0.46%

Oct 8th, 2011

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Layer 1 (L1)

Proof of Work (PoW)

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24-Hour Range

$86.14

$87.76

Low

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Rank

#25

Mcap

$6.60B

Fully Diluted Mcap

$6.60B

Supply

Circulating

76,040,008

Total

84,000,000

Created On

Oct 8th, 2011

All Time High (ATH)

ATH

$410.26

ATH Change

-78.86%

ATH Date

May 10th, 2021

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TVL

N/A

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What is Litecoin (LTC) ?

Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that's designed to be quicker at processing transactions than Bitcoin. It was created by a former Google employee called Charlie Lee and uses a different consensus algorithm to process transactions that allow more people to become miners.

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Litecoin News

Jun 14, 2025

Law and Order

Crypto-Related Anti-Money Laundering Reports Rose by 8% in Germany Last Year: FIU

Anti-money laundering reports involving cryptocurrencies rose by 8.2% in Germany last year, according to the annual report from the German Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Total crypto-related reports climbed from 8,049 in 2023 to hit 8,711, accounting for a record 3.3% of all suspicious activity reports (SARs) submitted to the FIU, the agency responsible in Germany for combating money laundering. The total figure marks a 23.6% increase since 2020, with Bitcoin predominating in the vast majori...

by Simon Chandler · 3 min read

May 29, 2025

Technology

BitcoinOS Sees 'Renaissance' for Litecoin With Its First Ever ZK Rollup

For years, Litecoin's narrative as the digital silver to Bitcoin's gold has appeared to be on the wane, with its price down some 76% from its all-time high set more than four years ago. But that doesn’t mean Litecoin has been forgotten. On the occasion of the Litecoin Summit, BitcoinOS has revealed that it's pioneering a trustless ZK rollup for Litecoin. "Litecoin is one of the biggest chains out there with a massive audience," Edan Yago, co-founder and core contributor to BitcoinOS, told Decryp...

by Vince Dioquino · 3 min read

May 5, 2025

Markets

SEC Punts on Canary Capital Litecoin ETF Approval

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday stopped short of giving the green light to a new crypto exchange-traded fund that would give investors exposure to Litecoin. The Wall Street regulator instead decided to delay giving an answer to the proposed product—which is a perfectly normal step for such applications. Nashville, Tennessee-based Canary Capital filed the paperwork in October for the Canary Litecoin ETF. The SEC currently has dozens of altcoin ETF applications to consider f...

by Mat Di Salvo · 2 min read

Apr 25, 2025

Markets

Biotech Firm's Shares Plummet Amid Planned Pivot to Dogecoin Mining

Biopharmaceutical and technologies company Coeptis Therapeutics is merging with Dogecoin mining company Z Squared Inc., with the combined stated aim of becoming the largest publicly traded Dogecoin miner. But shareholders don't appear keen on the plan, as shares of Coeptis are down nearly 40% on the day to $7.53 as investors react to the news. The boards of both companies have agreed to the merger, which is subject to closing conditions and both regulatory and shareholder approval. “We are exc...

by Logan Hitchcock · 3 min read

Apr 2, 2025

Markets

Fidelity Now Allows Customers to Invest in Bitcoin, Ethereum for Retirement

Fund manager Fidelity is allowing its clients to invest in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin via individual retirement accounts. Starting Wednesday, investors have been able to get exposure to three virtual coins, which Fidelity already offers via its crypto trading service, by opening a "crypto IRA." Decrypt reached out to Fidelity for comment. The firm, which is the U.S.'s largest provider of 401(k) savings accounts, will custody the assets with the new service. Bitcoin is the biggest crypto...

by Mat Di Salvo · 2 min read

Feb 19, 2025

Markets

SEC Acknowledges CoinShares XRP and Litecoin ETF Filings

Wall Street’s top regulator is mulling over applications from European asset manager CoinShares to approve the world’s first U.S.-based spot XRP and Litecoin exchange-traded funds, a Wednesday filing shows. The funds would track the performance of XRP, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap and Litecoin, which ranks 15th in value. The assets are among the oldest altcoins to enter the market following Bitcoin’s 2009 start. The SEC said in the filing that comments should be submi...

by Mat Di Salvo · 2 min read

Jan 16, 2025

Markets

Litecoin Price Jumps Double-Digits As ETF Speculation Ramps Up

The price of Litecoin soared by double-digits in the past 24 hours to reach a four-week high of $118, as optimism brews around the potential approval of a Litecoin-based exchange-traded fund. At time of publication, Litecoin is trading at around $117, up 15.1% on the day, per data from CoinGecko. Litecoin's surge followed Canary Capital’s amendment to its S-1 registration form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 15, a move analysts interpret as a major step toward r...

by Vismaya V · 3 min read

Oct 15, 2024

Markets

Canary Capital Files for Litecoin ETF Just Days After XRP Move

Canary Capital announced Tuesday that it has filed an S-1 registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with the intent of launching a Litecoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The move comes less than a week after Canary Capital fired an application to launch an XRP-based ETF, following in the footsteps of asset manager Bitwise, which submitted its own XRP ETF application on October 1. Such moves signal continued interest in crypto-backed ETFs, following the SEC’s earlier appro...

by Murtuza Merchant · 2 min read

Mar 29, 2024

Markets

Litecoin Price Spikes After CFTC Calls It Commodity Alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum

Meme coin lovers may be having a great month, but Litecoin (LTC) hodlers are celebrating today with their coin taking the spot as the second best-performing cryptocurrency in the top 100, with a bullish performance in the last 24 hours that saw its price spike nearly 11%. This comes on the fifth day of relatively slow markets, with Bitcoin and Ethereum correcting by less than 2% in the same period. The global cryptocurrency market cap today sits at $2.79 trillion, marking a mere -0.1% change in...

by Jose Antonio Lanz · 3 min read

Aug 2, 2023

Coins

Litecoin Just Had Its Third Halving—Here's What That Means for LTC

The rate of newly issued Litecoin, the 12th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has today shrunk in an event called “the halving.” Just like Bitcoin, every four years or so, the supply of Litecoin rewards given out as mining rewards gets cut in half, meaning fewer of the digital coins are created. The idea is to lower the rate of inflation on the network—fewer coins mean higher value per coin. In theory, this should drive up the price, if everything else about the network stays the same. “Lik...

by Mat Di Salvo · 2 min read

Jun 30, 2023

Markets

Remember Litecoin? The Silver to Bitcoin's 'Digital Gold' Is Soaring

Earlier today, it was Bitcoin Cash—now, it's Litecoin. The two cryptocurrencies have received renewed interest from investors since Wall Street-backed EDX Markets listed them last week. Both were arguably fading into obscurity but are now soaring—especially Litecoin, which just reentered the top 10 biggest digital assets by market cap. The Bitcoin fork is up 23.6% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko, trading hands for $104.63. That makes it one of the best-performing digital assets rig...

by Mat Di Salvo · 3 min read

May 20, 2023

Coins

Meme Tokens and NFTs Took Over Bitcoin—Now It's Happening on Dogecoin and Litecoin

Meme coins are on the rise in unfamiliar places thanks to Ordinals, the project launched in January on the Bitcoin network. It started with an NFT-like effort to "inscribe" assets like artwork and profile pictures onto Bitcoin’s blockchain, but soon evolved to support BRC-20 tokens minted using the same protocol. Now, thanks to the sensation surrounding Ordinal inscriptions and meme tokens on Bitcoin—not to mention the increasingly high network fees that resulted—inscribers have brought the late...

by Jason Nelson · 5 min read

May 18, 2023

Business

Litecoin Activity Hits All-Time High Thanks to Ordinals Mania

Ordinal mania has caused increased blockchain activity—but not just on Bitcoin’s network: Litecoin, the 12th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is experiencing a huge surge in transactions. Litecoin’s blockchain last week experienced over 584,838 transactions in one day, the highest in its history, according to crypto data website Bitinfocharts. Activity has since dipped—363,855 transactions took place yesterday—but Litecoin use is still higher than it has ever been. The cryptocurrency, w...

by Mat Di Salvo · 2 min read

Feb 20, 2023

Coins

Coder Brings Ordinals to Litecoin as Bitcoin Inscriptions Surpass 154K

Ordinal Inscriptions and the ability to mint content other than transactions on the Bitcoin network have taken the blockchain by storm, with over 154,000 inscriptions created to date, according to Dune analytics. Now, a developer has adapted the Ordinals project for rival proof-of-work blockchain Litecoin. Launched in 2011, Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency designed to be quicker at processing transactions than Bitcoin. Litecoin was created by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee, who s...

by Jason Nelson · 3 min read

Nov 22, 2022

Coins

Solana Market Cap Shrinks Below Litecoin in Protracted Descent

The market cap of the popular proof-of-stake blockchain, Solana, slipped below that of the OG proof-of-work blockchain, Litecoin, according to Coingecko. Once dubbed the "Ethereum Killer," Solana's SOL token began 2022 trading at $178.89, with a market capitalization of $55.09 billion in January 2022. Then came crypto winter, the merge that saw Ethereum—the once proof-of-work blockchain—switch to proof-of-stake, and the fallout from the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Now, SOL is curren...

by Jason Nelson · 3 min read

Jun 8, 2022

Coins

Crypto Exchanges Delist Litecoin Over Privacy Feature Concerns

Litecoin will be delisted on Bithumb and Upbit, two South Korean Crypto exchanges, over modifications made to the coin that enable greater privacy when conducting transactions. In their notices regarding Litecoin, Bithumb and Upbit stated they were shutting down market support for the 20th-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization because its newly activated Mimblewimble Extension Blocks (MWEB) network upgrade conflicts with South Korean anti-money laundering (AML) regulation. Upbit pointe...

by André Beganski · 3 min read

Oct 5, 2021

Business

Fifth-Largest Bank in U.S. Now Offering Bitcoin Custody Services

U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest banking institution in the United States, today announced that it has launched custodial services for Bitcoin. Institutional investment managers with private funds in the U.S. or the Cayman Islands can now tap the bank’s service to store their private keys. The bank is working with financial services and technology firm New York Digital Investment Group, or NYDIG, as its first sub-custodian for the service. U.S. Bank previously signed on to administer NYDIG’s planned...

by Andrew Hayward · 3 min read

Sep 13, 2021

Business

Litecoin Surges on Debunked Walmart News

Editor's note: A Monday morning press release that bore Walmart's logo and corporate headquarters turned out to be fake, Walmart announced. Decrypt was among a number of media outlets that published the news. Our story was quickly amended. A press release from what appeared to be Walmart announced that the giant retailer would be accepting Litecoin for payment. Coverage of the news drove Litecoin's price 34.6%, until Walmart announced that the press release was fake. The apparent pump and dump s...

by Liam J. Kelly · 1 min read

Sep 4, 2021

Coins

Litecoin and Dfinity Surged More Than 10% Overnight

Altcoins Litecoin and Dfinity both made significant overnight gains today as crypto’s global market capitalization inched forward by less than a percent to settle on $2.53 trillion. Litecoin shot up from fifteenth to thirteenth on the cryptocurrency market capitalization leaderboard as the coin's value blew up 16.2% overnight to secure a price of $221.60. Litecoin currently has a market cap of $14.75 billion. Litecoin was launched in October 2011, almost three years after Bitcoin. It was create...

by Tim Hakki · 2 min read

Aug 22, 2021

Business

PayPal Launches Crypto Services in UK

Starting Monday, PayPal’s U.K. customers can buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. Customers can buy as little as £1 ($1.3) worth of the cryptocurrencies using their bank account, PayPal balance, or debit card through a crypto tab on PayPal's website and mobile app. The U.K. is the second nation to access these services after the digital payments behemoth rolled out its crypto suite in the U.S. in October 2020. It offers the same four coins to U.S. customers. PayPal...

by Ekin Genç · 2 min read