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Fast blocks, proof-of-work mining.
Litecoin forked from the Bitcoin codebase in 2011 and kept the same broad design, a public ledger secured by miners, with a few deliberate changes that make transfers faster and lighter. Four ideas make that work.
The public ledger
Every transaction lives in one shared chain of blocks that anyone can download and verify. Anyone can run a node and check the full history back to the first block in 2011.
Proof of Work, with Scrypt
Miners compete to add each block by solving a Scrypt hashing puzzle, rather than Bitcoin's SHA-256. The work secures the chain and earns the block reward, which halves roughly every four years.
Faster blocks
Litecoin targets a new block about every 2.5 minutes, four times faster than Bitcoin. Confirmations arrive sooner, which suits fast, low-fee everyday payments and value transfer.
Capped supply
Litecoin has a maximum supply of 84 million LTC, four times Bitcoin's 21 million. The halving schedule slows issuance over time until the cap is reached.
Broadcast
You send LTC. The transaction is signed with your private key and broadcast to the network, where nodes collect it into the pool of pending transactions waiting for the next block.
Mine
Miners race to solve the Scrypt proof-of-work puzzle for a candidate block. The first to find a valid solution gets to add the block and collect the reward plus fees.
Confirm
The new block joins the chain, about every 2.5 minutes. Each block built on top adds another confirmation, making the transaction harder and harder to reverse.
- Fast payments, ~2.5 minute target block time
- Lightning Network, low-cost off-chain transfers
- SegWit, more efficient transaction format
- MWEB, an optional more private transaction feature
Litecoin keeps the Bitcoin model and tunes it for everyday payments, with faster blocks and optional upgrades layered on top of a proven base.
A network you can verify.
Litecoin has run continuously since 2011 and is one of the longest-lived cryptocurrencies. The qualities below describe how the network is built and secured, not the price.
Continuous since 2011. Litecoin has produced blocks without interruption for over a decade, securing the chain with proof-of-work mining the whole way.
Fast, low-fee everyday payments and value transfer are Litecoin's core purpose, the reason behind the faster blocks.
What Litecoin is used for.
The network is focused on fast, low-fee payments and value transfer, with a handful of optional upgrades layered on. Here is where it is actually used, and how it fits into the wider crypto economy.
Everyday payments
Fast, low-fee transfers are Litecoin's original purpose. A ~2.5 minute block time means confirmations arrive quickly, which suits point-of-sale and peer-to-peer payments.
Lightning Network
With SegWit in place, Litecoin supports the Lightning Network for fast, low-cost off-chain payments that settle back to the main chain.
Store of value
A capped supply of 84 million LTC and a halving schedule give Litecoin a scarcity model similar to Bitcoin, which some holders treat as a long-term store of value.
MWEB transactions
The optional MWEB upgrade, added in 2022, offers more private and compact transactions for users who opt in, while standard transfers stay public.
Silver to Bitcoin's gold
Litecoin is often described as a lighter, faster complement to Bitcoin, built on the same model with quicker blocks. Learn the basics in our crypto basics guides.
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Litecoin isn't in the Zypto App yet. Post the request to your followers and ask them to add their voice, we prioritize the chains with the most demand. Everything above stays fully live either way.
Available in the Zypto App · native asset
Litecoin's native asset is LTC. When integrated, it would be held in self-custody, your keys, your coins.
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Over a decade of payments, plainly told.
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