Litecoin LTC
coin with its own chainRank 26 by market cap
On-chain metrics
over 90 days| Metric | Latest | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Active addresses per day | 256,404 | −8.2 % |
| Transactions per day | 161,892 | −12.3 % |
| Daily fees, in coin | 7.91 | −7.2 % |
| Daily issuance, coins | 3,668.75 | −3.1 % |
| Circulating supply, coins | 77,614,032 | +0.4 % |
| Hash rate | 2.7K | −3.6 % |
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · source: Coin Metrics Community
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Key figures
- Market cap
- 4.17 B $supply as of 2026-09-17
- FDV
- 4.52 B $of the maximum supply
- 24h turnover
- 14.3 M $
- Turnover to market cap
- 0.34 %
- Circulating
- 77.6 M LTC
- Market cap rank
- 26
About the coin
Launched in 2011 as a lighter copy of Bitcoin: Charlie Lee took the same code and changed the parameters — a block every two and a half minutes instead of ten, a cap of 84 million coins instead of 21 million, Scrypt mining instead of SHA-256. The intent was faster payment confirmation and mining that stayed within reach of ordinary hardware for longer.
The network has run without interruption longer than almost any other and has spent decades as a proving ground: several protocol changes were tested here before reaching Bitcoin. The block reward halves on the same principle but on its own schedule, and an optional extension was added later that lets amounts and addresses be concealed.
In practice its use comes down to transfers and settlement between trading venues: an application ecosystem of its own never took shape here. Several protocol changes later adopted by Bitcoin were switched on in this network first.
That optional privacy extension prompted some regulated venues to delist the coin, even though transfers remain transparent by default.
A reference description of the project, not investment advice.
Price chart
Where it trades
Turnover is what the venue itself reports; we do not verify it, so the order in the table is not a reliability ranking.
| Venue | 24h turnover | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | 14.1 M $ | 45.6 % |
| Toobit | 12.9 M $ | 4.7 % |
| BitDelta | 11.2 M $ | 4.1 % |
| FameEX | 10.7 M $ | 3.9 % |
| Biconomy.com | 10.4 M $ | 3.8 % |
Return by period
Periods from a week are calendar-based, from midnight UTC. The 24-hour figure is a rolling window from the current price — different bases, not a discrepancy.
| Period | LTC | BTC | ETH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 hoursrolling | +5.00 % | +0.64 % | +1.79 % |
| 7 days | −2.99 % | −2.30 % | −1.70 % |
| 30 days | +15.91 % | +18.51 % | +26.78 % |
| 90 days | +17.78 % | +21.47 % | +41.78 % |
| year to date | −32.78 % | −12.74 % | −18.36 % |
| 1 year | −55.09 % | −34.52 % | −46.10 % |
Supply and issuance
We compute market cap from circulating supply, so its date matters as much as the price.
- Circulating
- 77.6 M LTC
- Total issued
- 77.6 M LTC
- Maximum
- 84.0 M LTC
Risk and statistics
Computed by us from our own history. This section shows no buy/sell ratings — these are values, not verdicts.
- 30d volatility
- 56.61 %
- 90d volatility
- 42.61 %
- Maximum drawdown over a year
- −67.50 %
- Maximum drawdown all time
- −93.44 %
- Beta to bitcoin
- 0,85
- Correlation with bitcoin
- 0,71
- From the all-time high
- −86.68 %All-time high: 387.80 $, 2021-05-09
- From the all-time low
- +123.83 %All-time low: 23.08 $, 2018-12-13
- 52-week range
- 40.92 — 125.90 $
- History depth
- 3200 days
Technical indicators
- RSI (14)
- 57.1
- Distance from MA50
- +6.07 %
- Distance from MA200
- +2.51 %
- 24-hour range
- 50.86 — 54.08 $
- 24h turnover
- 14.3 M $
Converter
At the price as of 22:20 UTC — a moment's rate, not a live tick.
1 LTC = 53.77 $
Similar coins
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Coin sectors: Smart Contract Platform, Proof of Work (PoW), Privacy, Infrastructure
Sources and coverage
- Price: Binance, pair LTCUSDT.
- History: 3200 days in our database
- Market cap and supply — Powered by CoinGecko
- Prices — Binance public market data