Litecoin · LTC
A fair-launch proof-of-work coin built for fast, cheap payments
A proven fair-launch payments coin you must hold to transact, and one of the most-used coins for real merchant checkout — but mining keeps minting new supply with no buyback, and no serious VC builds a live story around a fast payments chain.
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LTC · clockwork mining emission with nothing on the other side.
LTC is the native coin of Litecoin, a fair-launch proof-of-work chain running since 2011 — 84M hard cap, ~77.55M circulating, about 92% already mined.
Sell pressure. Mining is the only mint — 6.25 LTC per block, and the chain sealed 51,454 blocks in the window — one every 151 seconds against a 150-second target — for 0.322M LTC. A Nasdaq-listed treasury company sold LTC into the window to fund a share buyback, but those coins were already circulating, so they change hands instead of adding supply and are tracked as an overhang rather than booked. No vesting, no protocol reserve.
Buy pressure. Nothing, and checked from both sides. There is no burn address and no fee sink, every block pays the subsidy plus fees to the miner, and no supply meter fell across the window — so the buy ledger is empty at 0.
Net. Steady mining and nothing at all on the buy side — ~+0.41% of supply reaches the market over 90 days, and the same again is projected forward. No halving falls in either window; the next one is about a year out, around Jul 2027.
Scrypt proof-of-work mining is the only mint Litecoin has. The block subsidy is 6.25 LTC, and the chain actually sealed 51,454 blocks across this window — one block every 151 seconds against a 150-second target, or about 572 a day — which carried 321,588 LTC to miners. Counting the blocks rather than trusting the target matters: the nominal rate would have overstated the emission by 0.75%. The subsidy halves to 3.125 LTC at block 3,360,000, about 191,600 blocks past this window and roughly a year out, so no halving lands inside the window behind or the window ahead.
Litecoin launched in Oct 2011 with no presale and no insider allocation, so there is no vesting contract and no unlock calendar that could ever fire. On-chain supply still sits 0.006% below the running total of every block subsidy ever paid, which is the proof that nothing has been minted outside the block reward.
The Litecoin Foundation is donation-funded and holds no protocol allocation, so there is no insider reserve to release. Two identified group-controlled blocks are tracked instead. A recovery output of 85,034 LTC, created by a validation bug in Mar 2026 and pegged back into the privacy extension at block 3,078,098, is frozen by consensus and cannot move. A Nasdaq-listed treasury company still held 819,070 LTC at its Jul 17 2026 disclosure and has been selling to fund a share buyback — but it bought those coins on the open market and they were already circulating, so the sale changes hands rather than adding supply and this row stays zero.
No bankruptcy estate, no trustee distribution and no escrowed block of LTC exists anywhere in the coin's history, so there is nothing in this slot that could unwind into the market.
Litecoin captures no protocol revenue and holds no treasury contract, so nothing exists to fund a buyback and no contract on the chain could execute one.
Checked from both sides this window, not just one. Litecoin has no burn address and no fee sink, and every block pays the 6.25 LTC subsidy plus the fees on top to the miner — read at both ends of the window and at four points in between, the fees are added, never destroyed. Every supply meter also rose across the window and none fell. Coins sent to keyless addresses would be gone forever but would still be counted in the published supply, so they could not land here either.
The Litecoin Foundation runs on donations, grants and merchandise and has never announced or executed an open-market accumulation programme. No public evidence of release in window — monitored.
There is no staking, no lockup contract and no vault on Litecoin — coins are either mined or simply held. Moving coins into the optional privacy extension is a transfer between address types, not a lock, so it removes nothing from supply and nothing lands here.
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