No single dated event in the next 90 days.
Miners get new LTC every block. Almost nothing leaves.
LTC runs Litecoin: 77.71M coins circulate, all of them unlocked, under a hard cap of 84M. New coins come only from mining.
Sell pressure. Miners earned 322,794 LTC in 90 days, 6.25 per block. Litecoin had no premine, so nothing vests, and the next halving is not until July 2027.
Buy pressure. Nothing buys back or burns fees. Users destroyed just 5.6 LTC in data-only outputs.
Net. Net, supply grows about 0.42% in 90 days, and the same next.
Every new block pays its miner 6.25 new LTC. In these 90 days miners found 51,647 blocks, one every 150.6 seconds on average, which made 322,794 new LTC — about 3,587 a day. The next halving to 3.125 LTC comes at block 3,360,000, around late July 2027, so the next 90 days run at the same pay.
Litecoin launched in October 2011 with no premine and no team or investor share. Every coin that exists was mined, so there is nothing to vest, and circulating supply equals total supply.
No team wallet was ever funded by the protocol. The Litecoin Foundation is a non-profit that lives on donations and publishes no LTC balance. One pot is frozen: 85,034 LTC re-locked inside the private MWEB pool after the March 2026 bug fix, which cannot be spent. The largest company holder, a listed treasury firm, reported 819,070 LTC on Jul 17 2026 and sells some to fund its own share buybacks — but it bought those coins in the market, so a sale only moves coins between holders.
No bankruptcy estate, trustee or long lock is releasing LTC. The coins held by US funds and the Grayscale trust were bought in the market, so they were already in the float.
Nothing buys LTC back. All fees go to miners, and the treasury company's buyback is of its own shares, not of LTC.
Litecoin destroys no part of its fees; miners keep them, about 0.01 LTC a block. The old public burn address holds 0.18 LTC and has received nothing since April 2026.
Nothing this window shows the Foundation, or anyone tied to the project, buying LTC for a treasury.
Litecoin has no staking. Its private MWEB pool grew from about 356.4K to 465.5K LTC in these 90 days, but coins there can move back at any time and still count as circulating, so the pool takes nothing out of the float.
Users sometimes attach LTC to data-only outputs that can never be spent. In this window 376 of them destroyed 5.59 LTC, and supply rose by exactly that much less than miners were paid. The forward figure keeps the same small rate.
Two sides: how much people want LTC right now, and how much buying could come later.
This part is based on social media. It shows how hot LTC is right now. A better rank means more people are talking about it.
Today, people are talking about LTC for one reason:
Litecoin's network went live on Oct 13 2011, so it marked 15 years on Oct 13 2026, and about 77.7 million of its 84 million coins now exist. The anniversary came in a weak week: LTC slid from about $64.6 on Oct 11 2026 to about $59 on Oct 17 2026. People ask if an old, steady coin like Litecoin can still keep up with Bitcoin.
Checked Oct 17 2026
By the law of supply and demand, Litecoin's long-run signal is mixed (Oct 18 2026, score 7/10). New supply: +0.42% in the next 90 days. Demand: strong (4/5). Litecoin's price drivers: 0 ▲ price up, 1 ▼ price down.
Probably not dead. US funds hold about 2.1M LTC, and Litecoin was worth about $4.97B on Oct 12 2026. The weak spot is Lite Strategy, a treasury firm that has sold about 11% of its LTC to pay for buybacks. By supply and demand, Litecoin's long-run signal is mixed today.
Bitcoin Cash, by a small step. About 95.7% of its 21M max is out, against 92.5% of Litecoin's 84M on Oct 12 2026. So both have little new supply left, and demand will likely decide which one does better. Supply and demand still read mixed for Litecoin in the long run.
At $1,000, Litecoin would be worth about $77.7B in total — about 16 times its $4.99B market cap today (Oct 18 2026, about $64.2 a coin). Litecoin's supply also grows +1.51% in the next year, so every extra coin needs buyers too. For Litecoin, the supply-and-demand signal is mixed right now.
Litecoin's signal is mixed for now. Litecoin's signal would turn if new supply jumps (today +0.42% in 90 days), or demand falls from strong, or Lite Strategy keeps pointing down.
Litecoin sits at 7/10 today (Oct 18 2026): supply 3/5, demand 4/5. One more year adds +1.51% to Litecoin's supply. Long-run signal: mixed.
By the law of supply and demand, the better time to enter Litecoin is when its new supply is low, demand is high and its price drivers point up. Litecoin today: +0.42% new supply in 90 days (light), demand strong (4/5), drivers 0 ▲ / 1 ▼.
Right now 2 things drive Litecoin's price (0 ▲, 1 ▼). • Fund LTC held: US funds hold about 2.1M LTC; Grayscale still awaits ETF listing. ▼ Lite Strategy: Treasury firm has sold about 11% of its LTC for buybacks.
Side by side on Oct 18 2026: Litecoin at 7/10 with a mixed signal, Bitcoin at 8.5/10 with a positive signal. By supply and demand, Litecoin is the weaker of the two.
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We look at two things, half each: supply and demand. Fewer new coins mean less selling pressure. A meme coin scores 1.5 at most on supply: its team got its coins for free, so no new supply does not make it safe. We also show each coin's age, with a warning when it is younger than 1 year. Demand looks at how much people want the coin now and how much buying could come later. Price Drivers (Beta) are the 2 or 3 things that can move one coin's price that supply and demand miss; they have no score. LTC supply grows +0.42% in the next 90 days, so it shows in red: more LTC reaches the market than is removed. Zero or falling supply is always green, any growth is red.
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