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LTC — Litecoin

Digital money modeled on Bitcoin, intended for smaller and faster payments.

What it is for

Set out to
Payments as a faster variant of Bitcoin.
Today in addition
MWEB, an optional confidential transaction layer.
Notable
Scrypt mining, carried out jointly with Dogecoin.
Strength
in continuous operation since 2011, widely listed.
Weakness
removed by several Korean exchanges after MWEB.

Contract address

Litecoin — its own chain, no contract.

The asset is the currency of its own chain and does not sit as a token on someone else’s. An empty field here would stand for a missing figure — but nothing is missing.

Score 65of 100
Market capitalization $3.81Bas stored
against Bitcoin, 90 days —not against the dollar
CoinMarketCap #2numeric identifier

This asset is not in the sector barometer.

Where the price stands today between its two endpoints — logarithmic, because orders of magnitude lie in between.
$3.50Lowest daily close · December 5, 2016$388.30Highest daily close · May 9, 2021Price as stored: $49.07

The four cycles

Measured on daily closing prices, never on daily highs or lows. The cycle boundaries are Bitcoin’s own highest and lowest daily closes: January 14, 2015, December 16, 2017, December 15, 2018, November 8, 2021, November 21, 2022, October 6, 2025 and the current low on June 30, 2026. A day counts only if at least ten thousand dollars were traded on it. The price against Bitcoin is given in satoshi — one satoshi is one hundred-millionth of a bitcoin.

CycleLowest daily closeHighest daily closeRise low → highFall high → low
2015 to 2017January 14, 2015 to December 16, 2017$3.50465,426 satDecember 5, 2016$352.081,985,773 satDecember 12, 2017in dollars +$348.58 (+9,959%)against Bitcoin +326.7%from $3.50 on December 5, 2016 to $352.08 on December 12, 2017in dollars -$68.28 (-19.4%)against Bitcoin -14.7%from $352.08 on December 12, 2017 to $283.80 on December 14, 2017

Only partly measured: reliable trading only from August 23, 2016. What lay before that in the window is not recorded; the figures above are the endpoints of the measured part, not those of the whole cycle.

Year by year
2016: in dollars +8.9% (from $3.95 to $4.30) · against Bitcoin -29.3%
2017: in dollars +6,827% (from $4.43 to $306.87) · against Bitcoin +250.0%
2018 to 2021December 15, 2018 to November 8, 2021$23.39734,841 satDecember 15, 2018$388.30665,894 satMay 9, 2021in dollars +$364.91 (+1,560%)against Bitcoin -9.4%from $23.39 on December 15, 2018 to $388.30 on May 9, 2021in dollars -$281.00 (-72.4%)against Bitcoin -45.9%from $388.30 on May 9, 2021 to $107.30 on July 20, 2021
Year by year
2018: in dollars +27.3% (from $23.39 to $29.78) · against Bitcoin +9.8%
2019: in dollars +29.7% (from $31.68 to $41.10) · against Bitcoin -30.7%
2020: in dollars +199.9% (from $41.49 to $124.41) · against Bitcoin -25.8%
2021: in dollars +81.1% (from $126.53 to $229.11) · against Bitcoin -21.2%
2022 to 2025November 21, 2022 to October 6, 2025$55.99101,527 satAugust 7, 2024$137.10131,691 satJanuary 17, 2025in dollars +$81.11 (+144.9%)against Bitcoin +29.7%from $55.99 on August 7, 2024 to $137.10 on January 17, 2025in dollars -$68.01 (-49.6%)against Bitcoin -31.2%from $137.10 on January 17, 2025 to $69.09 on April 8, 2025
Year by year
2022: in dollars +14.5% (from $61.24 to $70.09) · against Bitcoin +9.1%
2023: in dollars +2.7% (from $70.89 to $72.81) · against Bitcoin -59.7%
2024: in dollars +37.9% (from $74.75 to $103.07) · against Bitcoin -34.7%
2025: in dollars +12.7% (from $105.02 to $118.39) · against Bitcoin -14.7%
since 2026, ongoingJune 30, 2026 to September 17, 2026$41.8871,560 satJune 30, 2026$55.2269,814 satSeptember 7, 2026in dollars +$13.34 (+31.8%)against Bitcoin -2.4%from $41.88 on June 30, 2026 to $55.22 on September 7, 2026in dollars -$3.98 (-7.2%)against Bitcoin -2.9%from $55.22 on September 7, 2026 to $51.24 on September 15, 2026
Year by year
2026: in dollars +28.7% (from $41.88 to $53.88) · against Bitcoin -1.4%

If the high of a window comes before the low, the rise is calculated from the low to the next interim high within the same window.

The four questions that are always answered

Net supply and issuance pressure16 of 20 Starting valuation and size leverage3 of 14 Survivability12 of 12 Relative strength against Bitcoin4 of 6

the score is calculated from all twelve criteria. What the twelve questions measure and what has been corrected about the measurement is on the method page.

The remaining criteria are not recorded individually for this asset; the total comes from the assessment of September 5, 2026.

The figures in detail

Price, as stored$49.07 against Bitcoin, 7 days— against Bitcoin, 30 days— listed on CoinMarketCap sinceApril 2013 Age since listingnot researched Fees relative to valuationnot determined Supply still lockednot researched hard supply capnot researched Carried by Nexocarried Trading venues of 15 checked14 of 15

The fifteen largest centralized exchanges by the CoinMarketCap ranking were counted, as of September 5, 2026. Decentralized exchanges do not count. Bybit is not included in any figure, because the venue was not reachable through sixteen address forms. Which five venues are the best for each asset has not been collected yet.

Finding

The highest score of the first Nexo run, but the rank hangs on criterion 7: Litecoin reaches 2,099 active addresses per million dollars of valuation, while the anchor value of the scale was 102.8 — the scale saturates immediately and no longer separates anything in this size class. Without the density component Litecoin falls from 65 to 61. In practice only one consensus-relevant implementation: on April 25, 2026 a consensus gap in the MWEB kernel sum was exploited, and the network reorganized across thirteen blocks; the bug had been unpublished for around thirty-seven days.

Investors and partners: not researched — awards no points, because projects with large backers did not perform better.

Nexo: Carried by Nexo — purchase page documented on September 1, 2026.

No investment advice, no price forecast, no buy or sell recommendation. A high score does not mean “will rise”. It means the asset scores better on these questions than the others.