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Litecoin

Bitcoin's older sibling project, tuned for faster and cheaper payments.

Updated 2026-08-305 min readReference
The short answer

Bitcoin's older sibling project, tuned for faster and cheaper payments. Litecoin has run since 2011 with almost no drama. Blocks come four times faster than Bitcoin and fees stay tiny.

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What Litecoin is for

Litecoin has run since 2011 with almost no drama. Blocks come four times faster than Bitcoin and fees stay tiny.

Technical summary

PropertyValue
LayerLayer 1
Launched2011
ConsensusProof of work with Scrypt
ThroughputAbout 56
FinalityAbout 15 minutes
Native tokenLTC pays fees and rewards miners

Block explorers

An explorer lets you verify any transaction, address or contract on this network yourself. Learning to read one is the fastest way to stop taking anyone's word for anything.

How to read a block explorer

Wallets that support it

What to be aware of

  • Validator concentration varies widely between layer 1s and is worth checking rather than assuming.
  • Newer chains have shorter track records under real adversarial pressure.
  • Crypto assets are volatile. Drawdowns of seventy percent or more have happened on every network in this list, including the largest.
  • Sending to an address on the wrong network can lose funds permanently. Always send a small test amount first.

Nothing on this page is investment advice. We describe how networks work, not whether you should buy anything.

Where to go next

New to Litecoin?

We can get you set up with the right wallet, funded, and through a first transaction on this network in about an hour, on a screen share.