Litecoin (LTC) Price Today

Rank #26

$55.66▲+0.80%

Price$55.66

Market Cap$4.30B

24h Change0.80%

24h Volume$357.67M

ATH$410.26

High 24h$55.84

Low 24h$54.90

Updated05/05, 20:26

Market Overview

Rank

#26

Dominance

0.16%

FDV

$4,295,998,932.00

ATH Date

2021-05-10

ATL

$1.15

ATL Date

2015-01-14

Change 7d

1.26%

Change 30d

5.25%

Token Supply

Circulating

77,135,320.733

Total Supply

77,135,739.483

Max Supply

84,000,000

Technical Information

Use Case

Payments, Store of value

Consensus

Proof of Work (Scrypt)

Founder

Charlie Lee

Launch Year

2011

Block Time

2.5 minutes

TPS

56 tx/s

Resources

Website

About litecoin

Litecoin is Bitcoin's little brother - faster blocks, lower fees, same battle-tested security. Charlie Lee created it in 2011 as the "silver to Bitcoin's gold." It's not sexy, but it works. Merchants love it for payments, and it's survived every crypto winter since 2011.

Recent news about litecoin

Litecoin Rewrites Three Hours After Privacy-Layer Exploit Forces Emergency Patch

By Loic Dos Santos | April 26, 2026

Attackers Target Litecoin’s Privacy Layer Late Friday into Saturday, the Litecoin blockchain faced its first major exploit of the Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) privacy feature, with attackers leveraging a vulnerability to disrupt...