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Guides, news and analysis about Litecoin and the crypto market.
Released May 7, 2026. 47 files changed, 3,200 lines added. Mandatory MWEB upgrade, improved peer banning, additional validation. The code diff analysis and what remains unpatched.
One month until the biggest Litecoin event of 2026. Charlie Lee keynote confirmed. Live LitVM smart contract demo scheduled. Full speaker lineup and what traders should watch for.
Hashrate climbs to 3.5 PH/s while LTC trades at $56. Miner confidence at record levels. New Antminer L11 deployment, merged mining economics, and what the divergence signals.
Canary Capital slashes LTCC expense ratio from 0.85% to 0.39% ahead of Grayscale competition. Fee war dynamics, what it means for AUM, and why this matters more than price.
One month after the MWEB reorg, Litecoin Core ships a hardening release. New validation checks, improved peer banning, and mandatory MWEB upgrade. What node operators need to know.
Two critical bugs patched: MWEB inflation vulnerability and mining node DoS. Step-by-step update guide for Windows, Linux, Mac. Only 52% of nodes upgraded so far.
Two new LTC ETF filings join the existing LTCC. Analysts give 90% approval odds. A fee war could slash costs from 0.85% to 0.25%. What competition means for LTC demand.
14 years of zero incidents — over. A zero-day MWEB bug caused a 13-block reorganization on April 25, 2026. NEAR Intents lost $600K. An inflation bug created 85,034 fake LTC. The full breakdown.
June 22-23, Amsterdam. LitVM mainnet date expected. Charlie Lee keynote. MWEB payment demo. The most important LTC event since the ETF.
LitVM testnet launched Q1 2026. Solidity contracts deploy. EVM tools work. But no TVL, no bridge, no mainnet date. Hands-on review.
25 million inscriptions. 5x transaction spike. Fees hit $0.50. Then activity dropped 95%. The full story of Litecoin Ordinals — what happened, why it died, and what it taught us about the network.
Section 122 tariffs triggered a 15% LTC crash in 24 hours. $12M in leveraged longs liquidated. Fear & Greed Index at 8 for 46 straight days. What the cascade looked like from inside — and why tariff expiry on July 24 matters.
3.7 million LTC in public company treasuries and funds — up 37% since August 2025. Whales bought 1.02 million LTC on February 8 alone. The smart money is positioning. Here is who, how much, and why.
Bank-issued stablecoins. Tax-exempt transactions under $200. FDIC-supervised reserves. The GENIUS Act creates Litecoin's fiercest competitor yet — and forces LTC to evolve beyond the payment narrative.
On March 15, 2026, 1.25M LTC (~$68M) left exchange hot wallets in a single day. Price spiked 3% and reversed. Here is what the on-chain data actually shows — and why whale alerts are usually noise.
ChangeNOW deployed dynamic confirmation thresholds on March 17, 2026. LTC deposits now require 2 blocks (~5 min) instead of 5 (~12.5 min). Fastest among major swap platforms.
Tristero integrated Litecoin MWEB on March 17, 2026. Privacy transactions without manual peg-in steps. MWEB balance hits 301,000 LTC with 400,000+ total peg-ins.
A single wallet lost over 2 million LTC to a phishing attack in February 2026. The network was not hacked — the vulnerability was human. Here is how the attack worked and how to prevent it.
The CLARITY Act passed the House 294-134 and cleared the Senate Agriculture Committee. If signed into law, Litecoin's commodity classification becomes permanent — no future SEC can reverse it.
300 million transactions, 4,800+ days of 100% uptime, $6.56 trillion moved. Litecoin hit the milestone on January 4, 2025 — but growing usage has not translated to price appreciation. Here is why.
MEI Pharma pivoted from cancer drugs to crypto, buying 929,548 LTC for $100 million and rebranding to Lite Strategy (LITS). Five months later, the position is down 50%. Here is what happened.
The sixth Litecoin Summit heads to Amsterdam on June 22-23, kicking off Dutch Blockchain Week. With LitVM, the SEC commodity ruling, and halving narrative converging, this is not a typical community gathering.
On March 18, 2026, the SEC classified Litecoin among 16 digital commodities. Here is what that means for exchanges, custodians, ETF issuers, and holders — and why the CLARITY Act could make it permanent law.
The Litecoin network has processed over 250 million transactions since launch, reinforcing its position as one of the most actively used blockchains.