Litecoin on-chain dashboard

How to read these measurements

Blockchair supplies the current snapshot shared with our mining calculator and halving countdown. Each card shows its source time. Data older than 15 minutes, or a failed refresh, is labelled cached. Missing values stay unavailable.

Hashrate and difficulty

Hashrate is an estimate inferred from work and block production over an interval, not a count of machines. A short-term move can reflect variation in block arrival. Difficulty controls the work required; it does not measure miner profit. Compare prices, power costs and both chain difficulties in the merged-mining calculator.

Addresses and transactions are not users

The address card counts non-empty addresses reported by the provider, not addresses active today. One owner may hold many addresses; an exchange may represent many owners. Transaction counts include self-transfers, consolidations and other activity. These statistics alone do not establish adoption or accumulation.

Average fees and a fee quote answer different questions

The 24-hour average describes confirmed transactions of different sizes. Blockchair reports the base value in litoshi; 100,000,000 litoshi equal 1 LTC. The USD card converts this mean using the price in the same snapshot. For your own payment, estimate virtual size and multiply it by a chosen fee rate in the transaction fee calculator.

Supply and block timing

Circulation is the provider estimate, not a measure of coins available for sale. Lost keys cannot be identified reliably from these totals. Litecoin targets a block every 150 seconds; individual intervals vary. The 24-hour block-time statistic divides 86,400 seconds by the observed number of blocks. A slow interval does not by itself prove a network outage.

Sources: Blockchair field definitions, Litecoin Core subsidy rules. Historical charts use Litecoinspace and show their latest sample separately.