the future of Litecoin

[Rengga Jati]

The foundation of Litecoin is so solid and built for many years. That's the reason why it remains to be on top even if it didn't get much hype nowadays.

I think Litecoin became a good option or alternative choice for transaction when Bitcoin network fee surge.

Yes, unfortunately, it's no longer a trend, which is probably why many people are familiar with LTC, so they prefer to invest in other new top coins. LTC, once dubbed "the digital silver," provided faster blocks and had a total supply of around 84 billion.

However, as time went on, with the increasing number of altcoins, its progress seemed to fade. Even though the coin had several bullish periods, it couldn't reach a new ATH. The last one was in 2021 at $412.96. Now, its price is only $55 (omg! I was a bit shocked when I saw the data on CMC, as I hadn't checked the coin in a long time). In fact, it has dropped more than 85%.

[CryptoCrookz]

Frankly at this point such forks' main utility is to showcase security risks to the mothership. Any attack on them could one day be repeated on Bitcoin itself - perhaps if the hash rate does not survive the next halving due to reduced rewards?

Successful 51% attack on Litecoin - Price remains stable.

https://u.today/litecoin-shares-update-on-zero-day-exploit-what-happened

Relative strength or the market had already priced it as a zombie chain?

Wow. Never thought the day Litecoin was going to get "hacked". I mean, Litecoin is a tried-and-tested blockchain network. It's much more reliable than those newer altcoins trading on the market today. I guess Litecoin's problem was the lack of community support. Without a considerable amount of miners and nodes backing it, the network will ultimately become vulnerable against external attacks. It's a good thing developers rolled out a patch, though. It could've been worse.

Perhaps, the best way forward is to turn Litecoin into a Bitcoin sidechain. Only then, it will be able to gain the security benefits of BTC. The community will ultimately decide the future of the project. We'll see what happens...

What would happen with LTC (the coin) if Litecoin becomes Bitcoin's sidechain?
I mean it would technically be a good decision especially considering how widely adopted it is as a payment settling layer. But what about investors aka coin holders?

[bitgolden]

unfortunately, it's no longer a trend, which is probably why many people are familiar with LTC, so they prefer to invest in other new top coins. LTC, once dubbed "the digital silver," provided faster blocks and had a total supply of around 84 billion.

However, as time went on, with the increasing number of altcoins, its progress seemed to fade. Even though the coin had several bullish periods, it couldn't reach a new ATH. The last one was in 2021 at $412.96. Now, its price is only $55 (omg! I was a bit shocked when I saw the data on CMC, as I hadn't checked the coin in a long time). In fact, it has dropped more than 85%.

It also never innovated enough to matter either. We are talking about a coin that is "basically" same as it started.

Sure it has made improvements on TPS, and security, so we know that it's secure and safe to use it, without any worry of hacking or anything like that, and we know that it would be cheap to use it as well, even though not the cheapest which is a shame considering how little it's used. They needed to innovate and use the newest tech to see if it can grow, and they did not.

[Akbarkoe]

Hello forum. What do you think about this coin? Will the rate at least return to 70? Or has everyone forgotten about LTC?

Looking at the price it has today $55 dollars without looking at the chart to return to $70 it is very possible because it is a very reasonable price figure that can be obtained, but it will not happen in the near future considering the market still remains in the bearish period of the cycle.
To get that price we definitely need a bull market where liquidity is very large and capital rotation will definitely go into lite coins just like the previous cycle can even reach $100 more back after a long fast.

[Accardo]

Looking at the price it has today $55 dollars without looking at the chart to return to $70 it is very possible because it is a very reasonable price figure that can be obtained, but it will not happen in the near future considering the market still remains in the bearish period of the cycle.
To get that price we definitely need a bull market where liquidity is very large and capital rotation will definitely go into lite coins just like the previous cycle can even reach $100 more back after a long fast.

Litecoin is very solid, and has great potentials provided bitcoin's bullish run keeps on affecting fees and maybe the ordinal spam continues to delay transactions. Factors that affect bitcoin's fees and transaction speed, helps Litecoin go bullish. For now, such things are on the minimal, those times when a single transaction could cost about $40 in fees, most people ran back to litecoin, and gave it a big price increase. Other than that, I don't think of any other criteria that helps litecoin go bullish.

[d5000]

What would happen with LTC (the coin) if Litecoin becomes Bitcoin's sidechain?
I mean it would technically be a good decision especially considering how widely adopted it is as a payment settling layer. But what about investors aka coin holders?

It depends on the sidechain model.

Probably the best model is to keep the LTC token for the mining incentive. For LTC holders nothing would change in this case, they can keep their LTC. If the incentive becomes too low, it could be merged mined with Bitcoin to improve security. On the other hand, LTC is already merged mined with Doge, so there are already some synergies, and the "semi-successful" (I say "semi" because most exchanges require 20 confirmations, and the reorg was only 13 blocks long) attack in April was based on a DDoS attack, not on a "takeover" with bought hashrate.

A "Bitcoin token" (lBTC?) could then become a secondary token on the LTC chain, effectively transforming LTC in a Bitcoin sidechain. I've already proposed that model elsewhere and it could be indeed a way to make Litecoin more relevant again. For the peg I would propose a similar model than Threshold tBTC. I am currently however quite sure that LTC would need additional scripting features for that to work.

[batang_bitcoin]

Litecoin is very solid, and has great potentials provided bitcoin's bullish run keeps on affecting fees and maybe the ordinal spam continues to delay transactions. Factors that affect bitcoin's fees and transaction speed, helps Litecoin go bullish.

I'd rather see a litecoin that's cheap than to see that the transactions done in the Bitcoin network are slowed down and spammed by the ordinals. We'll never like to see that ever happen again because of how it made the network being spammed caused with so much in transaction fees. If Litecoin has benefited on that or it will benefit from that, that's likely minimal. Litecoin is on its own and it still has got a huge use case in it because of how cheap the transactions happening in there. But to say this, it's not that good just to see Litecoin becomes bullish.

[Abiky]

Looking at the price it has today $55 dollars without looking at the chart to return to $70 it is very possible because it is a very reasonable price figure that can be obtained, but it will not happen in the near future considering the market still remains in the bearish period of the cycle.
To get that price we definitely need a bull market where liquidity is very large and capital rotation will definitely go into lite coins just like the previous cycle can even reach $100 more back after a long fast.

$70 is nothing compared to what Litecoin has to offer. What, you may ask? Litecoin offers blazing-fast transactions, cheap fees, privacy (Mimblewimble) and a limited supply. Not to mention, a tried-and-tested Blockchain network. It's undervalued, imo.

Compare Litecoin to other altcoins, and you will notice that it has nearly every crypto exchange supporting it. There are lots of trading pairs for LTC alone. So, even though Litecoin isn't as innovative or exciting as other coins, it still has strong adoption worldwide. If Litecoin becomes popular someday, it would surely cross the $100 mark. The sky is the limit to how high it can go. I would include LTC in my portfolio besides Bitcoin for true peace of mind.

[Conqueror777]

Hello forum. What do you think about this coin? Will the rate at least return to 70? Or has everyone forgotten about LTC?

Litecoin is a good coin to invest but nothing extraordinary. If BTC goes back to 80-90k we are going to see litecoin rise again and it will be profitable if you hold it long enough.

[asriloni]

Successful 51% attack on Litecoin - Price remains stable.

https://u.today/litecoin-shares-update-on-zero-day-exploit-what-happened

Relative strength or the market had already priced it as a zombie chain?

It's obvious market is already priced it as a zombie chain. The 51% doesn't even matter for this blockchain because litecoin has been performing like dogshite for several years. It's still alive because of people who still used it for the transactional purpose only. It still has so many active address. So i think that's the reason why it's still survive despite 51% attack.

I also think it's also due to how Litecoin believers still try to push their holding agenda until the big pump will come again in the cycle. However, it can be a death kneel for them if their expectation will never come true.

[M47AK16]

It's obvious market is already priced it as a zombie chain. The 51% doesn't even matter for this blockchain because litecoin has been performing like dogshite for several years. It's still alive because of people who still used it for the transactional purpose only. It still has so many active address. So i think that's the reason why it's still survive despite 51% attack.

I also think it's also due to how Litecoin believers still try to push their holding agenda until the big pump will come again in the cycle. However, it can be a death kneel for them if their expectation will never come true.

One of the reasons why it is not going up. Because while these type of "bad" news do not really end up causing the price to go down, it is also the reason why it doesn't go up as well which is the reason why we should not be considering litecoin going up on the long run. We need to realize that it is not going to be easy and we are going to see these things change for the long term.

Litecoin is not going to get better unless there is some work done on it, and nobody is doing any work on it unfortunately. Charlie used to care about it a lot and he tried his best and even back those days it was doing alright but he wasn't enough, the worst part is now they do not even have him so they have basically nobody working on it or promoting it.

[d5000]

has been performing like dogshite for several years

The long term (4 year) trend is still solid, see chart below. It reached an ATH of $105 in 2025. Of course now it dipped but that was not the first time. Most altcoins dipped hard too in this "bear market light" of 2025/2026 (there are some exceptions like Tron and Monero, but they are also far away from their ATHs. And BSC/BNB isn't really a cryptocurrency.).



Actually LTC is interesting in the sense that its longer MAs are quite stable since the early 2020s. The spot price in contrast swinged extremely in 2017/18 and 2021 but then has returned to a stable slight uptrend near the baseline (~$40-80) with sporadic spikes in bull markets over $100.

This could indeed be the effect of its usage as a "transactional coin", people use it like a prepaid card to circunvent high Bitcoin fees if they want to pay things with crypto. Not a bad idea I think - if LTC continues with this slight uptrend, people doing that do not lose anything. The transaction count is also stable at between 150,000 and 200,000 per day, about half of the transactions recorded on Bitcoin.

I don't know if anything should change and LTC folks should really try to create some hype. Perhaps it is fine just like it is.

Litecoin is not going to get better unless there is some work done on it, and nobody is doing any work on it unfortunately.

That "nobody works on it" is also not true. The Github repo is active. What you probably mean is typical shitcoin hype marketing to coordinate a pump.