Litecoin Price Today

What determines the price of Litecoin?

Buyers and sellers determine the Litecoin price through the orders they place on exchanges. The price changes when demand or available supply changes.

On the supply side, Litecoin issues new coins as mining rewards. Scheduled halvings reduce those rewards, so the circulating supply grows more slowly after each halving.

On the demand side, traders may adjust their LTC orders in response to interest rate changes, inflation news, and broader crypto market conditions.

As of Nov 05, 2026, Litecoin is trading at $51.81, -7.58% over the past 24 hours, moving between a low of $51.65 and a high of $56.20 on Binance.US. Over the past 7 days the price has moved -6.78%, over the past 30 days -24.83%, and over the past year -42.09%. Litecoin's market capitalization stands at $4.03B on a circulating supply of 77.80M LTC, with $240.95M traded globally over the past 24 hours. These movements reflect the mechanics described above: demand meeting a supply that grows through mining rewards cut in half roughly every four years, and the broader macroeconomic backdrop. This is a dated read of current conditions, not a forecast; Binance.US does not publish price targets.

How has MWEB affected where Litecoin trades?

Some exchanges stopped trading Litecoin after its MWEB upgrade. MWEB, or Mimblewimble Extension Blocks, went live in May 2022 and gives users an optional way to hide transaction amounts in extension blocks.[1]

MWEB is optional. Transactions on Litecoin's main chain remain transparent unless users choose to move their LTC into an extension block.

The upgrade changed where LTC could be traded. In June 2022, major South Korean exchanges, including Upbit and Bithumb, ended Litecoin trading, citing anti-money-laundering rules concerning confidential transactions.[2]

Exchange listings affect where people can buy and sell LTC. They can also affect how many buyers and sellers place the orders that set LTC's price.

How Binance.US prices Litecoin

Binance.US shows a Litecoin price based on completed trades on its LTC order book. A new trade can change the quoted price. The quote reflects trading on Binance.US rather than an average from other exchanges. Learn more about Binance.US.

Binance.US is operated by BAM Trading Services Inc., a licensed and regulated United States cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables American residents to securely buy, sell, trade, and stake digital assets with fiat on-ramp capabilities, U.S.-based custody, and regulatory compliance. [3]

Litecoin's all-time high

Litecoin reached its all-time high of $412.96 on May 10, 2021 and its all-time low of $1.11 on Jan 14, 2015.

The high and low show the range of prices at which LTC has traded. They describe past prices and cannot tell you where LTC will trade next.

Today's price sits -87.46% from that high.

Litecoin market capitalization and circulating supply

Litecoin's market capitalization equals its price multiplied by its circulating supply. With 77.80M LTC in circulation, its market cap currently stands at $4.03B.

Miners continue to add LTC to circulation. As supply changes, market cap can change even if the price does not.

Litecoin's fully diluted valuation, currently $4.35B, estimates what its market cap would be if every LTC that can ever exist were in circulation at today's price. Miners have already mined most of those coins, so the figure sits close to Litecoin's current market cap.

• Litecoin's market capitalization equals the LTC price multiplied by circulating supply. The figure estimates the market value of all circulating LTC.
• Fully diluted valuation multiplies today's LTC price by Litecoin's maximum supply, including coins miners have not yet mined.
• Circulating supply counts LTC already mined and available to the market. Maximum supply is the limit on how many LTC the protocol can create.
• Litecoin's market dominance is its market cap as a share of the total cryptocurrency market cap.

Litecoin price history and key milestones

Charlie Lee launched Litecoin in October 2011 using Bitcoin's open-source code. He designed it as a "lite" complement to Bitcoin, with a shorter target block time. Litecoin is one of the longest-running cryptocurrencies still traded today.

Litecoin has its own blockchain and uses Scrypt mining. The network targets a block about every two and a half minutes, compared with Bitcoin's ten minutes. Its maximum supply is four times Bitcoin's, and both networks cut mining rewards on a schedule.

How does the Litecoin halving affect its supply?

Litecoin's halving slows the growth of its circulating supply by cutting the mining reward in half. Halvings occur every 840,000 blocks, or roughly every four years.[4] The reward began at 50 LTC per block and fell to 6.25 LTC after halvings in 2015, 2019, and 2023.

The next halving is expected around mid-2027 and will lower the reward to 3.125 LTC per block. Miners will then add less new LTC per block, while the maximum supply stays the same.

Litecoin schedules halvings by block height, not a calendar date, so the exact day can shift. Each halving reduces how much new LTC miners create; it does not remove LTC already in circulation.