Litecoin turns 15 today, which makes it older than Coinbase, older than Ethereum and older than Tinder (that last one surprised me). We’ve built an entire company around Litecoin, and what stands out to me most is the people. A lot of what makes a network last lives with everyone who kept showing up for it, year after year, through the busy stretches and the quiet ones. So for the birthday we built Proof of Time, a place for those stories. Happy birthday, Litecoin, and thank you to everyone who’s been part of it. Add your story here: proofoftime.litestrategy.com

2026 is 75% over and you still haven't tried a private payment on Litecoin's MWEB.

Litecoin turns 15 this October.

Money is moving onto open rails. The world sent $900B in remittances last year and paid an average of 6.4 percent to do it. Institutions now expect 5 to 10 percent of global payments to run on onchain rails by 2030. But a payment rail is only worth building on if the network underneath it will still be running in 20 years, and if there is a real economy moving across it. There are more than a 1,000 blockchains and 55M tokens. Fewer than a dozen networks are reliable enough to support the future onchain economy, and the ways to own them at scale are limited. @LiteStrategy is the largest public company holder of one of the oldest and most reliable digital networks, making it uniquely positioned to capitalize on this shift. We just reported our FY 2026 results, the first full year operating as a Litecoin treasury company. This was the year we built the base. We deployed $100M into Litecoin with institutional custody alongside professional management through @GSR_io Strategies, then launched a covered call program ahead of schedule. Those proceeds, together with the strategic utilization of our Litecoin balance, let us monetize our discount to NAV and put more Litecoin behind every share through the buyback. We also led the first institutional investment into @LitecoinVM, the layer bringing smart contract capability to Litecoin. As we move into our first full year of DAT operations, we anticipate that our focus will be on accretive buybacks, expanded yield opportunities, lower operational costs and cash burn, while continuing to evaluate strategic opportunities to expand Litecoin’s utility and growth of the Litecoin ecosystem. Payments. Privacy. Hard money.

Litecoin is now walking the EXACT path Bitcoin and Ethereum took into mainstream portfolios. Grayscale filed to turn its Litecoin Trust into a spot ETF on NYSE Arca, same LTCN ticker, same move they made with GBTC and ETHE, and Bloomberg's @EricBalchunas and @JSeyff have the odds near 100%. The thing i found interesting is how loosely that trust has tracked the Litecoin inside it, anywhere from a 5,893% premium to a 67% discount since 2020, cuz there was never a way to create or redeem shares so the price just kind of drifted. Every time an ETF like this gets closer somebody asks me why they'd own LITS instead, which is honestly a fair question. But the way I see it the two are built for different jobs. The ETF gives you clean spot exposure, which is exactly what a lot of allocators need, while we hold Litecoin and actually do things with it, buying back stock when it trades below the Litecoin behind it etc More doors into Litecoin makes the whole market bigger, so the more of these the better, even if this one's still waiting on the SEC.

Litecoin has outlived almost everything that was launched to replace it. - 8.625M addresses holding a balance - 505,481 LTC pegged into MWEB, a record high - 3,000,000 blocks produced since 2011 - 250M+ @LitecoinVM testnet transactions - Named a digital commodity by the SEC and CFTC.

Every PRIVACY design in crypto had to answer one question, and almost all of them answered it WRONG. Do you really make privacy mandatory or optional? - Monero picked mandatory and has been fighting delistings ever since. No exchange can run compliance on a chain it can't see into. - Litecoin picked opt in, and got called a half measure for years. Yet here we are, with Litecoin being the only major asset that has a functional confidentiality layer while maintaining its listings, with 507,162 $LTC currently pegged in. Sometimes, the seemingly boring answer is indeed the right one.

Worth knowing who's really behind the BancaStato headline: Sygnum. @BancaStato is the storefront, but @sygnumofficial runs the trading and custody behind it, and it already powers this same service for a growing list of other Swiss banks. So this isn't one Swiss bank deciding it likes Litecoin. It's the shared infrastructure underneath a big part of Swiss banking quietly adding LTC. When people ask how $LTC ends up in traditional finance, this is the actual mechanism > A provider builds the rails, the banks plug in, and Litecoin is already on the supported list. Every new bank that connects gets Litecoin by default.