Litecoin

Litecoin was created in 2011 with the intention of being the next best cryptocurrency and blockchain after Bitcoin. Its aim was to improve Bitcoin’s model and neutralize its defects.

Networks Mainnet, Testnet
Released 2011
Consensus Proof of Work (PoW)
Smart contracts No
Block time 2.5 minutes
Smart contract language(s) supported No
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The Litecoin API — build without running a node

Access Litecoin blockchain data through one unified REST API: transaction and address data, balances, block data, and real-time webhooks for on-chain events — with no Litecoin node to run and maintain. Start free and scale as you grow.

Blockchain data

Read Litecoin transactions, addresses, balances, UTXOs, and block data through one REST API.

Real-time webhooks

Subscribe to on-chain events — incoming and outgoing transactions, confirmations, and mined blocks.

No node to run

Skip the infrastructure — managed, always-synced access with no node to operate or maintain.

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Litecoin vs. Bitcoin

Litecoin includes considerable improvements over Bitcoin’s model. It produces significantly more coins, has faster transaction and processing speed, and uses a newer and better cryptographic algorithm - Scrypt. Litecoin also generates a new block 4 times faster.