Ethereum
ETH
Litecoin
LTC
Ethereum vs Litecoin
Last 7 days, both indexed to zero
Each line starts at zero seven days ago and shows the percentage move since, so the two are on the same scale regardless of what one coin costs. Seven days is a week, not a trend.
| ETH | LTC | |
|---|---|---|
| Price A higher price per coin is not a bigger asset — it is the same value cut into fewer pieces. | $2,435.24 | $48.73 |
| Market cap Price multiplied by circulating supply. The closest thing to "how big is this". | $293.89B (larger) | $3.78B |
| Rank by market cap | #2 (larger) | #25 |
| Change, 24h | ▼2.77% | ▼0.79% |
| Change, 7 days | ▲0.60% | ▼5.50% |
| 24h volume How much actually changed hands. Thin volume against a large market cap means the price is easier to move than the cap suggests. | $12.04B (larger) | $249.61M |
| Daily turnover Volume as a share of market cap — how much of the asset trades in a day. | 4.10% | 6.61% (larger) |
| Circulating supply | 120,681,172 ETH (larger) | 77,550,692 LTC |
| Supply cap A hard cap and an uncapped supply are different designs, not a better and a worse one — what matters is whether issuance is predictable. | No fixed cap | 84,000,000 max |
| Below all-time high How far each sits under its own record price. It says where the price has been, not where it is going. | ▼50.76% | ▼88.12% |
| All-time high | $4,946.05 Aug 2025 | $410.26 May 2021 |
A highlighted figure is simply the larger of the two. It is marked on size, liquidity and supply — where bigger is a fact — and deliberately not on price or on percentage change, where "bigger" would be us implying a winner.
What each one is
Ethereum
Ethereum is a programmable blockchain launched in 2015 by Vitalik Buterin and a group of co-founders. Where Bitcoin tracks who owns what, Ethereum runs code: smart contracts that execute exactly as written, which is what most stablecoins, lending protocols and NFTs are actually built on.
Litecoin
Litecoin was launched in 2011 by Charlie Lee, a former Google engineer, as one of the earliest Bitcoin forks. It kept Bitcoin's fundamental design and changed a few parameters: blocks every 2.5 minutes rather than 10, a supply cap of 84 million, and the Scrypt mining algorithm instead of SHA-256.
Where each one lives
Ethereum
Native asset. ETH has no token contract — it is the asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Litecoin
Native asset. LTC has no token contract — it is the asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Whichever you hold, holding it yourself is the same problem
Both of these can sit on an exchange, and on an exchange neither of them is yours in the way people assume. If you decide to hold either one properly, this is the category that does it — devices that keep the keys off any internet-connected machine.
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Figures for Ethereum and Litecoin synced 5m ago from CoinGecko and shown in USD. This page is market information and education, not financial advice, and nothing on it is a recommendation to buy or sell ETH or LTC. Both can lose value.