Litecoin · halving

The next Litecoin halving

At block 3,360,000 the block reward is cut in half, and the rate of new LTC entering the world permanently halves with it.

185,339 Blocks to go
6.25 → 3.125 Block reward, LTC
27 July 2027 Estimated — not a date

Assumes the protocol's 2.5-minute block target. We have no trailing pace for this chain, so the real date will drift as hash rate moves.

Progress through this reward era 77.94%
2,520,000 654,661 of 840,000 blocks mined 3,360,000
92.37% of all LTC has been minted

77,591,638 of 84,000,000 LTC, counted as the exact sum of every block subsidy the schedule has paid. That is what has been minted, not what is in circulation — the genesis reward is unspendable and some early blocks claimed less than they were owed.

What changes at block 3,360,000

Block reward 6.25 →3.125 LTC
New supply per day 3,600 →1,800 LTC
Current height 3,174,661

Protocol arithmetic at the 2.5-minute block target — 576 blocks a day.

What it actually does to sell pressure

New supply is arriving at 3,600 LTC a day — $194.98K at today's price. Against $322.47M of daily trading volume, that is 0.060% of the market.

After the halving it becomes $97.49K a day, or 0.030% — so the event removes about 0.030% of daily volume worth of structural selling.

That is a deliberately unexciting number, and it is the honest one. The halving is a supply event of a size the market absorbs in minutes, not a mechanism that moves price on its own. Price and volume are today's readings; the coin figures above are protocol constants.

Every halving so far

  1. 25 August 2015 25 block 840,000
  2. 5 August 2019 12.5 block 1,680,000
  3. 2 August 2023 6.25 block 2,520,000
  4. Next — 27 July 2027 3.125 block 3,360,000

Every date here comes from the block itself, not from a calendar. Bitcoin's block 840,000 was mined at 00:09 UTC on 20 April 2024, which is why the widely repeated "19 April" is a day out. We do not show what the price was at each halving: the exchanges holding that history mostly forbid republishing it, and we would rather leave the gap than borrow a number we have no right to.

What we will not tell you

We publish no forecast of what this does to the price, and we are not being coy — we think nobody can.

There have been four Bitcoin halvings. Four is not a sample. Each one landed in a different world: 2012 had almost no institutional participation, 2016 followed a two-year bear market, 2020 arrived weeks after a global liquidity shock, 2024 came months after spot ETFs changed who was buying. Anyone drawing a causal line through those four points is selling something.

What we can tell you is the arithmetic above: how much new supply exists, what it is worth, and how small it is next to the volume that trades every day. That is a fact you can check. The rest is a story.

Tell me when it is close

One email when Litecoin is 4,032 blocks from halving — about a week out. Nothing else, and never to anyone else.

Height 3,174,661 as of 01:40 UTC, confirmed by litecoinspace.org and blockcypher.