Litecoin Cash ranks #478 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5563: 5085 of the 5562 assets ahead of it are not native coins but tokens or claims. A token is issued on a host blockchain rather than running its own; a claim stands for an asset already counted.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #478 |
| Rank counting claims | #5563 |
| Price | $0.00161 |
| Circulating supply | 0 LCC |
| Maximum supply | 840,000,000 LCC |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | SHA-256 + MinotaurX (+ Hive) |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Premine |
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Grade pending. What Litecoin Cash pays its miners is not yet measured. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 10 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 8 | group average, 11 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | 8.2 | 4.9 of 6 points source |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 9 | fixed maximum supply of 840 million: supply scale 7.9, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | ✓ | 15 full years since genesis, no halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | ✓ | no authority can freeze, blacklist or set apart a coin |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 7 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $1.6e-10 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $0.0000013; about 51 transactions a second (3.6 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | ✓ | node software open source; pruned nodes validate everything |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Litecoin Cash's Bitcoin-derived node (litecoincash-project/litecoincash) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| UTXO ledger: a new key for each payment, no account linking every coin | ✓ | |
| Network-level privacy: the node hides where a transaction came from (Dandelion++, Tor or I2P, on by default) | ✗ | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): no Dandelion relay in the node; Tor is only an optional proxy setting (-tor/-onion) the user must configure. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): Bitcoin-style transparent outputs; no confidential amounts. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): Bitcoin-style transparent addresses; no ring signatures, zero-knowledge spends or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.1 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.0000013 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 3.6 | about 51.4 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 7 | a block every 1.4 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 9.8 | 4 MB limit, 27.9 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 5 | 1 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | ✗ | Proof-of-work and Hive blocks (2.5-minute target, ~80 s observed) with probabilistic confirmation on a Litecoin 0.16 base with opt-in replace-by-fee; no instant locks. |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): -prune deletes old block files and keeps the UTXO set and recent blocks (incompatible with -txindex). |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | – | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): serves BIP37 merkleblock proofs, but Hive (bee) blocks carry no header proof-of-work, so whether a header-only client can check the chain is not established. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | 6 | 4 of 6 points, 3 not yet measured source |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | – | |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | – | |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | ✓ | 14.7% |
| Largest three under 75% | ✓ | 33.6% |
| More than one maintained client | ✗ | 0 |
| Node software is open source | ✓ | Litecoin Cash Core is maintained by the small litecoincash-project volunteer team; no company or foundation; MIT licence. |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | ✗ | about 238 a day |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | ✓ | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 3.3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions; no contract platform. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): CHECKMULTISIG plus OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY enforced by the block-validation script flags (src/validation.cpp). |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): hash-locked, CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY-refund HTLC scripts are expressible, as in Bitcoin. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): no order book or market maker in the ledger rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): no cross-chain message or light-client verification in the protocol. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 (Apr 2024): no token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Decentralisation | 10 | section average, 6 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol party can freeze, blacklist or claw back coins or halt the chain. source |
| No central team (Source) | 10 | No central team: Litecoin Cash Core is maintained by the small litecoincash-project volunteer team; no company or foundation; MIT licence. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 10 | Proof of work: 10 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 9.9 | 0.67% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. Forked from Litecoin at block 1,371,111 (February 2018); GetBlockSubsidy issues a 'premine' of 5,500,000 LCC (premineAmount 550,000 x 10 coin scale) on the first post-fork block to CashierDaZEsyBQkuvv4c2uPZFx6m2XTgT; 5.5M / 824.48M current supply = 0.67%. The ~546M LCC credited 10:1 to Litecoin holders at the fork is inherited chain history, not counted. source |
| Fundraising | 10 | No sale of the coin source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. Block rewards go to SHA-256 and MinotaurX miners and to Hive bee owners; the Hive's community fund (CashCFfv8CmdWo6wyMGQWtmQnaToyhgsWr) receives only optional donations of 10% of bee-creation cost, not a share of issuance. source |
| Supply & Demand | 4 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0 | average of 1 measure |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no exchange the site reads trades it |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | – | no volume reported |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | – | not measured |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | – | not measured |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | – | not measured |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 7.9 | fixed maximum supply of 840 million |
| Record | 6.7 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 10 | 3 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| No halt, freeze or reversal in five years | ✓ | |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 15 full years since genesis. Split from Litecoin in February 2018 after block 1,371,111, keeping Litecoin's ledger: its history runs from Litecoin's genesis block of 7 October 2011. |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 0 positive, 7 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/litecoincash-project/litecoincash); Last release Litecoin Cash v0.16.4 on 2024-04-06, more than 24 months ago (previous v0.16.3, 2021-12-01). |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52914: crafted orphan transactions can stall the node for hours in the uninterruptible orphan-resolution loop; still in Litecoin Cash v0.16.4. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can exhaust CPU and memory; still in Litecoin Cash v0.16.4. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-31, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52919: addr-message spam can overflow the address manager's 32-bit id counter and crash the node, with no addr rate limit; still in Litecoin Cash v0.16.4. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-09-18, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2019-25220: a long low-difficulty header chain can exhaust memory because the node has no headers pre-synchronisation; still in Litecoin Cash v0.16.4. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-10-08, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-35202: a crafted blocktxn message trips the assert in compact-block reconstruction and crashes the node; still in Litecoin Cash v0.16.4. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2026-05-05, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52911: a crafted invalid block can make script-check threads read freed precomputed transaction data and crash the node; still in Litecoin Cash v0.16.4. |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have six sections: sound money qualities (six checks: scarcity, durability, fungibility, divisibility, portability, verifiability), privacy (five checks), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) and decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share). Provisional: criteria marked — are not yet measured and are left out of the average. A rating of structure and market depth, not a price forecast or investment advice. How the grade is built · Highest-graded cryptocurrencies.
0 of a maximum 840,000,000 LCC are in circulation — 0.0% of the total that will ever exist.
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 0.67% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
| Fundraising | No sale and no investor round |
Forked from Litecoin at block 1,371,111 (February 2018); GetBlockSubsidy issues a 'premine' of 5,500,000 LCC (premineAmount 550,000 x 10 coin scale) on the first post-fork block to CashierDaZEsyBQkuvv4c2uPZFx6m2XTgT; 5.5M / 824.48M current supply = 0.67%. The ~546M LCC credited 10:1 to Litecoin holders at the fork is inherited chain history, not counted.
No ICO or presale; the team took a 5.5M LCC premine at the fork.
Use of the 5.5M premine is not documented in the sources read.
Block rewards go to SHA-256 and MinotaurX miners and to Hive bee owners; the Hive's community fund (CashCFfv8CmdWo6wyMGQWtmQnaToyhgsWr) receives only optional donations of 10% of bee-creation cost, not a share of issuance.
clients is 0 because the reference client's last release (v0.16.4, April 2024) is older than 24 months. Input circulating supply of 0 is wrong: chainz reports 824.48M at height 4,554,870. Concentration is by coinbase address, which understates pool concentration if a pool rotates addresses.
Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · chainz.cryptoid.info. Researched 2026-10-26, medium confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for Litecoin Cash.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
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Litecoin Cash is #478 among cryptocurrencies and #5563 in the market ranking, which lists wrapped coins, staked derivatives, stablecoins and tokens alongside them. CoinSpectrum counts an asset once, and counts only cryptocurrencies: assets with their own blockchain and their own consensus. A wrapped coin, a staked derivative or a stablecoin is a claim on something already counted; a token, memecoin or otherwise, runs on another chain's blocks. All of them are listed, each in its own section, and none is added to the total. The 5085 places between Litecoin Cash's two ranks are held by claims and tokens, not by other networks. The methodology sets out the rule and the counting rule argues for it.
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