Litecoin

2011-10-07

Charlie Lee releases Litecoin as an open-source Bitcoin fork on GitHub, introducing Scrypt PoW, 2.5-minute blocks, and an 84 million LTC cap.

2013-01-01

Litecoin reaches a $1 billion market capitalization, two years after launch.

2017-05-01

Litecoin activates Segregated Witness (SegWit) and performs the first Lightning Network transaction across two continents.

2017-12-20

Founder Charlie Lee publicly discloses he has sold and donated his entire LTC holdings at or near market peak, citing a conflict of interest stemming from his price-moving social media influence.

2018-06-01

Multiple impersonator Twitter accounts using handles like @SatoshiLitez appear, running fake LTC giveaway scams. Charlie Lee publicly warns followers.

2019-12-23

A fake Litecoin Foundation YouTube channel running a fraudulent 100,000 LTC giveaway is exposed. The scam defrauded users of approximately 309 LTC (~$12,505).

2022-05-19

Litecoin activates the MimbleWimble Extension Blocks (MWEB) soft fork, adding optional confidential transactions to the network.

2022-06-08

South Korea's five largest crypto exchanges — Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Gopax — simultaneously delist LTC, citing MWEB's incompatibility with domestic AML regulations.

2025-02-25

The SEC formally notices a proposed rule change to list and trade shares of the CoinShares Litecoin ETF on Nasdaq, published in the Federal Register.

2026-01-10

ZachXBT discloses that a single victim lost approximately 1,459 BTC and 2.05 million LTC (totaling ~$282 million) in a social engineering attack on a hardware wallet — the largest individual crypto theft of 2026. The attacker laundered funds primarily via Monero through instant exchanges.

2026-03-17

The SEC and CFTC jointly publish a 68-page interpretive release formally classifying Litecoin as a digital commodity, not a security, placing it under CFTC oversight.