Originally published at https://mrnasdog.com/research/ltc/inflation
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LTC Inflation Analysis · October 2026 · Mixed flows · supply roughly steady
Litecoin (LTC) is mildly inflationary and the reason is simple: miners are paid in new coins and nothing takes them back. Between Jul 24 and Oct 22 2026 the Litecoin network created 323,206 LTC of block rewards, while users destroyed only 5.59 LTC by sending it to unspendable outputs. Net, LTC supply grew +0.42% in 90 days, and the next 90 days look the same. Other market trackers show +0.46%. Every LTC that will ever exist is capped at 84M, and the next halving, around late July 2027, cuts the reward in half.
The verdict, in one paragraph
Litecoin added +0.42% to its circulating supply over the last 90 days, and our projection for the next 90 days is also +0.42%. Other market trackers put the same 90-day change at +0.46%, a gap of just 0.04 percentage points, so the two readings agree and no warning chip is shown. Almost the whole move is one mechanism: the fixed proof-of-work block reward of 6.25 LTC. There is no vesting, no team reserve, no staking and no fee burn on Litecoin. The cite-able label: a fixed-schedule proof-of-work coin with steady, predictable miner issuance until the 2027 halving.
Sell pressure: where new LTC comes from
Protocol inflation is the only live source of new LTC. Every Litecoin block pays its miner a subsidy of 6.25 new LTC, a figure set in 2023 when block 2,520,000 cut it from 12.5. In the 90 days to Oct 22 2026 the Litecoin network produced 51,713 blocks, one roughly every 150 seconds, and so created 323,206 LTC, about 3,590 LTC a day. Because the Litecoin reward is paid per block and blocks arrived almost exactly on schedule, the next 90 days should bring about the same 323,206 LTC.
Vesting unlocks are zero and always have been. Litecoin was launched by Charlie Lee in October 2011 with no presale, no investor round and no team allocation, so there is no unlock calendar and no cliff to wait for. Every LTC in existence came from mining.
Foundation and unscheduled unlocks are zero. The Litecoin Foundation is a non-profit that runs on donations and never received a coin allocation, so it has no reserve that could be released onto the market. The largest known corporate holder, a listed Litecoin treasury company, reported 832,716 LTC on Jun 30 2026 and has sold some LTC to fund buybacks of its own shares, but those coins were bought on the open market and already count as circulating.
Long-term locked or bankruptcy supply is zero. No court estate, exchange bankruptcy or legal settlement is waiting to release a pile of LTC, and coins held by funds or exchanges are already in the circulating count.
Buy pressure: where new LTC goes
Litecoin has almost no buy pressure built into its design. There is no programmatic buyback: no contract or treasury buys LTC back for the network. There is no protocol fee burn either. Unlike Ethereum, Litecoin does not destroy transaction fees; they go to the miner who found the block, about 7 LTC a day across the whole network.
Foundation buying is zero. The spot Litecoin fund in the United States and the treasury company buy LTC that already circulates, which moves coins between holders but does not take any out of the count. New long-term locks are also zero: Litecoin has no staking. About 461.76K LTC now sits inside MWEB, the optional privacy layer, but those coins can move back at any time and still count as circulating.
The one real removal is small. Some users attach LTC to data-only outputs that can never be spent. In this window 376 such outputs destroyed 5.59 LTC, all of it in August 2026. Against 323,206 LTC of new mining, that is a rounding error.
Foundation and overhang
Litecoin has very little team-controlled supply to watch. The Litecoin Foundation publishes no LTC wallet or balance and holds no protocol allocation; we check its announcements every rebuild. The second item is 85,034 LTC recovered after the March 2026 MWEB exploit: the coins were returned and then frozen inside the privacy layer by a Litecoin Core update, and they stay frozen. The third is the listed treasury company with 832,716 LTC at its Jun 30 2026 year end, which we track through its filings but do not book, because its coins came from the market. If any of these balances falls between refreshes, the outflow enters the foundation and unscheduled unlocks line at the next refresh.
How LTC compares to other proof-of-work chains
Litecoin copies the Bitcoin model: a hard cap, a fixed reward and a halving every four years or so. The difference is speed. Bitcoin pays 3.125 BTC every 10 minutes toward a 21M cap, while Litecoin pays 6.25 LTC every 2.5 minutes toward an 84M cap. Today that gives Litecoin an issuance of roughly 1.7% a year, about twice Bitcoin’s rate, because Litecoin’s last halving came in August 2023 and Bitcoin’s came in April 2024. After Litecoin’s next halving in 2027 the two rates move closer again.
Dogecoin is the coin most tied to Litecoin, since the two are merge-mined with the same hardware. Dogecoin has no cap and pays a fixed 10,000 DOGE every minute forever, so its yearly issuance never halves. Monero also has a permanent tail reward. Against those designs, Litecoin is a capped, shrinking-issuance coin: each halving lowers new supply, and once the 84M cap is close, miners will live on fees alone.
Litecoin also lacks the supply levers that many newer chains have. There is no EIP-1559 style fee burn like Ethereum, no exchange buyback like BNB, and no unlock calendar like most venture-funded tokens. That makes LTC supply easy to forecast: it rises by the block reward and very little else.
What to watch in the next 90 days
Nov 10 2026: Binance closes its mining pool. It found only about 0.4% of Litecoin blocks in the past month, so block times and LTC issuance should barely change, and a new pool that shares part of its fees with the Litecoin Foundation opened in public beta on Oct 20 2026.
The Grayscale Litecoin Trust is still waiting to become a listed ETF after its amended filing on Sep 11 2026. An approval could bring new buyers, but they buy coins already in circulation, so it does not change supply.
Litecoin Core security releases. The MWEB privacy layer needed several patches in 2026, the latest on Sep 12 2026. A new bug that created coins, like the March 2026 exploit, would be the one way LTC supply could jump outside the schedule.
The treasury company’s next quarterly report, which will show whether it kept selling LTC to buy back its own shares. The halving itself, around Jul 28 2027, is outside this window.
Summary
Litecoin supply grew +0.42% over the 90 days to Oct 22 2026, almost entirely from the 6.25 LTC block reward paid to miners, and is projected to grow about the same over the next 90 days. Litecoin has no vesting, no team reserve, no buyback and no fee burn; only 5.59 LTC left circulation through unspendable outputs. The main supply risk is a software bug like the March 2026 MWEB exploit, not a scheduled unlock. Supply is capped at 84M LTC, and the next halving, around late July 2027, cuts new issuance in half.
MrNasDog Pressure Framework analysis of LTC, Metric 1 — Inflation. Data + explanation only. Not financial advice. Checked Oct 22 2026.
Original: https://mrnasdog.com/research/ltc/inflation · Data + explanation only. Not financial advice.