Miners process transactions and receive fees from users (supply-side fees).

Litecoin is a distributed ledger for transfer and store of value (a blockchain). Litecoin was founded by Charlie Lee and launched in 2010.

LTC holders own and govern the protocol. They currently do not take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Litecoin’s investors include Block Ventures, etc.

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# Litecoin Maximum token supply Methodology

## 1. Overview

This metric tracks Litecoin's maximum token supply, which represents the theoretical maximum number of LTC tokens that can ever exist according to the Litecoin protocol. This is a protocol-defined constant that provides a key reference point for understanding Litecoin's tokenomics and scarcity model. The metric answers the business question: "What is the hard cap on Litecoin's total supply?"

The calculation is straightforward as it uses the hardcoded maximum supply value defined in Litecoin's protocol specifications rather than deriving it from blockchain data.

## 2. Data sources

This metric relies entirely on protocol specifications rather than blockchain data:
- **Litecoin protocol constants**: The maximum supply cap of 84 million LTC as defined in Litecoin's consensus rules
- **Protocol launch information**: Litecoin's official launch date of October 13, 2011

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Protocol constants definition
- **Purpose**: Define the fixed maximum token supply based on Litecoin protocol specifications
- **Logic**: Set the maximum supply to exactly 84,000,000 LTC, which is the hard cap built into Litecoin's protocol. This value is derived from Litecoin being designed to have 4x the supply of Bitcoin (21 million × 4 = 84 million). The timestamp is set to Litecoin's launch date of October 13, 2011, and the time grain is set to daily aggregation.
- **Key fields**: `timestamp` set to launch date, `timestamp_grain` set to 'day', `token_supply_maximum` set to 84,000,000

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: No combination needed as this is a single constant value
- **Currency conversion**: No conversion required as this is a token count, not a monetary value
- **Time aggregation**: The metric uses a fill-forward strategy, meaning the same maximum supply value (84,000,000 LTC) is reported for all dates from the launch date onwards
- **Final calculation**: The final metric value is simply the protocol-defined constant of 84,000,000 LTC, standardized through the finalization macro to ensure consistent formatting and metadata across Token Terminal's metrics framework

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

Maximum number of tokens that can exist under the current token economics.

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