Is Litecoin (LTC) a shitcoin?
$ No. Strong fundamentals, few red flags.
Gold-meter
68/100
merit score
Shit-meter
0/100
red-flag score
Litecoin: Strongest on fair launch & distribution (100); no major red flags.
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Payments · Data confidence medium How much of the methodology had verified data behind this score. It says nothing about the project itself. Is this verdict fair?
Community opinion — never affects scores.
Every score is built from the indicators below. Select any line for the reasoning, raw data and source.
Goldcoin score breakdown Higher is better · total 68 Fair launch & distribution 16% of score 100
Genesis allocation to insiders measured 100 0% Launch method assessed 100 Fair mining / fair launch Top-100 holders' share measured ?
Unknown Supply soundness 14% of score 96
Supply policy assessed 100 Fixed hard cap Current annual inflation measured 92 1.7% Decentralization 16% of score 55
Largest client's share measured 1 99% Nakamoto coefficient measured 23 2 Permissionless participation assessed 100 Anyone can mine or validate Reachable full / validating nodes measured 50 ~1,000 (est.) Consensus mechanism assessed 100 Proof of work Usability as money 10% of score 63
Confirmation speed (L1) assessed 40 2 to 10 min Typical transaction fee (L1) assessed 85 $0.001 to $0.01 Full bear markets survived measured 100 3 Cost to attack measured 67 ~$1B (est.) Halts or rollbacks, last 5 years measured 100 0 Years in production measured 100 15 years Tech & development 12% of score 31
Programmability assessed 0 None (payments only) Monthly active core developers measured 15 1 Open source assessed 100 Fully open Originality assessed 10 Copy fork or template token Annual fees ÷ market cap measured 17 0.0031% Daily active addresses measured ?
Unknown TVL or non-speculative settlement ÷ market cap measured ?
Unknown Security budget 10% of score 66
Fee share of security rewards assessed 15 Under 3% Real reward to securers assessed 50 Roughly break-even Security spend (rewards ÷ market cap per year) assessed 100 1.5% or more of market cap per year Security trend (hashrate or staked share, 1 year) assessed 100 Growing
Shitcoin score breakdown Higher is worse · total 0 Function beyond speculation assessed 0 Money, gas or collateral Token needed to use the product assessed 0 Required Market cap ÷ annual economic throughput measured ?
Unknown Insider control 20% of score 0
Team, investor and foundation holdings measured 0 0% Top-10 wallets' share measured ?
Unknown Who controls upgrades and governance assessed 0 Broad rough consensus Admin powers 15% of score 0
Freeze or blacklist function measured 0 No Mint authority measured 0 None Upgrade path measured 0 Immutable or hard fork only Unlock overhang 15% of score 0
FDV ÷ market cap measured 0 1× Unlocks in next 12 months measured 0 0% Hype dependence 10% of score 0
Celebrity, influencer or politician launch assessed 0 No Social mentions ÷ active addresses measured ?
Unknown Trading turnover measured ?
Unknown Track record 10% of score 0
Core-protocol exploits with user losses, last 5 years measured 0 0 Regulatory enforcement against the issuer measured 0 None Methodology v0.8 · computed 2026-09-29 