Indexed LitecoinBlockchain Data

Litecoin’s ledger starts at a genesis block dated 7 October 2011, released with the open-source client as a fork of Bitcoin’s code with three deliberate changes. Mining uses Scrypt instead of SHA-256, a memory-hard function that kept Litecoin on different hardware for most of its life. Blocks target two and a half minutes rather than ten, with difficulty retargeted every 2,016 blocks, so that window comes around about every three and a half days. Supply is capped at 84 million LTC and the block subsidy halves every 840,000 blocks. The ledger is UTXO: there are no accounts, and an address holds nothing but the outputs its keys can spend. Two later changes matter to anyone reading the data. SegWit activated in 2017, months ahead of Bitcoin’s, and brought bech32 addresses alongside the original L-prefixed form; script-hash addresses later moved to an M prefix so they could not be mistaken for Bitcoin’s. MimbleWimble Extension Blocks activated in May 2022 as an opt-in side ledger where amounts and parties are hidden, entered and left by pegging coins across from the transparent chain. Litecoin’s mining work has also secured Dogecoin through merged mining since 2014.

SonarX indexes blocks and headers, transactions, inputs and outputs, the scripts that lock them, the output set derived from all of it, and address-level positions computed from that set. The same normalized model covers every network SonarX indexes, so Litecoin sits in the same tables as the other UTXO chains and can be queried with one dialect rather than several.

Full historical coverage is available today as a data-share or a file delivery. Real-time delivery is enabled on request. Kafka streaming can be enabled for Litecoin on request.

The protocol publishes outputs and spends, never balances, so positions are computed by walking the chain, maintaining the output set and attributing every spend back to the output it consumes. Two problems sit on top of that here. MimbleWimble blocks are confidential, so the transparent chain records a peg-in and later a peg-out and nothing between them; the indexed history marks where a balance trail stops rather than inventing a path through it. And the block target of two and a half minutes means a calendar year of Litecoin holds four times the blocks a ten-minute chain does, which changes the size and the shape of a backfill without changing the model behind it.

Litecoin turns up in payment and custody work more often than in research. Transaction monitoring across a payment estate is the common one, where a processor needs every deposit and withdrawal in one place, matched to internal records rather than sampled. Custody reconciliation is the second: holdings restated as at a date, across three address formats and the change outputs a UTXO wallet generates, which is a join rather than a balance read. Third is fee and confirmation analysis, using the faster block target to study how quickly value actually settles and how often a payment sits waiting for more confirmations than its size warrants. Wallet analytics covers the address-level side of this across chains, and Dogecoin is usually pulled alongside because the two share their mining work.

Tell us the delivery target, how far back you need and how fresh it has to be, and the share is scoped against that. Litecoin history is available now, and streaming is provisioned on request. The published coverage matrix for every network SonarX indexes lives in the data documentation, and the rest of the catalogue is at all indexed chains.