What is the maximum supply of Litecoin?

The maximum supply of Litecoin is 84 million coins.

Litecoin was created by Charlie Lee and launched in October 2011 as a cryptocurrency inspired by Bitcoin. Its supply cap was set at four times Bitcoin’s 21-million limit. Litecoin also uses a shorter target block time of about 2.5 minutes, compared with Bitcoin’s roughly 10 minutes, and began with a 50-LTC block reward.

Litecoin’s issuance schedule reduces the block reward by half every 840,000 blocks. Those halvings slow the rate at which new LTC enters circulation while preserving the long-term limit of 84 million. The cap refers to the protocol’s intended maximum supply, not the number currently held by users or available on exchanges.

A common mix-up is confusing Litecoin’s supply with Bitcoin’s or with a current circulating-supply figure. Litecoin’s 84-million ceiling is a designed monetary-policy parameter, while the circulating total changes as blocks are mined and coins are lost or otherwise inaccessible.