LTCC vs LTCN: which tracked its coin?
Over the window both share, LTCC finished 3.1 percentage points behind Litecoin and LTCN 4.3 ahead. Canary Litecoin ETF and Grayscale Litecoin Trust (LTC).
LTCC since launch: fund −33.20%, Litecoin −30.46%, 3.94% behind Litecoin, compounded.
LTCN over 1 year: fund −40.10%, Litecoin −37.11%, 4.76% behind Litecoin, compounded.
LTCC among the 25 spot crypto ETPs listed less than a year
LTCN among the 23 spot crypto ETPs with a full year
A percentile among the 25 spot crypto ETPs listed less than a year. LTCN is a percentile among the 23 spot crypto ETPs with a full year, a different set, so the two marks are not on one scale. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All crypto ETFs ranked by it → How it is computed →
The same coin, two trusts
LTCC and LTCN hold the same asset. Both are 1933 Act trusts holding Litecoin through a custodian, so neither has a portfolio to compare: the whole of each fund is one line. Over the days each has traded, LTCC finished 3.9% behind Litecoin once both returns are compounded and LTCN 4.8% behind once both returns are compounded, but the two windows are not the same days, so neither figure is set against the other here. That gap is the fee, the custody, the creation and redemption friction and the market’s pricing of the shares, compounded into one figure. LTCN has 1,897 more days of record than LTCC, and a longer record is a longer window over which a cost can show itself.
Performance, window by window
| Total return | The coin over the same days | Difference, percentage points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | LTCC | LTCN | LTCC | LTCN | LTCC | LTCN |
| 1 month | +35.3% | +45.4% | +38.5% | +38.5% | −3.2 pts | +5.0% of its growth |
| 3 months | +55.8% | +68.1% | +57.5% | +57.5% | −1.7 pts | +6.7% of its growth |
| 6 months | +21.8% | +29.2% | +24.9% | +24.9% | −3.1 pts | +4.3 pts |
| 1 year | not published | −40.1% | not published | −37.1% | not published | −4.8% of its growth |
| Since each listed LTCC Oct 2025 · LTCN Aug 2020 | −33.2% | −77.1% | −30.5% | +2.7% | −3.9% of its growth | −77.7% of its growth |
LTCC and LTCN over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →
On the same fields
LTCC and LTCN on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
LTCC in plain words
LTCC holds Litecoin through a custodian and trades on an exchange, so a holder gets the coin’s return inside a brokerage account rather than a wallet. Over the time since it listed to Sep 30, 2026, Litecoin moved −30.5% and LTCC returned −33.2%. That leaves it 3.9% behind once both returns are compounded. Over a window this long the two returns cannot simply be subtracted. Doing it would read −2.7 pts, which is correct and describes nothing a holder can act on: what the figure above states is the gap between the two growth factors, so a fund that kept 96% of what holding the coin gave says exactly that. That difference is the fee, the custody cost, the friction of creating and redeeming shares in blocks, and whatever the market paid for the shares rather than for the coin, all of it together. It is the only figure on this page the sponsor does not publish itself. A spot trust is not a registered investment company. It files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT, and its holding is one line: the Litecoin it custodies.
LTCN in plain words
LTCN holds Litecoin through a custodian and trades on an exchange, so a holder gets the coin’s return inside a brokerage account rather than a wallet. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026, Litecoin moved −37.1% and LTCN returned −40.1%. That leaves it 4.8% behind once both returns are compounded. Doing it would read −3.0 pts, which is correct and describes nothing a holder can act on: what the figure above states is the gap between the two growth factors, so a fund that kept 95% of what holding the coin gave says exactly that. LTCN charges 2.50% a year and finished 4.8% behind Litecoin, so the fee is less than the whole difference and the rest is what the market paid for the shares, which moved against holders.
Questions people ask
- Which tracked Litecoin more closely, LTCC or LTCN?
- Over the days each has traded, LTCC finished 3.9% behind Litecoin once both returns are compounded and LTCN 4.8% behind once both returns are compounded. Those are not set against each other here, because the two windows are not the same days, so neither is nearer its coin than the other on this page. Each difference carries the fee, the custody cost, the friction of creating and redeeming shares in blocks and whatever the market paid for the shares rather than for the coin.
- Do LTCC or LTCN pay a staking yield?
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