LTCN Grayscale Litecoin Trust (LTC)
A spot Litecoin trust. It holds the coin and trades like a share.
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, LTCN returned −58.0% against Litecoin’s −54.0%, 8.8% behind once both returns are compounded.
Key facts
ETFIQ Coin Capture Score
2.124th of 24
LTCN kept 91.2% of what holding Litecoin gave over the same days.
How much of what holding the coin gave did a holder of the fund keep?
That is the share of the 24 spot crypto ETPs with a full year sitting at or below LTCN. A position in this set, not a rating: it moves when the set moves, and it is not a figure to average against another desk's.
Period by period
| Window | The fund | Litecoin | Difference, percentage points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | +25.5% | +18.8% | +5.6% of its growth |
| 3 months | +23.8% | +23.7% | +0.1 pts |
| 6 months | −6.2% | −3.7% | −2.5 pts |
| 1 year | −58.0% | −54.0% | −8.8% of its growth |
| Since it listed | −82.8% | −18.6% | −78.9% of its growth |
In plain words
Over the year to Sep 11, 2026, Litecoin moved −54.0% and LTCN returned −58.0%. That leaves it 8.8% behind once both returns are compounded. Over a window this long the two returns cannot simply be subtracted. Doing it would read −4.0 pts, which is arithmetically 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 91% 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. LTCN charges 2.50% a year and finished 8.8% 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. 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.
| Sponsor | Grayscale |
|---|---|
| Holds | Litecoin |
| Sponsor’s fee (10-K) | 2.50% |
| Staking | the chain has none, so no fund holding it can pay a staking yield |
| Listed since | Aug 18, 2020 |
| Days traded | 1,524 |
| Days it closed unchanged | 34 |
| Quoted | on an exchange, every trading day |
| Price | $3.95 |
Fund closes and coin closes from Tiingo, read at the same two dates. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask
- Does LTCN track Litecoin?
- Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned −58.0% against Litecoin’s −54.0%, which leaves it 8.8% behind once both returns are compounded. That difference carries the fee, the custody cost and the market’s pricing of the shares, and ETFIQ computes it from the fund’s own closes and the coin’s own closes over the same two dates.
- Does LTCN stake?
- Litecoin is a proof of work chain, so there is nothing to stake and no fund holding it can pay a staking yield.
- What is LTCN?
- Grayscale Litecoin Trust (LTC), a spot Litecoin trust sponsored by Grayscale, listed Aug 18, 2020. It holds the coin through a custodian rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it.
The words on this page
- Tracking difference
- The fund’s total return minus the coin’s over exactly the same days, in percentage points. The fee, the custody cost, the creation and redemption friction and whatever the market paid for the shares, all of it, in one number.
- Spot
- The fund holds the coin itself, through a custodian, rather than futures on it or shares in companies that own it. Only spot funds are on this desk; the others are measured where they belong.
- Sponsor
- Who runs the trust. A spot crypto ETF is a 1933 Act trust rather than a registered investment company, so it has a sponsor rather than an adviser, and files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT.
- Thinly quoted
- A fund whose price sat unchanged on more than one trading day in twenty. Its quoted return is what somebody paid on the days anyone traded, which is not the same thing as what the fund did, so ETFIQ shows it and does not rank it against funds that trade.
- Staking
- Only proof of stake coins can be staked, so it exists for ether and Solana funds and cannot exist for a bitcoin one. Where a fund stakes, the yield and the sponsor’s share of it are terms in its own filings.
Every term used here, defined in full on the crypto ETFs vocabulary page.
Where these figures came from
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