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LTCN Grayscale Litecoin Trust (LTC)
A spot Litecoin trust. It holds the coin and trades like a share.Grayscale2.50% feeSince Aug 18, 2020SEC filings ↗Every Grayscale fund ETFIQ covers
Over the year to Sep 30, 2026, LTCN returned −40.1% against Litecoin’s −37.1%, 4.8% behind once both returns are compounded.
−40.1%
Total return, year
−37.1%
Litecoin over the same days
−4.8%
Difference against Litecoin, compounded
1,537
Days it has traded
Where every fund in this set sits
How much of what holding the coin gave did a holder of the fund keep?
95.2% to 106.5% across 23
That is the share of the 23 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.
ETFIQ Coin Capture Score
2.223rd of 23
LTCN kept 95.2% of what holding Litecoin gave over the same days.
share of the coin's growth it kept95.2% · 2nd pct
| Window | The fund | Litecoin | Difference, percentage points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Aug 31 – Sep 30, 2026 | +45.4% | +38.5% | +5.0% of its growth |
| 3M Jul 1 – Sep 30, 2026 | +68.1% | +57.5% | +6.7% of its growth |
| 6M Apr 1 – Sep 30, 2026 | +29.2% | +24.9% | +4.3 pts |
| 1Y Sep 30, 2025 – Sep 30, 2026 | −40.1% | −37.1% | −4.8% of its growth |
| Since it listed Aug 18, 2020 – Sep 30, 2026 | −77.1% | +2.7% | −77.7% of its growth |
LTCN over each window to Sep 30, 2026. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation. Source: ETFIQ.
Head to head
Funds near this one
In plain words
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. Over a window this long the two returns cannot simply be subtracted. 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. 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 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. 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.
SponsorGrayscale
HoldsLitecoin
Sponsor’s fee (10-K)2.50%
Stakingthe chain has none, so no fund holding it can pay a staking yield
Listed sinceAug 18, 2020
Days traded1,537
Days it closed unchanged35
Quotedon an exchange, every trading day
Price$5.2651
LTCN (Grayscale Litecoin Trust (LTC)), crypto ETFs fields as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
Fund closes and coin closes from Tiingo, read at the same two dates. ETFIQ calculation. How these figures are computed
Questions people ask about LTCN
- Does LTCN track Litecoin?
- Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 it returned −40.1% against Litecoin’s −37.1%, which leaves it 4.8% 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.
Sources and dates
Prices, LTCN and LitecoinPrices, Tiingo end of day ↗
All fund filingsFilings on SEC EDGAR ↗
IssuerGrayscale website ↗
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ETFIQ, LTCN, crypto ETFs, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/ltcn
ETFIQ. (Sep 30, 2026). LTCN, crypto ETFs. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/ltcn
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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.
LTCN, Crypto ETFs, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 30, 2026. Every figure is calculated from a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, is not a fund issuer, broker-dealer or investment adviser, and makes no recommendations.