Litecoin Roadmap
Disclaimer:
Litecoin is a decentralized open-source project. This Litecoin Roadmap is not official, because there is no official Litecoin Roadmap. These timelines are to be loosely held, and generally are a list of potential ideas and goals for the Litecoin community to discuss. These are curated by two individuals in the Litecoin Community. This road map does not represent the Litecoin Foundation.
2022
Taproot upgrade - Complete
Plasma is a litecoin lighthing wallet that will allow for anyone to make non-custodial lightning payments over the litecoin lightning network
LTC Labs - Created
The world's leading research laboratory, is a digital currency fund managed by a distributed autonomous organization. Focusing on the research and information of anonymous transactions, digital currency, wallet and other technologies, Litecoin is committed to building a prosperous ecosystem.
MWEB upgrade
MWEB will provide Litecoin users the option of sending “confidential” Litecoin transactions, in which the amount being sent is only known between the sender and receiver, as well as the benefit of having private address balances.
LiteVerse Litecoin NFT Marketplace
LiteVerse is the world's first Litecoin NFT marketplace supporting NFTs on Omnilite, a layer-2 solution.
PayPal Adds Litecoin Send, Receive in and out of Wallet
PayPal is the #1 online payments platform and announced that Litecoin will be one of the four cryptocurrencies that can now be transferred in and out of PayPal.
MWEB light client support
A light client is a Litecoin application, such as a wallet, that interacts with the Litecoin network but does not store the blockchain. Instead, this application simply queries other nodes for the specific transactions and blocks in which it is interested.
Litewallet MWEB support
Litewallet is working to add MWEB support
Cake MWEB support
Cake Wallet is working to add MWEB support
Plasma Lightning Wallet Release
Plasma is a litecoin lighthing wallet that will allow for anyone to make non-custodial lightning payments over the litecoin lightning network
2023
Litecoin Halving
A Litecoin halving is an event where the number of generated Litecoin rewards per block is halved.
Occurring roughly every four years, Litecoin halvings aim to preserve Litecoin’s purchasing power. The last Litecoin halving took place on August 5 2019, when the mining reward reduced from 25 Litecoins per block to 12.5 Litecoins per block.
The next halving is expected to take place on around August 6 2023, when the reward will decrease from 12.5 to 6.25 Litecoins.
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
Goals:
USD Stable Coin on Omnilite
First Spot Litecoin ETF approval
2024
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2025
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2026
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2027
Litecoin Halving
A Litecoin halving is an event where the number of generated Litecoin rewards per block is halved.
Occurring roughly every four years, Litecoin halvings aim to preserve Litecoin’s purchasing power. The last Litecoin halving took place on ~August 5 2023, when the mining reward reduced from 12.5 Litecoins per block to 6.25 Litecoins per block.
The next halving is expected to take place on around August 6 2027, when the reward will decrease from 6.5 to 3.125 Litecoins.
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2028
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2029
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2030
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2031
Litecoin Halving
A Litecoin halving is an event where the number of generated Litecoin rewards per block is halved.
Occurring roughly every four years, Litecoin halvings aim to preserve Litecoin’s purchasing power. The last Litecoin halving took place on ~August 5 2027, when the mining reward reduced from 6.25 Litecoins per block to 3.125 Litecoins per block.
The next halving is expected to take place on around August 6 2031, when the reward will decrease from 3.125 to 1.5625 Litecoins.
Litecoin turns 20 years old!
The Litecoin Network turns 20 years old this year. It's been an exciting double-decade of bringing better money to the people.
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2032
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2033
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2034
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
2035
Litecoin Summit
An annual in-person Summit for the Litecoin community. A place to connect and meet with other Litecoin supporters.
Litecoin Halving
A Litecoin halving is an event where the number of generated Litecoin rewards per block is halved.
Occurring roughly every four years, Litecoin halvings aim to preserve Litecoin’s purchasing power. The last Litecoin halving took place on ~August 5 2031, when the mining reward reduced from 3.125 Litecoins per block to 1.5625 Litecoins per block.
The next halving is expected to take place on around August 6 2035, when the reward will decrease from 1.5625 to .78125 Litecoins.