Countdown to the fourth Litecoin halving in 2027 and how it affects a Scrypt miner's income with DOGE.
Current block
3,212,942
Blocks remaining
147,058
Estimated date
July 28, 2027
Block reward
6.25 → 3.125 LTC
Average block time
2 min 30 s, averaged over ~171 days (98,221 blocks)
≈ 77.83 million LTC of 84 million (92.7%)
By the emission schedule at the current block.Scrypt ASIC income right now: DOGE 83.4%, LTC 16.6%. If the LTC reward were already 3.125 LTC, at today's prices and difficulty income would be 8.3% lower.
From pool node data and prices · updated 11:31 UTCThe fourth Litecoin halving will happen at block 3,360,000. The block reward will drop from 6.25 to 3.125 LTC. At the current network pace that is expected around the end of July 2027; the countdown at the top of the page shows the estimated day.
Litecoin finds a block about every 2.5 minutes, 576 blocks a day. Its halving comes every 840,000 blocks, four times rarer than Bitcoin in blocks but about the same in time: roughly four years. The Litecoin halving usually lands 8–10 months before Bitcoin's. Litecoin difficulty is recalculated every 2,016 blocks, about 3.5 days, so LTC block pace stays very close to the 2.5-minute target. The countdown uses the average of the last 48 epochs, about 5.5 months: on the network's history that average missed the pace of the following eight months by less than half a percent.
Dates of past halvings are the UTC time of the block. Future dates are estimates.
| Event | Date | Block | Block reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Network launch | October 2011 | 0 | 50 LTC |
| 1st halving | 2015-08-25 | 840,000 | 50 → 25 LTC |
| 2nd halving | 2019-08-05 | 1,680,000 | 25 → 12.5 LTC |
| 3rd halving | 2023-08-02 | 2,520,000 | 12.5 → 6.25 LTC |
| 4th halving | expected July 2027 | 3,360,000 | 6.25 → 3.125 LTC |
| 5th halving | expected 2031 | 4,200,000 | 3.125 → 1.5625 LTC |
A Scrypt ASIC almost always mines Litecoin together with Dogecoin through merged mining: the same work counts on both networks, and the miner gets both rewards. The halving affects LTC only. The Dogecoin reward is fixed and does not change.
So the income drop depends on how much of it comes from DOGE. The calculation above, when node data is available, uses today's rewards, difficulties and prices of both networks. It is arithmetic on current data, not a forecast: prices and difficulty will be different by July 2027.
Litecoin's supply cap is 84 million coins, four times Bitcoin's, because it also has four times as many blocks. The amount already issued by the emission schedule as of the current block is shown above.
Recheck your Scrypt ASIC payback in the profitability calculator with a 3.125 LTC reward: the calculator includes the DOGE contribution. On RuPool, LTC and DOGE are mined through one LTC stratum and DOGE is credited separately. Payouts are FPPS: after the halving the LTC accrual rate updates by itself.
At block 3,360,000, expected around the end of July 2027. The countdown at the top of the page shows the live estimate.
3.125 LTC instead of 6.25 LTC. Transaction fees are added on top, as before.
On August 2, 2023 (UTC), at block 2,520,000. The reward dropped from 12.5 to 6.25 LTC.
The Dogecoin reward will not change: DOGE has no halving. A Scrypt ASIC's total income drops only by the part that comes from LTC. The calculation at the top of the page shows today's share when node data is available.
Litecoin launched about 2 years and 9 months after Bitcoin, and 840,000 blocks of 2.5 minutes take the same four years as Bitcoin's 210,000 blocks of 10 minutes. So each LTC halving comes 8–10 months before the next BTC halving: 2015 and 2016, 2019 and 2020, 2023 and 2024, 2027 and 2028.
About 84 million. Each halving cuts issuance for the next four years in half.