LiteForge testnet passed 200 million transactions, roughly 15 weeks after launch
LitVM presented its zero-knowledge Layer-2 roadmap at the Litecoin Summit in Amsterdam, the first held in Europe
Lite Strategy (NASDAQ: LITS) led a $1M strategic investment in LitVM's developer, taking governance rights and a token warrant for up to 2% of supply at launch
LiteForge testnet went live, opening LitVM to smart contract deployment for the first time
LiteForge has settled hundreds of millions of transactions across millions of addresses since its April 2026 genesis, sustaining 4M+ per day. Throughput is well established and readable on-chain at any time.
Mainnet is reported to be gated on independent security audits. Auditors and reports have not been published yet, and LitVM's roadmap describes its phases without naming them. We'll link the reports here as they become available.
Two bridges ship together: the BitcoinOS Grail bridge for trustless LTC, and the Arbitrum Bridge for ETH and ERC-20 assets. LitVM describes Grail as non-custodial with 1/n security — a single honest participant is enough to keep it sound, rather than a multisig majority.
The rollout is published as three phases: Ethereum settlement with dual bridges, then Litecoin proof anchoring — batches inscribed to Litecoin with no protocol changes required — and finally migration to native Litecoin settlement. Useful context for anyone expecting Litecoin settlement on day one: that arrives at phase three.
The three rollout phases are documented in detail, with dates still to be announced. Any timing circulating elsewhere is an estimate rather than a published date. This page watches for a mainnet chain ID, RPC and explorer, and will report one the hour it appears.
How to read this section. Rather than compress everything into a single readiness percentage, each line shows what can be checked on-chain today and what is still awaiting public detail. Every label links to the source it rests on, and lines are updated as more is published — so this stays a live picture of what is known, not an estimate of what comes next.
A multi-chain decentralised exchange offering spot swaps and perpetuals, originally built on Polygon.
Why it mattersNamed launch partner. Without a DEX there is no on-chain liquidity — this is the piece that makes zkLTC tradeable and gives every other protocol a price to quote against.
A zero-knowledge computation layer for Bitcoin-family chains, executing logic off-chain and anchoring the results to the L1.
Why it mattersSupplies the trustless bridge carrying native LTC onto the rollup as zkLTC. This is the hard part of the whole design — a custodial bridge would undercut the reason for building on Litecoin at all.
A rollup-as-a-service platform that provisions and operates application-specific chains.
Why it mattersRuns LiteForge itself — both the testnet RPC and the Blockscout explorer are Caldera-hosted. Every live number on this site is read from infrastructure they operate.
A decentralised sequencing network providing fast confirmations shared across many rollups.
Why it mattersRemoves the single-sequencer trust assumption most rollups ship with, and buys cross-chain composability instead of isolation — LitVM can settle alongside other chains rather than beside them.
Builder of SP1, a zkVM that generates validity proofs for arbitrary programs.
Why it mattersAdds validity proofs on top of Nitro's optimistic base. That is what shortens finality and lets the bridge be trust-minimised rather than dependent on a fraud-proof challenge window.
The Nitro stack — the most heavily used optimistic rollup technology in production.
Why it mattersForms the backbone of LitVM's Ethereum-side operations. Choosing proven infrastructure over something bespoke is what gives LitVM full EVM equivalence from day one.
Blockchain data infrastructure — subgraphs and streaming pipelines into warehouses like Postgres and BigQuery.
Why it mattersRaw RPC access is unusable to build an application against. Goldsky is how most dApps will actually read LitVM state, and it already lists the chain as supported.
An oracle platform that sources and verifies price feeds transparently, publishing its methodology rather than a black-box number.
Why it mattersDeFi cannot function without prices. Lending markets, perps and stablecoins on LitVM are all blocked until a feed exists, which makes this quietly load-bearing.
A Web3 venture studio that previously incubated Polygon and QuickSwap.
Why it mattersThe team actually building LitVM. It explains both why QuickSwap is a launch partner and why the rollup follows a recognisably Polygon-shaped playbook.
The non-profit that supports Litecoin's development, adoption and public presence.
Why it mattersLitVM is presented as Foundation-endorsed. That endorsement is the difference between a sanctioned execution layer and an unaffiliated L2 borrowing Litecoin's name.
The most widely used smart-account platform in Web3 — multi-signature control requiring M-of-N approvals rather than a single private key.
Why it mattersDeployed and maintained on LitVM by Protofire, an official Safe Guardian. Treasuries and protocol governance need multisig before serious money moves on-chain, so this unblocks teams that cannot ship on a single key.
LitVM runs a dedicated builders portal — the official starting point for teams deploying to the network.
LiteForge runs the Shanghai EVM, so existing Solidity, Foundry and Hardhat workflows carry over. A few Arbitrum Orbit behaviours differ from Ethereum mainnet though, and they are the kind that pass tests and fail in production:
block.number returns an approximate Ethereum L1 block, not the LitVM blockblockhash() is not cryptographically secure — use an oracle for randomnessblock.difficulty and block.prevrandao both return the constant 1The docs cover each in full, including address aliasing for cross-chain messages.
builders.litvm.com →Daily transactions
31 days to 7 Aug — 104.2M transactions, ramping 2.4× over the period.