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Send a coin you're already sitting on, get LTC back at an address you control. The rate is on the page before you commit to anything.
Rates come from a live feed and move on their own. What finally lands depends on both network fees and the spread in the quote.
The short version
Buying LTC here is a swap
You're not opening an account and you're not depositing anything for safekeeping. You send one coin out of a wallet you control, and Litecoin comes back to an address you control. Two ordinary on-chain transactions, one after the other, with a rate agreed in the middle.
That's the whole shape of it. The service takes the coin you send and pushes LTC out to the address you typed in. Nobody asks you to park funds somewhere first, and nobody holds your keys at any point.
So if you already hold BTC, ETH, USDT, XMR, TRX or DOGE, you have everything you need to buy LTC today. Pick the one you're least attached to, put an amount in the box above, and read the number that comes back.
What you send
Any of the coins in the box above, sent straight from your own wallet. The deposit address you get belongs to that one swap and nothing else.
What sets the rate
A fixed rate pins the number the moment you confirm and costs more for that certainty. A floating rate keeps counting against the market while your deposit confirms.
What you get
LTC at the address you gave. Read it back character by character before you send anything, because a Litecoin payment can't be pulled back once it's in a block.
Step by step
How to buy Litecoin in five steps
None of this needs an account. Two of the steps are worth slowing down on, and they're marked.
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Open a Litecoin wallet and copy your address
Use software where you hold the recovery phrase yourself. Copy the receiving address out of the wallet's own receive screen. Don't retype one by hand, and don't use an address somebody sent you in a chat.
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Pick the coin you're parting with
The amount box takes whatever you're sending. The line under it shows what one unit of that coin is worth in LTC right now, so you can size the swap before anything leaves your wallet.
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Lock the rate or let it float
Fixed locks the number up front and carries a wider spread. Floating recalculates while your deposit confirms, which works out cheaper on a quiet day and less predictable on a loud one. Pick fixed if the exact payout matters to you.
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Send the deposit from your wallet
You'll be given a one-time deposit address and an amount. Send that amount, from the wallet you control, on the network the page asks for. This is the step to slow down on: a payment sent on the wrong chain is gone.
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Wait for the LTC to arrive
The first leg waits on confirmations from the chain you sent from, then the payout goes out. Litecoin blocks target 2.5 minutes, so the receiving half is usually the quick half.
Before you paste anything
Where to receive it: picking an LTC wallet
Litecoin has four address prefixes and they don't all behave the same way. This is where people lose money, so it's worth two minutes of reading.
Your wallet decides which format it hands you. Most current software gives you a ltc1 address by default, and that's the one to use for anything that touches a swap form.
| Starts with | Format | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| L | Legacy | The original format. Still spendable, still accepted everywhere. Plenty of older wallets still hand these out. |
| M | P2SH | Script addresses. Older software used to print the same thing with a leading 3, which is why one address can look like two. |
| ltc1 | Bech32 | Lowercase and not case-sensitive. The everyday default in current wallets, and the safe pick for a swap. |
| ltcmweb1 | MWEB | The optional confidential layer added in 2022. Most exchanges won't pay out to it and won't take deposits from it. |
MWEB is the one to keep well away from exchange forms. It's a privacy layer, which is exactly why services that need to see where funds came from tend to refuse it in both directions. Keep a plain ltc1 address for swaps, and use MWEB separately and on purpose, once the coins are already sitting in your wallet.
Fine to paste into a swap form
- An ltc1 address copied from your own wallet
- An L or M address from an older wallet you still use
- A fresh receiving address rather than one you've posted somewhere public
- An address you can see on the wallet's receive screen right now
Don't paste these
- An ltcmweb1 address, which most services reject outright
- An address for a different coin that happens to start with a letter you recognise
- Anything that arrived in a message, even from someone you know
- An address you read off a screenshot and typed in again
The coin itself
What Litecoin actually is
Litecoin started in 2011 and still runs on more or less the design it launched with. Blocks target 2.5 minutes. Proof of work uses Scrypt. The supply stops at 84 million coins.
That's most of what matters for a swap. Short blocks mean the receiving leg doesn't keep you waiting. A long and fairly uneventful history means wallet support is everywhere, and you're unlikely to meet software that can't handle LTC.
The other direction
Sell Litecoin the same way round
Same mechanism, reversed. You send LTC out of your wallet and a different coin comes back to an address you control. Nothing about the process changes; only the order of the two legs does.
A stablecoin is the usual pick when people sell Litecoin, because the point of selling is normally to make the number stop moving. Tether is pegged to the dollar, though it's a token from an issuer rather than a dollar itself, and that distinction is worth holding on to.
Hit the Sell tab at the top of this page and the pair flips for you. For the longer version, including what to check before you send and which coin to take on the way out, there's a page for it.
Money and time
What actually comes out of the rate
You won't find a percentage on this page, because the real figure moves and anyone quoting you a fixed one is guessing. Three things decide the gap between what leaves your wallet and what lands in it:
- The network fee on the chain you send from. That one goes to the chain, not to the service, and you pay it directly out of the sending wallet.
- The network fee on the Litecoin side, which comes out of the payout.
- The spread the service builds into the rate it quotes. A fixed rate carries a wider one — that's the price of the certainty.
Timing works the same way. The first leg takes however long the sending chain needs to confirm your deposit, and that varies wildly between chains: a Bitcoin deposit waits on ten-minute blocks, a TRON one on blocks that come every few seconds. Once the payout goes out, Litecoin's 2.5-minute blocks make the second half the fast half almost every time.
One thing worth saying plainly: these transactions are final. Send to the wrong address and there's no support desk that can reverse it, on any chain, for anyone.
Questions
Common questions
The ones that come up most when people ask where to buy Litecoin and what happens after they hit send.
Where to buy Litecoin without opening an account?
Swap services do this without a sign-up. You give a receiving address, send the coin you're parting with, and the LTC goes out to you. There's no balance sitting on a platform afterwards, which is the main reason people pick this route over an exchange account.
How to buy Litecoin with USDT?
Pick USDT in the send box and LTC in the receive box. The one thing to get right is the network: USDT exists on several chains and they don't talk to each other. Send it on a chain the form isn't expecting and the payment won't arrive.
Do I need to verify my identity?
A swap is built so that no account exists in the first place, so there's nothing attached to a name by default. Services still reserve the right to ask questions about individual transactions, and that's worth knowing before you send a large one.
How long does a swap take?
Most of the wait is the first leg, confirming on whichever chain you sent from. The Litecoin payout is quick by comparison because blocks target 2.5 minutes. A deposit from a slow chain during a busy hour is the usual reason something feels stuck.
Fixed or floating rate — which should I pick?
Fixed if you need to know the exact payout in advance and you'll accept a wider spread for it. Floating if you're comfortable letting the number settle while the deposit confirms. On a calm day floating usually comes out ahead.
Can I buy LTC straight to an ltcmweb1 address?
Usually not. MWEB is Litecoin's optional confidential layer from 2022, and most services neither pay out to those addresses nor accept deposits from them. Take the payout on a normal address and move it into MWEB yourself afterwards if you want to.
Which LTC address format should I use?
Whatever your wallet gives you on its receive screen, which on current software means one starting with ltc1. Older L and M addresses still work fine. The only format to avoid for swaps is ltcmweb1.
I sent a different amount than the form asked for. What now?
Check the order page first — many swaps handle a mismatch on their own and simply recalculate the payout. If it doesn't clear by itself, the transaction ID from your sending wallet is the thing support will ask for, so have it ready.
Can I send the deposit from an exchange account?
You can, but it makes things harder to fix. Withdrawals from an account often arrive as a batched payment, they can be delayed by internal checks, and if anything needs sorting out you're dealing with two support queues instead of one. Sending from a wallet you control keeps it simple.
How do I sell LTC again later?
Run the same swap backwards: LTC out of your wallet, something else back. The Sell tab at the top of this page sets the pair up for you, and the dedicated page covers what's worth checking before you send.
Pick a coin and read the rate
The converter at the top is live. Put in a real amount, see what comes back in LTC, and decide from there — nothing is committed until you send the deposit.
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