Grayscale Research Head Calls Litecoin an OG Altcoin on 15 Years of Uptime

Litecoin reached15 years of uninterrupted operation on 7 October 2026, counting from its2011 genesis block, according to U.Today. Grayscale's head of research, Zach Pandl, drew attention to an unusual surge in mentions of the coin and publicly described Litecoin as an OG altcoin, a term the outlet renders as an original, classic asset that has kept its fundamental value. U.Today cited on-chain data for the anniversary date showing roughly 156,000 transactions processed per day, an average transaction fee of $0.003, hashrate of 2,671.43 TH/s and 9.10 million active ... — the address count figure is cut off in the source text. The same report says the network has run without an outage or shutdown, and that the MWEB privacy pool has reached a record size above 563,000 LTC. Pandl's remark is the only interpretive claim in the account, and it comes from a single outlet, which also carries a disclaimer that its writers' opinions are their own; nothing in the evidence establishes an institutional commitment from Grayscale.