{"id":29309,"date":"2025-05-29T17:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29309"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:47:03","slug":"litecoin-enters-smart-contract-era-with-new-layer-2-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29309","title":{"rendered":"Litecoin Enters Smart Contract Era With New Layer-2 Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Lunar Digital Assets<\/strong> has launched <strong>LitVM<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>the first zero-knowledge Layer-2 for <strong>Litecoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ltc\/usd\">LTC<\/a>), signaling a shift toward on-chain programmability and real-world asset integration for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/litecoin-price-prediction#:~:text=With%20recent%20market%20movement%2C%20we,within%203%20years%20or%20less.\">decade-old cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The Layer-2 was announced at the Litecoin Summit and is built using BitcoinOS and Polygon CDK, with endorsement from the <strong>Litecoin Foundation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Litecoin, long known as a lightweight peer-to-peer alternative to <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), may be entering a new development phase. <\/p>\n<p>Lunar Digital Assets announced the launch of LitVM, a trustless, EVM-compatible Layer-2 network at the Litecoin Summit in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The zero-knowledge rollup is designed to bring smart contract functionality and cross-chain liquidity to Litecoin for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Built with BitcoinOS and <strong>Polygon<\/strong>&#8216;s<strong> <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/matic\/usd\">MATIC<\/a>) Chain Development Kit &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45677493\/litecoin-enters-smart-contract-era-with-new-layer-2-chain\" alt=\"Litecoin\" enters smart contract era with new layer-2 chain>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunar Digital Assets has launched LitVM, the first zero-knowledge Layer-2 for Litecoin (CRYPTO: LTC), signaling a shift toward on-chain programmability and real-world asset integration for the decade-old cryptocurrency. What Happened: The Layer-2 was announced at the Litecoin Summit and is built using BitcoinOS and Polygon CDK, with endorsement from the Litecoin Foundation. Litecoin, long known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}