# Unofficial Litecoin Roadmap

Source: https://gofranz.com/blog/unofficial-litecoin-roadmap-2017/

~~I've come to realize that there's no public roadmap of what's to come over the next couple of months, so I've put together what I've found around the internet as well as on the last, [official roadmap from 2016 (pdf)](/assets/content/2017/litecoin-roadmap-2016.pdf).~~

**Edit**: The official Litecoin roadmap has been published on [litecoincore.org](https://litecoincore.org/).

## Litecoin roadmap 2017 / 2018

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      <th>Date</th>
      <th>What</th>
      <th>Links</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
  
  <tr>
    <td>01.05.2017</td>
    <td>Litcoin now works with Bitcoin library for the .NET framework</td>
    <td><a href="https://github.com/MetacoSA/NBitcoin" title="NBitcoin on Github">[1]</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier/status/859139345151909891" title="As promised Litecoin can now be used with NBitcoin with the new nuget package NBitcoin.Litecoin">[2]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>03.05.2017</td>
    <td>Coinbase adds support for Litecoin</td>
    <td></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>10.05.2017</td>
    <td>SegWit activation on Litecoin (Block 1201536)</td>
    <td><a href="https://litecoincore.org/ltc-segwit-pool.pdf" title="Notice for Litecoin mining pools regarding Segwit and CSV">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>10.05.2017</td>
    <td>mSIGNA adds Litecoin support</td>
    <td><a href="https://ciphrex.com/litecoin.php" title="mSigna Homepage">[1]</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Ciphrex/status/862327976368586752" title="Twitter">[2]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>Initial production run of Lightning on Litecoin</td>
    <td><a href="http://lightning.community/release/software/lnd/lightning/2017/05/03/litening/" title="The Litening Network: Litecoin Support in LND">[1]</a> <a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/article/litecoin-has-now-deployed-segregated-witness-cm787577" title="Litecoin Has Now Deployed Segregated Witness">[2]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>2018/2019</td>
    <td>Lightning Network activation (initially Vertcoin)</td>
    <td><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-lightning-network-part-building-a-bidirectional-payment-channel-1464710791/" title="Part 1 Building a Bidirectional Bitcoin Payment Channel">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>Confidential Transactions</td>
    <td><a href="https://litecointalk.io/t/confidential-transaction-for-litecoin/69" title="Confidential Transaction for Litecoin">[1]</a> <a href="https://litecointalk.io/t/anonimity-features-zcash-integration/45/5" title="We're working on Confidential Transaction for a future release of Litecoin.">[2]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>Smart Contracts Solution (MAST)</td>
    <td><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-next-step-to-improve-bitcoin-s-flexibility-scalability-and-privacy-is-called-mast-1476388597/" title="The Next Step to Improve Bitcoin’s Flexibility Scalability and Privacy Is Called MAST">[1]</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/johnsonlau01/status/854213772684046337" title="Twitter">[2]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>Schnorr signatures</td>
    <td><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-power-of-schnorr-the-signature-algorithm-to-increase-bitcoin-s-scale-and-privacy-1460642496/" title="The Power of Schnorr: The Signature Algorithm to Increase Bitcoin's Scale and Privacy">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>TumbleBit</td>
    <td><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/better-bitcoin-privacy-scalability-developers-are-making-tumblebit-reality/" title="Better Bitcoin Privacy Scalability: Developers Making TumbleBit a Reality">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>Port Litecoin to Lamassu ATMs</td>
    <td><a href="/assets/content/2017/litecoin-roadmap-2016.pdf" title="Core Development Team Release 2016 Roadmap">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>LiteVault V2 multi-signature and BTC-LTC conversion</td>
    <td><a href="https://www.litevault.net/" title="Litevault">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>Atomic Swaps</td>
    <td><a href="https://medium.com/the-litecoin-school-of-crypto/the-case-for-litecoin-via-atomic-swaps-e825b0ec078" title="The Case for Litecoin via Atomic Swaps">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>Covenants</td>
    <td><a href="https://medium.com/the-litecoin-school-of-crypto/a-primer-to-covenants-cc58a4e815b3" title="A Primer to Covenants">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>Colored Coins</td>
    <td><a href="https://twitter.com/satoshilite/status/895392935780519936?lang=en" title="Colored coins lets people create tokens on Litecoin">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td>N/A</td>
    <td>Smart Crypto-Vault</td>
    <td><a href="https://twitter.com/satoshilite/status/887793888592658432" title="Charlie Lee on Twitter">[1]</a></td>
  </tr>
  
  </tbody>
</table>

Because a lot of this tech was initially meant for Bitcoin, there are only few articles that specifically mention Litecoin. Fortunately, the tech behind these two coins is relatively similiar, so Litecoin users can now, with minimal porting, take advantage of many of the features that have originally been designed for post-SegWit Bitcoin.

## Litecoin network status

- [Litecoin difficulty](https://bitcoinwisdom.com/litecoin/difficulty)
- [Litecoin hash rate distribution](https://www.litecoinpool.org/pools)
- [Litecoin core dev. roadmap 2017](https://litecoincore.org/)

_I will add entries as I discover them. I cannot guarantee that all information presented is correct / up to date. Last update: 31.01.2018. **If you have anything to add / change, leave a comment below. Thanks!**_