---
id: "litecoin_address"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["cryptocurrency"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/litecoin_address"
---

# Litecoin address (`litecoin_address`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Mainnet address of Litecoin. P2PKH addresses are Base58Check with version byte 48 and start with L; P2SH addresses use version byte 50 and start with M; native SegWit addresses use the prefix ltc1 (Bech32 for witness version 0, Bech32m for Taproot). Older P2SH addresses with version byte 5 start with 3 like Bitcoin's and are not matched, nor are MWEB addresses (ltcmweb1).

- Parent datatype: `crypto_address`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Cryptocurrency (cryptocurrency)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:[LM][1-9A-HJ-NP-Za-km-z]{33}|ltc1q[02-9ac-hj-np-z]{38}|ltc1[qp][02-9ac-hj-np-z]{58})$
```

## Examples

- `LT2KVaAy1ppRuxRgrS5RNU3vBsy7RibPeA` — P2PKH address from the test data of Litecoin Core (key_io_valid.json)
- `MHrYRxAiMNBTku3eoDHwhA1LQGDjUStZW2` — P2SH address from the test data of Litecoin Core
- `ltc1qhdhvrwe6rgqns8fz28tee0hphr5x7ulw5exv4w` — P2WPKH address from the test data of Litecoin Core
- `ltc1ppu2gv0tujus0f6eggrk7eqmaf0567x6zer4fcuhz4z7ztzq9u9yseqxltc` — Taproot address from the test data of Litecoin Core
- `1PMycacnJaSqwwJqjawXBErnLsZ7RkXUAs` (invalid example) — Bitcoin P2PKH address (p2pkhaddr)

## Translations

- ru: Адрес Litecoin

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litecoin>
- doc: <https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/src/chainparams.cpp>
- other: <https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master/src/test/data/key_io_valid.json>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/litecoin_address.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/cryptocurrency/litecoin_address.yaml>