CoinShares launches its third physically-backed ETP in 2021.

The European digital asset manager CoinShares continues to actively expand its physically-backed cryptocurrency exchange-traded product offering with a new Litecoin (LTC) ETP. According to the announcement on April 6, CoinShares has launched its CoinShares Physical Litecoin. Listed under the ticker symbol LITE, each unit of the Litecoin ETP is backed with 0.2 LTC ($45) at launch, providing investors with passive exposure to the Litecoin network’s native asset. The new investment product will be initially listed on the Swiss SIX exchange with a base fee of 1.50%, CoinShares revealed. 

LITE is now listed on Bloomberg.

The new investment product will be initially listed on Switzerland’s regulated crypto exchange Swiss SIX exchange with a base fee of 1.50%, CoinShares revealed in the announcement. LITE is now listed on Bloomberg, with an opening price of $44.5. Litecoin is a major altcoin and a fork of the Bitcoin codebase originally positioned as a “silver to Bitcoin’s gold.” The cryptocurrency was created by former Google and Coinbase engineer Charlie Lee in 2011. Litecoin is nearly identical in technical details to Bitcoin, featuring some core differences like smaller block times. 

Litecoin has a market cap of $15 billion.

Litecoin targets a 2.5 minute block time versus 10 minutes of bitcoin. Litecoin is now one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrencies, currently ranked at 9th in terms of the market capitalization of $15 billion. The CoinShares Physical Litecoin is the third crypto ETP product launched in 2021 on CoinShares’ institutional-grade ETP platform, CoinShares Physical. After debuting physically-backed Bitcoin ETP on the platform in January, CoinShares rolled out a similar product for Ether in February. CoinShares now has over $4 billion in assets under management, with Bitcoin accounting for over 60%, according to the announcement made earlier today.