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Exchanges: 14 entities, Ł11,378,359

A trading venue, broker or custodian holding LTC, usually on behalf of customers. Figures normally reflect customer balances, not the company’s own treasury.

Investment products: 22 entities, Ł2,567,167

An ETF, ETP, trust or fund whose shares are backed by LTC. The figure is the LTC held by the product, not by its sponsor.

Company treasuries: 12 entities, Ł868,366

A company holding LTC on its own balance sheet as a treasury or investment asset, including mining companies holding coins they produced.

Miners: 41 entities, Ł341,761

A mining pool that mines Litecoin (typically merge-mined with Dogecoin), identified by its coinbase tag. The figure is the LTC it mined that has never been spent. Mining companies are listed under Company treasuries.

Governments: 1 entities, Ł10,765

A national or sub-national government body holding LTC, whether as a reserve asset or as funds seized through legal process.

Ecosystem: 8 entities, Ł1,322,063

Protocols, extension blocks, bridges, wrapped tokens and other Litecoin infrastructure that hold or lock LTC, such as MWEB, the Lightning Network and wrapped LTC.