
Cardano and Litecoin founders to discuss cross-chain collaboration
While global businesses reeling from the implications of the ongoing pandemic, development is blooming in the cryptocurrency space.

Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate
While global businesses reeling from the implications of the ongoing pandemic, development is blooming in the cryptocurrency space.
And if all goes well, the community might see a Cardano-Litecoin branded product or project soon.
ADA-LTC shake hands
Earlier today, Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson reached out to Litecoin co-founder Charlie Lee on Twitterāarmed with an invitation for a possible cross-chain collaboration.
@SatoshiLite it would be great to do something together. I love the idea of testing cross chain communication between Litecoin and Cardano. We got a lot of ideas and I'm sure you guys do too
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) July 7, 2020
Lee replied with a āSure!ā in the wee hours of June 8, opening up the invite from mere ideation to a discussion.
Hoskinson asked if [email protected] still worked, to which Lee was quick to inform that āLitecoin doesn’t offer customer support.ā
He added that a relevant person from the Litecoin Foundationāan organization that oversees development on the open-source projectāwill reach out to Hoskinson soon.
Haha, no. That was a joke. Litecoin doesn't offer customer support. ?@DaddyCool1991 is Litecoin Foundation's Projects Director and he will reach out to chat.
— Charlie Lee [LTCā”] (@SatoshiLite) July 8, 2020
The community seemed pumped with the prospects of a Cardano-Litecoin collab. The two projectsāalthought different in their end-goalsābring about innovative tech designs and applications.
Cardano combines āpioneering technologies to provide unparalleled security and sustainability to decentralized applications, systems, and societies,ā its site notes. The project has seen significant developments in the past few months, such as its work on Shelley and the native Daedalus wallet (among others.)
Over 200 stake pools are already active on the Shelley testnet, as CryptoSlate reported last month.
Litecoin, on the other hand, spun off from Bitcoin in 2011; and has been long called the ādigital silver.ā It was technically very similar to Bitcoin but featured a decreased block generation time, a modified GUI, and a different hashing algorithm.
The project was first to adopt the Segregated Witness technology among the top-5 cryptocurrencies in 2018.
MimbleWimble on ADA?
Litecoinās work on MimbleWimble is active and progressing, as CryptoSlate reported this week. The framework brings about private transactions to LTC, breaking away from the earlier pseudonymity.
While thereās no discussion or confirmation on what project Cardano or Litecoin would work on, some observers suggested MimbleWimble could feature on ADA. Peer-reviewed scalability frameworksāa Cardano featureācould also spiral out.
The applications could be endless, as Hoskinson best put it :
āWe got a lot of ideas and I’m sure you guys do too.ā