Lunar Digital Assets, the leading full-stack blockchain venture studio, today announced the launch of the LitVM testnet, bringing smart contracts and programmable tools for advanced Web3 applications to the Litecoin ecosystem for the first time. This testnet will be live on April 15.
Advised by Litecoin creator Charlie Lee and supported by the Litecoin Foundation, LitVM is the first EVM-enabled Layer 2 built on Litecoin. The testnet represents an important step toward establishing a hard-money Web3 ecosystem focused on resilience, decentralization, and long-term economic integrity rather than short-term cycles.
The testnet will allow teams to deploy early applications, test performance, and provide data that will guide LitVM’s path to the mainnet. Integrated collaboration with strategic partners is currently planned to include the Litecoin Foundation, BitcoinOS, Arbitrum, QuickSwap, Lunar Digital Assets, Espresso and Caldera. LitVM’s architecture adapts proven Bitcoin-based technology for Litecoin, opening up the full range of Web3 capabilities for the network.
“The industry has seen many sharp corrections and is now recalibrating with a renewed focus on fundamentals; but even in one of the toughest cycles in crypto, real teams continue to build,” said Aztec Amaya, CSO of Lunar Digital Assets and co-founder of LitVM. “Litecoin is crypto’s most proven freedom asset, cypherpunk, battle-tested, and releasing secure LTC, scalable programmability allows everyone to take things back to first principles while remaining innovative and taking our industry to the next level. This testnet is the starting point for blockchain’s next chapter.”
“This is an important step in the maturation of the Litecoin ecosystem. Since Litecoin’s inception in 2011, Litecoin’s development and awareness has remained focused on security, reliability, and accessibility for everyday transactions. LitVM extends these values into the programmable blockchain era,” said Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin. “The Litecoin Foundation supports LitVM’s initiative to unlock the capabilities of smart contracts, as it is something many in our community have been waiting for. We hope this will open the door for developers to build DeFi applications, tokenize real-world assets, and create cultural experiences directly on Litecoin without compromising its security principles. We are excited to see the potential wave of innovation this will hopefully catalyze in our ecosystem.”
Teams participating in the two-month testnet will write impact reports to ensure transparent and measurable progress from the start. Although the testnet includes incentives, the priority is technical maturity and ecosystem improvement. Participants will have access to technical support, introductions to business development, eligibility for legal and auditing credits, consideration for LitVM grants, and potential entry into the first LitVM Tesseract accelerator cohort after mainnet. Key contributors will be highlighted in LitVM’s content and impact reports.
So far, more than 50 teams have already committed to developing dApps on LitVM, led by a team of Web3 experts, including AztecAmaya, Roc Zacharias and Edan Yago. Advisors include Charlie Lee and David Schwartz, David Chaum, Mario Nawfal and Michael Terpin, who bring extensive experience in crypto, partnerships, media scale and strategic communications. In the midst of a difficult year for crypto, LitVM’s April 15 testnet offers a rare example of real technical progress. Backed by strong communities and experienced contributors, it adds programmability to one of crypto’s original financial assets, signaling significant, forward momentum at a time when the industry needs it most.
LitVM invites teams, listeners, researchers and ecosystem contributors from the Litecoin, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Arbitrum communities to participate before the testnet launch. For more information, please visit
About LitVM
LitVM is Litecoin’s virtual machine, enabling smart contract capabilities and Web3 applications for Litecoin. Officially endorsed by Charlie Lee and the Litecoin Foundation, LitVM is committed to fostering a “Hard Money Web3” ecosystem, including Litecoin yield opportunities, real-world assets, AI, and more. For more information, please visit
About Lunar Digital Assets
Lunar Digital Assets is a leading Web3 venture studio offering a full range of marketing, incubation, PR and BD-related services. The team is responsible for incubating companies like Polygon, QuickSwap, and the hit Crypto podcast “The Aggregated.” Lunar Digital Assets operates as a comprehensive incubation, marketing and PR support team that assists in the scaling, launch and development of blockchain projects and their ecosystems. For more information, please visit
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