LitVM LiteForge testnet launches, bringing EVM smart contracts, DeFi, and Web3 to Litecoin for the first time.

Polygon CDK under the hood means LitVM is architecturally just another CDK chain — same proving stack as Astar zkEVM, OKX X1, and a dozen others. 120 teams in the builders program sounds impressive until you remember that Base had 1,000+ at testnet and still took months to generate meaningful TVL beyond bridge deposits. LTC sitting at $81 with 35% YoY drawdown tells you the market isn't pricing in a DeFi catalyst yet, which either means smart money doesn't buy the thesis or there's a genuine mispricing if mainnet actually ships with native LTC yield. The make-or-break question is whether zkLTC liquidity can bootstrap independently or if it just becomes another EVM ghost chain where the same 50 degens rotate the same wrapped assets.

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