Swap Litecoin to Monero. No account, no KYC.
CoinVast swaps LTC to XMR in one payment: paste a Monero address, send Litecoin, and after 4 confirmations, about 10 minutes, we screen the deposit, exchange it at a 0.5% floating spread, and send Monero straight to your wallet.
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No account · Deposits screened before exchange, never frozen after
Everyone talks about BTC to XMR like it is the only road into Monero. It is the famous one, sure. But it makes you pay Bitcoin miners real money and wait roughly 20 minutes for 2 confirmations before anything happens. Litecoin does the same job for a few cents and confirms in about 10. If the goal is simply to end up holding XMR, the quiet route is often the better one.
The privacy gap between the two coins is the whole point of the trip. Litecoin, like Bitcoin, is a transparent ledger: every payment you have ever made sits in public, forever, ready to be clustered and labeled by anyone with a block explorer. Monero hides the sender with ring signatures, the receiver with stealth addresses, and the amount with confidential transactions. Not as a feature you remember to enable. As the default, every time, since 2014.
Getting XMR the old way meant a big exchange, and the big exchanges have been showing Monero the door. Binance delisted it in 2024 and Kraken pulled it for European customers the same year, not because the protocol broke but because privacy coins make compliance departments sweat. So the LTC to XMR trade now mostly lives on instant exchangers like this one.
Which suits the pair fine. No account, no order book, no permission slip. Paste a Monero address, send one Litecoin payment, and the card has already shown you what arrives, our 0.5% spread and the network fee included. Most swaps on this pair finish in 10 to 25 minutes.
LTC → XMR, by the numbers
- You send
- Litecoin (LTC) on the Litecoin network.
- You receive
- Monero (XMR) on the Monero network, at an address you control.
- Deposit confirmations
- 4 on Litecoin. At roughly 2.5-minute blocks, that is about 10 minutes of waiting before the exchange starts.
- Minimum swap
- 0.05 LTC. Below that, network fees would eat too much of the swap to be worth it.
- Spread
- 0.5%, printed on the quote next to the payout network fee. There is no deposit fee.
- Typical total time
- About 10 to 25 minutes from sending your LTC to XMR arriving at your address.
Confirmation counts and minimums above are the live values our exchange engine uses, not marketing copy. Block times are network averages and can vary.
Three steps. One of them is just waiting.
- 01
Set the amount, paste your XMR address
Choose how much LTC you are sending. The card quotes your XMR payout with the spread and network fee already counted in. Paste the Monero address the payout should land at, plus an optional LTC refund address in case the swap cannot complete.
- 02
Send one LTC payment
You get a deposit address on the Litecoin network. Send your LTC to it from any wallet, in one payment of at least 0.05 LTC. No account, no email, nothing to install.
- 03
Watch the order page
Your deposit needs 4 confirmations on Litecoin, about 10 minutes. We screen it before the exchange starts, then send XMR to your address and post the transaction hash on your order page.
Why people move LTC into Monero
The hop coin tradition. People who want Monero often start at an exchange that refuses to sell it, so the playbook became: buy a liquid coin, withdraw, swap. Litecoin won the job of middle leg years ago because exchange withdrawal fees on LTC are tiny, the network fee is cents, and 4 confirmations take about 10 minutes instead of Bitcoin's 20. The boring coin turns out to be the best courier.
Transparent ledgers keep diaries. Your LTC history is public: who paid you, when, how much, and which addresses cluster together. Reading it requires no subpoena, just patience and a browser tab. Moving savings into Monero does not delete the old diary, nothing can do that, but it stops new entries from being written where strangers can read them.
Cash for the internet. Plenty of people hold a fast transparent coin for everyday payments and a private one for everything they would rather not publish. LTC for the coffee, XMR for the things that are nobody's business. The swap between those two roles takes one payment in each direction, and we handle both ends of it.
Delistings rerouted the market rather than shrinking it. When the listings disappeared, XMR volume moved to peer-to-peer markets and instant exchangers, which is the structural reason this page exists at all. The corridor needed a rail that does not depend on a listing committee staying brave, and a one-payment swap is exactly that.
We launched CoinVast in 2026 with screening that runs before the exchange starts, never during. Your Litecoin either proceeds at the quoted terms or returns to your refund address. No mid-swap freezes, no surprise passport requests once your coins are already in flight. On a pair where privacy is the entire point, that ordering matters double.
LTC to XMR, asked and answered
How long does an LTC to XMR swap take?
Plan for 10 to 25 minutes. The Litecoin deposit needs 4 confirmations, about 10 minutes at one block every 2.5 minutes. The exchange runs in seconds, and the Monero payout usually appears in your wallet within a couple of minutes of being sent. One honest footnote: Monero itself locks incoming funds for 10 confirmations, roughly 20 more minutes, before you can spend them. That rule is built into Monero, not into us.
Why swap LTC to XMR instead of BTC to XMR?
Cost and waiting. A Bitcoin deposit needs 2 confirmations at 10-minute blocks, call it 20 minutes, and the miner fee is real money when the chain is busy. Litecoin confirms its 4 blocks in about 10 minutes and the fee is pocket change. If your funds already sit in BTC, use the Bitcoin pair and skip an extra hop. But if you are choosing which coin to carry to Monero, LTC is the cheaper courier.
Is swapping Litecoin for Monero legal?
In most countries, yes. Owning and trading Monero is legal in the US, most of Europe, and most of the world. A few jurisdictions, Japan and South Korea among them, pushed their exchanges to drop privacy coins, and local rules differ, so knowing yours is on you. On our side, every deposit is screened before the exchange begins, and anything linked to sanctions is rejected rather than traded.
What Monero wallet do I need?
Any wallet where you hold the keys. The official GUI and CLI wallets are the reference, Feather is a quick desktop option, and Cake Wallet or Monerujo cover phones. Your main address starts with a 4 and subaddresses start with an 8; either works as the payout target. Avoid pointing the payout at a custodial service that might not credit XMR, and give a fresh wallet a few minutes to sync before worrying about the balance.
Do I need an account or ID to swap LTC to XMR?
No. There is no sign-up, no email, and no KYC under the screening threshold. You paste an address, send one payment, and bookmark the order page, which is your receipt and tracker in one. Screening happens before the exchange begins: pass and the swap proceeds, fail and your Litecoin returns to your refund address minus the network fee. A completed swap is final.
What is the minimum LTC to XMR swap?
0.05 LTC. Below that, network fees eat a share of the swap that stops making sense. There is no account tier and no upper limit wired into the card, though unusually large swaps can get a human look before the exchange starts, never after. First time here? Send something small just above the minimum and judge us on the receipts.
Is the rate fixed or floating?
The card quotes a floating rate with a 0.5% spread, and your swap fills at the market price once the Litecoin confirms, about 10 minutes after you send. Prices can drift a little in that window; that is the nature of a floating fill. For API integrations that need the number locked at creation, a fixed rate with a 1.0% spread is available there. The spread is printed up front in both cases.
Where to next
LTC in. XMR out. Nothing to sign up for in between.
Start this swapSetting it up takes under a minute. The blockchain handles the rest.