Why these two, together
Litecoin and Dogecoin are both UTXO chains — the same accounting model as Bitcoin, where your wallet's balance is really a pile of unspent outputs rather than a single number in an account. You don't have to think about that day to day; it's just why these coins behave predictably and why a payment is either there or it isn't, with no gas token to keep topped up on the side.
The practical pitch is money. A Litecoin transfer costs a fraction of a cent; Dogecoin's fee is similarly trivial. That makes both viable for the sales where a $2 network fee on a busier chain would be absurd against a $5 item — tips, digital goods, single-item stores, community memberships. And they're widely held: LTC has been a top-tier coin for a decade, and DOGE has one of the largest holder bases in crypto, much of it people who specifically want to spend it.
What "confirmed" means here
Both are proof-of-work chains, so a payment firms up as blocks stack on top of it. The cadences differ:
- Litecoin — blocks land roughly every 2.5 minutes. We credit LTC at 6 confirmations, so a checkout typically reaches paid in about fifteen minutes.
- Dogecoin — blocks land roughly every minute. We also credit DOGE at 6 confirmations, which in wall-clock terms is closer to six or seven minutes.
That's slower than a Solana or TON checkout but far quicker than Bitcoin's hour-ish six-block wait, and the depth buys you real settlement safety against chain reorgs. If your risk posture wants more cushion on a large order, you can raise your own threshold per coin in settings — you just can't lower it below the platform floor. We wrote up the reasoning behind confirmation counts in when is a crypto payment final.
The Dogecoin address quirk, stated plainly
Litecoin adopted SegWit years ago, so LTC deposit addresses we issue are native SegWit (they start with ltc1) — cheaper, modern, exactly like accepting Bitcoin.
Dogecoin did not adopt SegWit. It has legacy addresses only — the ones that start with D. This isn't a limitation on our side; it's the DOGE network itself, and it means two things worth knowing. First, every DOGE deposit address we issue is a legacy D… address, and that's correct — if a wallet ever warns you a DOGE address "isn't SegWit," that's expected. Second, spending DOGE has to carry the full previous-transaction data for each input rather than the compact SegWit form, which is one reason DOGE uses a flat, slightly chunkier network fee. We handle that transaction construction internally; you never touch it. The only thing to take away as a merchant: DOGE addresses look different from LTC/BTC addresses, and that's by design.
Both are volatile — settle if you don't want the ride
Neither coin is a stablecoin. LTC and DOGE both move, and DOGE in particular can move hard on sentiment. If you're pricing real goods, two habits keep that from becoming your problem:
- Price in fiat. Quote the invoice in USD (or your currency) and let the checkout compute the coin amount at pay time, so a $20 item collects $20 of DOGE. More on this in fiat-priced crypto invoices.
- Auto Settle the exposure. Turn on Auto Settle and incoming LTC or DOGE converts to your chosen stablecoin at settlement — you keep the low-fee, wide-reach rail for buyers without holding a coin that might be down 8% by the time you'd cash out. Deliberately holding? Just leave it off.
Where they shine
The cheap-and-fast-enough profile makes both a natural fit for the smaller, higher-frequency corners of a business. Drop a payment link in a Discord or Telegram group and let a community tip or buy in the coin they already hold. Enable them on a POS counter where a customer scans and pays while standing there — the confirmation wait is short enough for a coffee, not a mortgage. Their low payout cost cuts the other way too: sending LTC or DOGE back out, for refunds or creator payouts, barely dents the amount.
Enabling it
If you're already on OrbChain: Settings → Accepted Coins → enable LTC and DOGE. They immediately appear in every surface you already use — hosted checkout coin picker, payment links, invoices, per-user static addresses — and pay out through the same payout API. Nothing else changes: same webhooks, same balance model, same 0.4%.
Want the full menu first? The currencies page lists every coin we support with its confirmation count and network, so you can see exactly how LTC and DOGE sit next to the rest before you switch them on.