LitVM V2 to upgrade infrastructure and co-develop Charms integrations

LitVM said it is upgrading its core infrastructure and co-developing the Litecoin and Ethereum integrations of the Charms protocol, according to a post titled "Introducing LitVM V2: A Bigger Vision" on litvm.com, available at https://www.litvm.com/blog/introducing-litvm-v2/. The post describes V2 as two changes: a new bridge architecture developed with the creator of Charms, and a migration of the rollup-as-a-service (RaaS) layer to Zeeve.

Why it matters

The bridge is the headline of V2, according to LitVM. The post says the new architecture replaces the existing Litecoin-to-LitVM connectivity. It does not describe the replacement in technical detail beyond the Charms design.

LitVM describes Charms as an open-source protocol for programmable assets across UTXO-based blockchains. Per the post, assets are validated client-side by the participants in a transaction and backed by zero-knowledge proofs that verify an asset's full history, rather than being locked in a contract run by a bridge operator. LitVM said that when a Charms asset moves between chains it is anchored to its origin chain and natively represented on the destination, and that on Ethereum it becomes a standard ERC-20.

The post says Charms is already live on Bitcoin and that its Cardano integration is complete. LitVM said it is working with Ivan (@imikushin), the developer behind Charms, to fund and accelerate the Litecoin and Ethereum integrations. The post says the Charms code has been MIT-licensed from the start and that the work extends the protocol itself, not only LitVM.

LitVM also said the same protocol can carry Litecoin Ordinals, LTC20 tokens and other Litecoin-native assets. For background on those asset types, see Litecoin Ordinals, Runes, and Programmable Assets on LitVM. The post presents the goal as interoperability between LTC and Litecoin-native assets and the Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cardano ecosystems, with value flowing back to Litecoin.

The second change is operational. LitVM said the existing infrastructure showed strain in the form of RPC latency, indexing delays and explorer lag. It said the Zeeve migration will bring more RPC nodes, better throughput and a block explorer that indexes in real time. Zeeve is described in the post as one of the leading RaaS providers for Arbitrum Orbit chains.

LitVM said the underlying stack is unchanged: Arbitrum Nitro/Orbit, with Espresso for sequencer decentralisation and Succinct for ZK settlement described as "in the pipeline".

Background

LitVM is Litecoin's EVM rollup, endorsed by the Litecoin Foundation. Its public network is the LiteForge testnet, which has been live since April 2026. Mainnet has not launched. Settlement is on Ethereum first, with Litecoin planned for later phases; see When LitVM Mainnet Launches for the settlement phases and status.

LitVM's documentation lists BitcoinOS Grail as the bridge that moves LTC in and mints zkLTC 1:1, and Caldera as the operations provider for RPC, explorer, faucet and monitoring. More on the current bridge is in BitcoinOS Grail Bridge on LitVM. The V2 post does not name either company in connection with the changes it announces. The current design is covered in LitVM Architecture: How the Hybrid Rollup Works.

The post says the infrastructure pressure follows testnet growth. LitVM said LiteForge has processed 4–5 million transactions on peak days, which it put at roughly half the daily volume of Robinhood Chain. It also said the activity reflects genuine usage rather than incentive farming. Those figures are LitVM's own and were not independently verified here.

Earlier LitVM announcements point the same way. LiteForge passed 300 million transactions, announced on 8 September 2026. On 9 September 2026, co-founder Aztec Amaya said testnet load was hitting infrastructure limits and that an upgrade was under way.

What's next

The post says V2 sits at the centre of the Q4 milestones on LitVM's updated roadmap. It gives no dates for the new bridge, for the Zeeve migration or for the Litecoin and Ethereum Charms integrations. The size of LitVM's funding for the Charms work was not disclosed.

Current network configuration for the testnet is on the LiteForge testnet guide.