Do you remember when I told you that, just for fun, I was having a race between Solana and LiteCoin. The aim was to see for which one I could acquire I complete token for first. LiteCoin had a significant head start, but token acquisition was slanted in favour of Solana. Hence, I dubbed the race the Rabbit and the Tortoise.

At the time - January 26 2026 - I was holding 0.16 Solana and 0.58 LiteCoin

To recap and update the rules:-

I can acquire LiteCoin by trading, so long as it is sourced from what I am already holding. This carried its own risks and given the market conditions I have not had and opportunity to do this. The other main sources of income are DutchyFaucet, Cointiply and CoinPayU. At the time I thought we might be on the verge of a bull run and said that particularly with Cointiply and CoinPayU that I might hold and not convert too quickly, My thought has proven to be wrong and so I am taking the minimum each time I reach that threshold - with Cointiply that is $3 and with CoinPayU it is just $1. With DutchyFaucet I am taking each time I acquire 0.1 LiteCoin.

Conversely, for Solana, I am staking on Coinbase - although to be honest this is making a minimal contribution to what I am gaining. This also has an effect on the ability to trade as with LiteCoin because I would have to unstake it first which can take up to five days, during which time market conditions may well change and make it not worth the time. As with LiteCoin market conditions have not been been conducive to trading so this hasn't happened anyway. Furthermore I am also utilising  DutchyFaucet for direct acquisition and with it staking, I am adding 0.001 at a time as each crumb counts.  At the time of writing I was also going to actively convert DutchyFaucet's Coin of the Month unless it added value to my portfolio in its own right. However DutchyFaucet all but abandoned swaps so this was no longer possible and it is the reason why I am now holding small quantities - dust if you like - of useless tokens such as SPACE. With this change I have also updated what I am doing with my Publish0x USDC. While I am still drawing it on the last Monday of each calendar month I have changed how I am designating it in that I am no longer holding approximately 50% as USDC, I am basically converting the entire whole dollar amount to Solana and just keeping cents as USDC.

These cents are crumbs towards an exit strategy for my entire initial investment amount (no I am not abandoning crypto - I just want to take out what I put in), with the plan being that once the race has been completed, that being when I have got an entire token for both Solana and LiteCoin that I will keep all of my Publish0x USDC and now add to it with my Cointiply and CoinPayU as well as profit consolidation through trading. 

This is the current state of play

And so there you go. As expected Solana is now catching up rapidly, although I still have no idea which will cross the line first. LiteCoin is on the verge of having another 0.01 added from DutchyFaucet, but it has just had funds added from CoinPayU and Cointiply and with the former it will be another month before anything else is added and with the latter probably 3 months. If market conditions change LiteCoin does have the advantage of being more readily tradable with the unstaking delay restrictions on Solana. Meanwhile Publish0x USDC will continue to be added monthly and it has just received a boost in that Solana has been voted Coin of the Month on DutchyFaucet.

In fact it was discovering this when I woke up this morning that prompted this article.

And for those of you who are asking why? I do believe there is value in both tokens and especially Solana and making it a race it is just a bit of fun that keeps it interesting - oh and by the way its FREE anyway. 

So there we go. I have no idea which token will cross the line first, but if I were to look at it as objectively as possible I would say that in the last 3+ months approximately 0.5 has been added to Solana and over the same time frame only 0.17 has been added to LiteCoin. So if that trend were to continue Solana could cross the line in another two months with LiteCoin dawdling at about 0.87. We will have to see and even the differing value of the Coins might be a factor.

To put it simply, a single US dollar buys more LiteCoin than Solana. Furthermore, if Solana takes off and LiteCoin doesn't this will work in LiteCoin's favour. While less likely the opposite could be true too.

As always stay safe and well my friends