Litecoin was trading at $41.030 by 15:33 (20:33 GMT) on the Index on Wednesday, up 10.03% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since December 18.
The move upwards pushed Litecoin's market cap up to $2.557B, or 1.33% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Litecoin's market cap was $14.099B.
Litecoin had traded in a range of $35.944 to $41.034 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Litecoin has seen a drop in value, as it lost 8.75%. The volume of Litecoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $3.773B or 3.73% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $35.9438 to $44.6735 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Litecoin is still down 90.23% from its all-time high of $420.00 set on December 12, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Bitcoin was last at $7,189.4 on the Index, up 8.48% on the day.
Ethereum was trading at $130.91 on the Index, a gain of 7.22%.
Bitcoin's market cap was last at $128.799B or 66.74% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while Ethereum's market cap totaled $14.202B or 7.36% of the total cryptocurrency market value.
