Litecoin was trading at $78.356 by 05:14 (09:14 GMT) on the Index on Saturday, up 11.56% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since April 2.
The move upwards pushed Litecoin's market cap up to $4.834B, or 2.61% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Litecoin's market cap was $14.099B.
Litecoin had traded in a range of $79.158 to $78.404 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Litecoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 8.1%. The volume of Litecoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $3.737B or 6.62% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $66.7683 to $82.3389 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Litecoin is still down 81.34% from its all-time high of $420.00 set on December 12, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Bitcoin was last at $5,819.3 on the Index, up 10.12% on the day.
Ethereum was trading at $165.48 on the Index, a gain of 4.89%.
Bitcoin's market cap was last at $102.909B or 55.52% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while Ethereum's market cap totaled $17.574B or 9.48% of the total cryptocurrency market value.
