Litecoin was trading at $80.493 by 02:26 (06:26 GMT) on the Index on Wednesday, up 19.19% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage gain since April 2.
The move upwards pushed Litecoin's market cap up to $4.863B, or 2.84% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Litecoin's market cap was $14.099B.
Litecoin had traded in a range of $76.553 to $83.889 in the previous twenty-four hours.
Over the past seven days, Litecoin has seen a rise in value, as it gained 30.42%. The volume of Litecoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $4.968B or 6.15% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $60.2668 to $83.8894 in the past 7 days.
At its current price, Litecoin is still down 80.84% from its all-time high of $420.00 set on December 12, 2017.
Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading
Bitcoin was last at $4,919.6 on the Index, up 5.84% on the day.
Ethereum was trading at $165.99 on the Index, a gain of 11.39%.
Bitcoin's market cap was last at $86.830B or 50.65% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while Ethereum's market cap totaled $17.461B or 10.19% of the total cryptocurrency market value.
