Litecoin gained 10.15% on Friday to trade at $52.68, its largest one-day percentage gain since August 21. Bitcoin rose 8.00% the same day. Ethereum gained 8.61% as well.
Litecoin climbed 10.15% on Friday, trading at $52.68 by 18:00 (22:00 GMT) — its largest one-day percentage gain since August 21. The move pushed Litecoin's market cap up to $4.07 billion, or 0.15% of the total cryptocurrency market cap; at its highest, Litecoin's market cap reached $25.61 billion.
The token traded in a range of $47.79 to $52.74 over the previous twenty-four hours. Over the past seven days, Litecoin gained 20.98%. Twenty-four hour trading volume reached $520.77 million, or 0.31% of total cryptocurrency volume. It traded between $43.6590 and $52.7394 over that seven-day span.
At its current price, Litecoin is still down 87.46% from its all-time high of $420.00, set on December 12, 2017.
Bitcoin and Ethereum moved higher alongside Litecoin. Bitcoin last traded at $78,491.0, up 8.00% on the day. Ethereum changed hands at $2,513.30, a gain of 8.61%.
Bitcoin's market cap stood at $1,574.78 billion, or 59.62% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. Ethereum's market cap totaled $303.36 billion, equal to 11.49% of total cryptocurrency market value.
Source: Cryptocurrency News
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