Litecoin LTC price and news
Why is Litecoin up 3.2% today?
As of 21/10/2026, 06:34 (UTC), LTC was sampled at $61.46, +3.24% over 24 hours (Gate · USDT). For the closed-hour 24h window: LTC largely moved with the market. LTC rose further than this on 5 of the past 28 days. Litecoin moved up, largely in line with Bitcoin given its usual sensitivity, and most other tracked coins moved the same way. Volume was below usual, while open interest on the OKX perpetual swap stayed flat and funding was near zero. No recent report about Litecoin explains today's move, so the cause is unresolved.
Still open
- Whether any project-level announcement, filing or exchange notice about Litecoin was published recently; an official project statement or exchange notice would settle this.
- What drove the broad co-movement across tracked coins; a dated market-wide development reported by a named publisher would settle this.
- Whether any change in Litecoin-specific demand or on-chain activity occurred; on-chain data and venue disclosures would settle this.
- Versus Bitcoin
- +2.79% / BTC +1.17%+1.4 pts left after BTC × its hourly beta 1.21
- Versus the past month
- 5 of the past 28 days rose furtherClosed-hour 24h move +2.79%, 1.5× its prior 30-day median of 1.9%.
- 30-day range
- 18.6% below the high · 7.7% above the lowFrom hourly highs and lows on the same venue
- Other tracked coins
- 16 of 17 moved the same way
- 24h volume
- 0.6×of its prior 30-day daily average
- Perpetual swap
- funding near zero · open interest flatOKX perpetual swap LTC-USDT-SWAP
Computed 21/10/2026, 06:00 (UTC) from OKX · USDT hourly candles; this window and venue may differ from the live ticker above.
Written by a model from the reading above; no recent report about this coin was available to cite.
Prices, market readings and reports are shown side by side; timing alone does not show what caused a move. Methods →
Latest 120 samples, not a 24-hour chart. Lines break at venue changes and gaps longer than 3 minutes.
Latest Litecoin news and events
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How many events were tracked in the last 30 days?
0 events were received.
What is the historical hourly volatility baseline?
The 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns over the preceding 30 days is 2.70%. This is a descriptive hourly statistic, not a minute-move probability.
OKX · USDT · Context as of 21/10/2026, 06:35 (UTC)