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# Litecoin (LTC) price and news

Sampled market data; prices and returns do not verify news or establish causation.

- Price: $61.75; 24h: +4.04%
- Market source / sampled at (UTC): Gate · USDT / 21/10/2026, 07:33
- Events received in 30 days: 0

## Why is Litecoin up 4.0% today?

As of 21/10/2026, 07:33 (UTC), LTC was sampled at $61.75, +4.04% over 24 hours (Gate · USDT). For the closed-hour 24h window: LTC largely moved with the market. LTC rose further than this on 6 of the past 29 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.

- Versus the past month: 6 of the past 29 days rose further; Closed-hour 24h move +3.14%, 1.7× its prior 30-day median of 1.9%.
- 30-day range: 18.1% below the high · 8.4% above the low; From 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

Computed 21/10/2026, 07:00 (UTC) from OKX · USDT hourly candles; this window and venue may differ from the live ticker above.

### Open questions

- 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.

## Prior 30-day hourly baseline

- Coverage: 100.0% (720/720)
- Median absolute hourly return: +0.35%
- 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns: +2.70%
- BTC beta: 1.21
- Source / cutoff (UTC): OKX · USDT / 21/10/2026, 07:34
Hourly statistics cannot be compared directly with minute moves. Missing or stale baselines are not estimated.

## Recent publication-ready events and observed returns

Returns start after site detection. Each linked event records its actual sampled intervals, venue, quote currency and news sources. Missing windows remain unavailable; publisher coverage is not independent verification.

| Event | Evidence | 5m | 1h | 24h | 5m difference from BTC |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

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