On Thursday, Litecoin exhibited a notable decrease in its market value, trading at $71.53 by 10:48 (15:48 GMT) according to the Investing.com Index. This represented a substantial 10.26% drop on the day, the steepest percentage decline recorded since November 3, 2025.
The sharp fall in Litecoin’s price led to a contraction in its market capitalization, which fell to $5.70 billion. This figure equates to approximately 0.18% of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization. Historically, Litecoin reached a peak market value of $25.61 billion, highlighting the scale of its relative decrease.
Examining recent trading patterns, Litecoin had fluctuated within a price range of $70.92 to $76.81 over the preceding 24 hours. In the broader context of the past week, the cryptocurrency has suffered an overall loss of 8.21%. Trading volume in the 24 hours prior to the reported time stood at $1.23 billion, accounting for 0.87% of the total volume of all cryptocurrency trades. Throughout the prior seven days, Litecoin's price ranged between $70.92 and $82.37.
Despite the current trading price, Litecoin remains significantly below its historical peak, trading down 82.97% from its all-time high of $420.00, recorded on December 12, 2017.
Other major cryptocurrencies also recorded downward movements on Thursday. Bitcoin was priced at $95,672.50 on the Investing.com Index, down 1.11% for the day. Ethereum similarly declined by 1.08%, trading at $3,309.12.
Regarding market capitalization, Bitcoin remains dominant with a valuation of $1,913.96 billion, comprising 59.01% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. Ethereum held a market cap of $402.18 billion, representing 12.40% of the overall market capitalization.