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# LTC this week: +13% in seven days, positive funding on perps
- URL: https://zipmex.com/blog/ltc-weekly-2026-09-08/
- Published: 2026-09-08T13:32:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-08T13:32:50.000Z
- Description: Litecoin closed the week at $55.3 (+12.5% in 7 days, +19.8% in 30). Market cap, the seven-day range and what the ZIPMEX perp market is charging to hold a position, with sources.
- Author: ZIPMEX
- Tags: LTC, Cryptocurrency

Litecoin (LTC) trades at $55.3 on September 8, 2026: -4.4% over 24 hours, +12.5% over seven days and +19.8% over thirty. That leaves it 87% below the all-time high of $410.26 set on 2021-05-09\. Here is what the market and the ZIPMEX perp book say about the week, with every number sourced.

## The numbers

| Price                   | $55.3   |
| ----------------------- | ------- |
| 24 hours                | \-4.4%  |
| 7 days                  | +12.5%  |
| 30 days                 | +19.8%  |
| Market cap              | $4.3B   |
| 24h volume (all venues) | $355.2M |
| Market rank             | #24     |
| Perp open interest      | $48.4K  |
| Perp 24h volume         | $2.0M   |
| Max leverage            | 20x     |

## Perps: funding and open interest

On ZIPMEX Perps the LTC/USDC market shows an estimated funding rate of +0.0098% per eight hours (last settled: +0.0100%), $48.4K of open interest and $2.0M traded in 24 hours. Positive funding means longs are paying shorts: leveraged traders lean bullish and pay for the privilege. Max leverage is 20x.

## Levels from the last seven days

The seven-day high was $59.15 on 2026-09-07 and the low $48.72 on 2026-09-02, a 21% range. Reclaiming the all-time high would take a 7.4x from here. We do not publish price predictions; these are the levels the market actually printed.

## Method and sources

Snapshot taken 2026-09-08 13:32 UTC. Price, supply and market cap: CoinGecko. Perps: ZIPMEX Perps public market data. Volume across all venues and all-time high: aggregated market data. This digest is generated from those feeds and reviewed by ZIPMEX Research; numbers on the [LTC landing](https://zipmex.com/tokens/ltc/) refresh every minute.

*Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose your capital. Nothing here is investment advice.*

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