Who could have thought! Litecoin is a bitcoin fork and is so much like bitcoin in its design, but what's crucial is that it has (still) low transaction fees and no stuck transactions. So all this contention related to bitcoin scaling gave rise to LTC price suddenly going up 51%.
The marketcap takes the 3rd place, just after ETH. Currenly LTC price is at $6.42.
Ride the LTC wave!