Litecoin (LTC) has not escaped the shadow of its long-term downtrend since 2021. Its poor price performance has led many individual investors to ignore this 'legacy' altcoin.
However, new reports reveal quietly increasing positive signals. These signals form a basis for analysts to predict that the price may soon exceed $100.
Institutions are gathering $3.7 million in long positions despite falling prices.
This year, with companies and institutions expanding their reserves of digital assets and launching cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds, Litecoin has also joined this trend.
According to data from Litecoin Register, by the end of 2025, treasury bonds and exchange-traded funds were holding about 3.7 million long-term contracts. The total value exceeded $296 million.
"There are now over 3.7 million Litecoins held in 10 public companies and investment funds. An increase of a million long-term units since August 2025," commented the Litecoin Foundation.
The chart shows continuous accumulation over the past year. This trend continued even though long-term insurance did not reach a new record level in 2025.
Among the prominent award winners are Grayscale, Lite Strategy, and Luxxfolio Holdings. Luxxfolio Holdings aims to gather a million long-term contracts by 2026.
Additionally, the "Silver Standard" report from LitVM highlights Litecoin as the chain with the highest uptime among legacy networks. It maintained a 100% uptime over the past twelve years.
Uptime measures the continuous operational duration of the network without interruption. A blockchain with high uptime shows system stability, security, and reliability in processing transactions without technical failures.
"Institutions want sound money. They want LTC reliability for 12 years," investor Creed stated.
The fundamental data does not always create an immediate short-term impact. However, short-term forecasts from the derivatives markets look very positive.
Top traders on Binance quickly increased long positions in the second week of December. Their behavior indicates strong and positive expectations.
These factors may explain why many long-standing investors continue to trust LTC. Lucky, a cryptocurrency investor active since 2015, believes LTC will recover soon.
"I don't see $LTC staying below $100 for much longer," Lucky predicted.
The situation of LTC resembles that of several altcoins with strong fundamentals but slow price movement, such as XRP, XLM, LINK, and INJ.
Experts also argue that liquidity-backed altcoins from DATs and ETF funds are the only ones that can sustain and grow sustainably in the new phase of the market.
