It is very difficult for litecoin to move to $30 by XMas. Maybe 5-10 dollars. There is not much innovation in litecoin, it is just a tool for speculation.
And nothing technical has changed since 2013. If you'd put in $100 into LTC at the start of that year you would've ended it with $30,000. It's still largely pointless but it's plugged into China and they're the daddies.