Have you checked out the price of litecoin recently? It is now no. 3 in exchange volume behind bitcoin and ether because transactions fees are cheap. A $25 bitcoin transaction fee is only 25 cents using litecoin. Whenever I have to send a payment I try to use litecoin if possible until LN is working.
Thats really nice, I was wondering why it shot up so high up in the rankings. THe bad thing is that its not as widely used as BTC and ETH.