It is a massive Pump and Dump, nothing else. The Litecoin thing has exactly same real value as before, that value is precisely zero. The thing used by no real world applications whatsoever except by day traders in China, and I can assure you (even if you make millions in short term on day trading) that is a not a sustainable business model.
The only real world Crypto application besides Bitcoin is GetGems. All other alts have failed to deliver an app that is simple to understand, has a use case and enough incentive to people to use.
And this one GadgetNet https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-gdgc-gadgetcoin-iot-m2m-smart-contracts-on-hardware-854280 , an IoT coin/blockchain with real world use cases like adult and gaming P2P live video streaming. That's what crypto needs, real world use cases.
And of course Bitcoin is used already by real world apps and GetGems is cool too.
Well a lot of altcoins have potential to become useful in the real world but even bitcoins right now are not really that useful, yes you can buy a lot of things but it still needs a lot of work and its price is definitely not determined by that, most of the times.
I am not talking about theoretically what alt can be useful. Theoretically all alts could be useful, theoretically they can be even currency exchange unit in monkey shit trading. Anything. However, currently not even NXT (which has a massive community) is used in real world application. All of them, including Litecoin is just pure day trade speculation commodity.
The very few IoT and technology coins like GadgetCoin is purposefully and by design attached to a real world use case. Instead of trying to find use case to the application, they build the application for a use case.
Bitcoin doesn't have to do that as Bitcoin for the quite right reason is relatively widely used (if the 100,000 active users most of them traders qualifies as wide usage, but comparing to other alts it definitely is).