Breaking news from the Litecoin Foundation has seen Litecoin take a new direction. At the time of writing, Litecoin is up 0.87% and is only expected to rise through the day. Of course, this rise is only very minor, but given the current state of the markets, it is encouraging Litecoin to really stand out.

At the time of writing, Litecoin’s neighbours EOS and Stellar are down 7.78% and 5.25% respectively.

What’s happened that is taking Litecoin up?

According to Coindesk, the Litecoin Foundation have acquired 9.9% of German Bank, WEG Bank AG, after taking the share from TokenPay.

TokenPay purchased their share in May this year. In this move, they have now purchased another 9.9%, meaning TokenPay still hold an equal amount of shares, which compliments their plan to eventually buy the firm in its entirety. According to Coindesk, Charlie Lee, the founder of Litecoin has said:

"I'm looking forward to integrating Litecoin with the WEG Bank AG and all the various services it has to offer, to make it simple for anyone to buy and use Litecoin."

Moreover, according to Coindesk, Matthias von Hauff, the CEO of WEG Bank AG has said:

"We have thoroughly and diligently examined the prospects of a common future, and we became convinced that the future of banking will make adoption of such modern payment methods inevitable."

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