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Meme-derived open-source cryptocurrency whose DOGE token trades on major exchanges and underlies several US spot exchange-traded funds.
Bitwise confirmed its Dogecoin ETF will stop trading on October 14, with distributions to shareholders to follow, crypto.news reported. For those holders the payout date now matters more than the week's $57.2 million net exchange outflow, about 0.4% of DOGE's market value.
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DogeOS opened a public zk-rollup testnet aiming at 300 transactions a second, ten times Dogecoin's base layer, Crypto Briefing reported. Until a Dogecoin upgrade proposed in July 2025 lets the base chain verify the rollup's proofs, its security leans on a permissioned sequencer.
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DogeOS opened a public testnet on September 30 that brings Ethereum-style smart contracts to Dogecoin, whose DOGE token has a $14.7 billion market cap. Until Dogecoin can verify the rollup's proofs, DOGE used as programmable capital would depend on the bridge's signers.
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Gavin Newsom signed AB 2409, barring platforms from offering Californians new memecoins tied to federal, state or local officials from January 1, 2027. The rule covers officials far beyond California's own, so exchanges now have to know who stands behind each launch.
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Cryptobriefing traces every dollar of crypto's $740 billion gain since late August to the Treasury's expanded bond buybacks. Cointelegraph, reporting the same prices on the same day, does not mention it. Perpetual futures leverage is near $160 billion in both accounts.
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Decrypt reports the fund closes before its first anniversary. The report gives no assets figure, no launch date and no closing date, so fewer than twelve months is the only number the story currently has.
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Bitwise is closing its Dogecoin ETF in October after about ten months on NYSE Arca, and the fund's own filings show net assets of $473,547 at the end of June against $1.15 million six months earlier.
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