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Dogecoin fails to rally despite doge ETF launch and more upcoming funds

Even though more parties are entering the dogecoin ETF arena, the token is falling along with the broader crypto market.

Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy

Just a few days after the launch of the first dogecoin ETF, 21Shares listed its own dogecoin ETF on the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s “active and pre-launch” listings under the ticker TDOG.

“We welcome the recognition of TDOG’s listing in the DTCC registry as an important procedural step, as it reflects progress toward operational readiness. However, we are still awaiting full regulatory approval from the SEC before we can speak to commercial launch timing or make further announcements,” a 21Shares spokesperson told Sherwood News.

Dogecoin has tumbled, just like the overall crypto market, which is experiencing a major pullback. The token, the eighth-largest by market cap, is down 9.6% in the past week but is regaining some ground today, eking up 0.3% over the past 24 hours.

Last week, the Rex-Osprey DOGE ETF hit the market, coinciding with the SEC approving generic listing standards, which paves the way for speedier listings.

Inflows to date stand at $8.18 million, according to Rex-Osprey. 

In comparison, bitcoin ETFs, which the SEC approved in January 2024, recorded $4.6 billion in trading volume on their first day of trading. BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, the largest spot bitcoin ETF, recorded $386 million in inflows on its first day of trading, January 11, 2024, SoSoValue data shows.

On its first day, Rex-Osprey’s dogecoin ETF generated a trading volume of $17 million, “which would be Top 5 for year.. out of 710 launches,” Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas posted.

Several dogecoin ETFs are waiting for approval, including from Grayscale and Bitwise.

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Crypto market snaps back as sentiment lifts, with altcoins from ethereum to XRP soaring

The market capitalization of the crypto industry has jumped around $83.2 billion in the last 24 hours, with privacy-focused token Zcash and worldcoin, the native cryptocurrency of the network backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, leading market gains, jumping over 22%.

But the last 24 hours have been good across the board:

Investors have been eager to see some positive signs around the Iranian conflict ending, coupled with hopeful outlooks around the CLARITY act, both breathing some life into assets, Kairos Research cofounder Ian Unsworth told Sherwood News.

Simon Shockey, a crypto strategist at crypto wallet infrastructure firm Privy, said the upswing stems from several things converging. He pointed to how alt markets broadly were very oversold following the bug found in Zcash that shook confidence.

Friday, Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Anthropic didn’t find any more serious bugs with the Zcash protocol after Shielded Labs requested the AI firm run a security audit of the network with Mythos.

Shockey added that the pool of willing sellers has dwindled. Even if structurally, AI is a much more compelling and asymmetric bet in the eyes of allocators, many of these crypto assets have simply run out of marginal sellers despite some shorter-term narrative-driven pumps. The only people left to sell at this point are the teams themselves and VCs.

Net-net: oversold conditions plus exhausted seller bases plus a macro backdrop thats stabilized equals a snapback, especially in names that have real usage or community conviction behind them,” Shockey told Sherwood.

$389M

US Attorney David Metcalf announced Thursday the arrests of Ruslan Igorevich Tkachuk and Alexander Vladimirovich Ledenev, alleged senior members of AudiA6, a cryptocurrency money-laundering service believed to be responsible for laundering over $389 million.

The arrests coincided with a coordinated international takedown of AudiA6 and its infrastructure, involving the search of three properties, the seizure of servers and domains connected to the organization, as well as freezing cryptocurrency assets, according to a Department of Justice press release.

Tkachuk and Ledenev were “charged by criminal complaint with one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and one count of sting money laundering,” the DOJ said. If convicted, they face a maximum possible sentence of 20 years of incarceration.

Per the criminal complaint, AudiA6 offered services to conceal the origin of cryptocurrency linked to criminal activity, charging fees of up to 5% of the amount laundered.

The two defendants are in custody of Republic of Georgia authorities, and the US Attorney’s Office aims to seek their extradition to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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