Recently, Dogecoin entered the top-20 cryptocurrencies and replaced Zcash [ZEC] on the CoinMarketCap charts. The coin has been seeing a persistent bull run with minor downturns at the intervals. Despite the market depreciating lower, the 20th largest cryptocurrency in the world is enjoying the bull ride and is currently up by nearly 26% on the weekly chart.
At 7:00 PM UTC, Dogecoin was trading at a price of $0.0064 and soon rallied upward to gain a better momentum. At 1:00 AM UTC, the cryptocurrency was experiencing a huge hike in price with a 1-hour bullish candle that opened at $0.006765 and closed at $0.006833. However, in a matter of six hours, the price came crashing down $0.006192 with a market cap of around $719 million. At the time of writing, DOGE has been observed to go up by 5.10% and is trading at $0.00666 with a market cap of around $763 million.
Dogecoin 1h price chart | Source: Trading View
The story of the upward rally of Dogecoin started when the news of the launch of Dogethereum smart contracts broke. With the launch of Dogethereum, the purpose of connecting the gap between Dogecoin and Ethereum’s blockchain is to to be fulfilled.
Following the overtake of Zcash, Dogecoin also touched the 18th rank on the charts 11th September [today]. The coin is being traded the most on Gate.io with the highest trading volume of $30 million in the past 24 hours, followed by ZB.COM and Poloniex where the trading volumes are at least above $10 million.
Just a week ago, Poloniex added the pair of Dogecoin with Tether [USDT], enabling both the communities to trade across the markets. Regarding the spike of his cryptocurrency, Jackson Palmer, the creator of Dogecoin expressed his views on Twitter. He wrote:
“Mentions get flooded like this every time the price of @dogecoin unsustainably spikes and I say “ha, that’s kind of dumb”. Might just start blocking these people. “
This was in response to a comment by a Twitter user. The user commented:
“Same dumb shit that had you create it now gtfo out the way as we pump this into the billions.”
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