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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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Solana falls to a more than 3-month low

The price of solana has been struggling, dipping below $76 briefly on Tuesday, a level not seen since February.

Despite the underlying asset suffering, solana ETFs saw $115 million of inflows in May, the highest monthly figure in 2026, data from SoSoValue shows. The investment vehicles have brought in a total of $1.1 billion since their inception last year and have yet to record a monthly outflow.

However, positive ETF flows haven’t swayed traders, who are increasingly negative: prediction market-implied odds of solana dropping under $60 in the year stand at 60%, an increase from 45% three weeks ago.

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"ETF flows for Solana have been positive but relatively small, so they currently only have a marginal effect on the overall price discovery for SOL," according to Carlos Guzman, research analyst at crypto trading firm GSR.

"Solana has been caught up in the broader crypto market weakness, where, outside of a few sectors that have attracted interest of late, including perpetual exchanges, privacy, and AI, most crypto token performance has been sluggish," Guzman told Sherwood News. "The meme coin narrative that drove interest in SOL in late 2024 and early 2025 has largely subsided, so the token has found itself outside of the current zeitgeist."

Meanwhile, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile announced on Tuesday that it acquired Helium Mobile, a wireless carrier that runs on the solana blockchain. The two companies both declined to disclose the deal’s financial details, according to a report from Fortune.

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(Event contracts are offered through Robinhood Derivatives, LLC — probabilities referenced or sourced from KalshiEx LLC or ForecastEx LLC.)

"ETF flows for Solana have been positive but relatively small, so they currently only have a marginal effect on the overall price discovery for SOL," according to Carlos Guzman, research analyst at crypto trading firm GSR.

"Solana has been caught up in the broader crypto market weakness, where, outside of a few sectors that have attracted interest of late, including perpetual exchanges, privacy, and AI, most crypto token performance has been sluggish," Guzman told Sherwood News. "The meme coin narrative that drove interest in SOL in late 2024 and early 2025 has largely subsided, so the token has found itself outside of the current zeitgeist."

Meanwhile, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile announced on Tuesday that it acquired Helium Mobile, a wireless carrier that runs on the solana blockchain. The two companies both declined to disclose the deal’s financial details, according to a report from Fortune.

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Ethereum developer unlocks $2 million of trapped tokens from 2016 ICO contract

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have been a way for people in the crypto space to fundraise capital that involved users sending ethereum to a smart contract with the expectation of receiving a project’s tokens.

Despite the popularity of ICOs, a number of projects failed, were unable to meet fundraising goals, and then, for one reason or another, were unable to return investors’ capital. One such example was HongCoin, which aimed to be a decentralized venture fund across borders.

On Sunday morning, blockchain sleuth 0xFlorent announced unlocking 1,003.62 ethereum tokens, worth $2 million, in HongCoin’s 2016 smart contract, enabling the 48 initial investors to claim funds that have been trapped for nine years. Of the investors, two have so far claimed a combined 96.5 ethereum.

The contract held all of the investors’ ethereum and was meant to auto-refund the cryptocurrencies, but “a bug in the refund function quietly broke that, and the funds got stuck,” 0xFlorent said in an X thread.

The HongCoin recovery was the second one the ethereum developer has disclosed in the past eight days. Last Sunday, 0xFlorent said they unlocked over 19.3 ETH, worth $40,590, that were stuck in two old contracts.

As to whether 0xFlorent will unlock more tokens stuck in ICO contracts, the security researcher doesn’t know. “It’s not my main activity and I did it because I found a way to help people. That’s it," 0xFlorent told Sherwood News.

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