Dogecoin and Elon Musk have had an extended relationship. It appears Dogecoin’s value is instantly proportional to Musk’s bullish tweet concerning the meme coin. To not neglect that the billionaire’s tweets of late have been failing to provide a powerful affect on Dogecoin.
Nicely, persevering with his streak of manipulating Dogecoin’s value both voluntarily or involuntarily, Elon Musk triggered a pointy rise within the meme coin on 28 Could.
Dogecoin X SpaceX
The ‘DOGEfather,’ in a tweet on 27 Could, introduced that sooner or later, SpaceX shall be accepting Dogecoin as a method of cost for its merchandise.
Tesla merch might be purchased with Doge, quickly SpaceX merch too
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2022
Initiated earlier this year, Tesla ran the provide for individuals to purchase Tesla-related merchandise resembling a whistle and even a quad bike designed for youngsters, the cyberquad.
Now, SpaceX is about to deploy comparable options for its customers the place it may promote equipment and attire price anyplace between $15 to $150 in DOGE.
This may skyrocket [pun intended] Dogecoin’s utility past its present scope.
Because the information broke out, traders reacted positively. With DOGE’s value operating up on the charts by 14.74% at its peak within the day.
Nonetheless, the hype died down quickly after, ensuing within the altcoin retracing its leap by 10%. Buying and selling at a press time value of $0.0818, the rise didn’t actually assist DOGE recuperate the losses noticed all through the week.

Dogecoin value motion | Supply: TradingView – AMBCrypto
Nonetheless, this nonetheless was not sufficient to excite the dormant traders who obtained into DOGE over the interval of three months after the market started dipping in February.
Regardless of not going through a fall in value as worse as many different altcoins, DOGE has famous no vital development in its holders. After shedding out on 600k traders in March, Dogecoin has solely recovered 100k of them in two months.

Dogecoin whole traders | Supply: Intotheblock – AMBCrypto
Furthermore, regardless that the community has virtually 4 million DOGE holders, lower than 50k on common are lively on-chain. These individuals make up nearly 1.25% of all Dogecoin traders, and that isn’t a great signal.

Dogecoin lively traders | Supply: Intotheblock – AMBCrypto
It’s because, despite their greatest efforts, these 1.25% traders haven’t been in a position to generate any greater than $1 billion in transaction quantity, which on common was once near $7 billion to $10 Billion earlier than February.

Dogecoin transaction quantity | Supply: Intotheblock – AMBCrypto
Put merely, Dogecoin is now dependent solely available on the market and a broader restoration since these elements are usually not contributing a lot to its development.