Dogecoin Breaks into Europe's Largest Exchange, No Longer Envies Bitcoin?

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Dogecoin (DOGE), the leading meme coin that started as a simple joke, has proudly entered Europe's largest Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) exchange, achieving a splendid evolution from being the exclusive domain of individual investors to a mainstream investment product coveted by global institutional capital.

According to the cryptocurrency specialized media Bitcoinist on April 29 (local time), the Swiss-based virtual asset management firm 21Shares officially listed a Dogecoin Exchange Traded Product (ETP) on Germany's Xetra, Europe's largest ETF exchange. This is a symbolic event signaling Dogecoin's full entry into the regulatory framework of the traditional financial market, standing shoulder to shoulder with major assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).

21Shares emphasized that through this listing, investors across Europe will gain secure access to the most famous meme coin in history, backed by 100% physical assets. This move is expected to act as a powerful catalyst, creating new demand and injecting vitality into the Dogecoin-related investment product market, which has recently been stagnant, failing to record significant capital inflows in the spot ETF market.

The dramatic shift in attitude by US regulatory authorities is also giving wings to Dogecoin's inclusion in the mainstream market. Recently, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) officially classified Dogecoin and 16 other virtual assets as 'Digital Commodities' rather than securities. This has significantly alleviated the regulatory friction and uncertainty that had weighed down meme coins for years, paving a highway for massive institutional capital and new financial products to flow into the Dogecoin ecosystem in the future.

Driven by these positive developments, Dogecoin is showing a strong technical trend, outperforming the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Virtual asset analyst Trader Tardigrade diagnosed through a 1-hour candlestick chart analysis that while Bitcoin tested its previous high and then entered a downtrend, showing sluggish sideways movement, Dogecoin is drawing a classic relative strength divergence pattern, raising its lows and rising.

The analyst explained that such contrasting chart movements strongly suggest a rotation of capital, with old money from the market moving out of leading assets and into Dogecoin. Having caught two rabbits – resolving regulatory uncertainty and entering the key European market – Dogecoin is rapidly emerging as a new financial black hole poised to lead the next bull run, transcending the temporary limitations of a meme coin.

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