Dogecoin Falls 14% in a Week as DogeOS Layer 2 Plans Fail to Stem Selling

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Dogecoin Falls 14% in a Week as DogeOS Layer 2 Plans Fail to Stem Selling
PrimeXBT Editorial Team
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Dogecoin lost about 14% in a week even as developers pushed DogeOS, a zero-knowledge layer 2 network, toward mainnet. Momentum gauges sit in oversold territory, but sellers still lead the daily trend. A ceiling near $0.072 now decides whether a bounce can hold.

DOGE lost about 14% over seven days, and the utility story around DogeOS has not slowed the selling. DOGE changed hands near $0.067 at last check, flat over the past 24 hours.

Over the past month the token is down about 19%, so most of that monthly damage landed in the latest week.

DogeOS targets DeFi and gaming

DogeOS is a zero-knowledge layer 2 that uses DOGE for fees, and the main chain will keep its focus on payments. The MyDoge wallet team builds it, and it settles to the Dogecoin chain with no separate token.

Timothy Stebbing, product director at the Dogecoin Foundation, laid out that split in a 2026 roadmap post on X on Nov 11. DogeOS founder and CEO Jordan Jefferson said the mainnet launch is close but gave no date. A public testnet has run since Sept 30, and more than 100 builders are working on projects, he said.

One gap remains. OP_CHECKZKP, a proposed upgrade that would let Dogecoin verify zero-knowledge proofs, has not been approved, so DogeOS relies on permissioned validators until it is.

DOGE trades below both long averages

DOGE trades under its 50-day moving average, which sits near $0.078. The 200-day average is higher still, around $0.088.

RSI reads about 29 on the daily chart, and anything under 30 counts as oversold. Such readings often come before a short bounce, but RSI can stay low for days or weeks in a strong downtrend. MACD also remains below its signal line.

A $0.072 ceiling decides the bounce

The first ceiling sits near $0.072, just above the current price. A daily close above it would open a path toward the next ceiling around $0.076. Support shows up near $0.056, with no level beneath it.

Mainnet still has no launch date, so rallies built on DogeOS headlines could fade quickly if either that or the OP_CHECKZKP approval slips.

Source: Crypto Daily™

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