Are people still talking about Dogecoin in 2026? I am even surprised to see that the coin is still floating between 11&12 rank of market capitalization because it's been long I hear people talk about Dogecoin the way they diid in 2021 when the hype was still very high and I thought that by now Dogecoin will be trading at $20+. If there's any significant reason that people love about Dogecoin, I think it's those two reason that you already listed which is why I guess it's still ranking 11 by market cap. I like low fee and speed transaction, if I can not get it from the blockchain network that I often use, then I will turn to use Dogecoin as an alternative.
Dogecoin is one of the memecoins that has managed to survive this long. And perhaps Dogecoin is no longer considered a memecoin at this point. I personally believe that Dogecoin has gone through various experiences that have caused its popularity to rise dramatically. We can also see that the Dogecoin community was once very influential in boosting its popularity. And we can still see that its twelfth-anniversary celebration took place just last December (
Source). Many events have shaped Dogecoin’s journey making it even more famous and a topic of conversation to this day. And we can’t deny that Dogecoin’s popularity has also been influenced by Elon Musk who was once part of its community regardless of the controversies surrounding him. So I personally believe that the active community’s continued support for Dogecoin has had a major impact on the cryptocurrency itself which is why people are still talking about it. On the other hand I’m a Dogecoin user myself even though I don’t use it very often. But the widespread market support for transactions using Dogecoin is one of the reasons I use it and even likely why others do as well. This ranges from the many exchanges that still support it to various companies that do as well which is also due in part to how inexpensive it is to use.
As far as I know, what actually caused dogecoin to gain the traction it got in the previous years was because so many people believed that it was Elon Musk coin, like you said. He was tweeting about it back then and that got some people believing that something great will happen with the coin. You said it's not considered as meme coin, so what should it be considered as now?
What could make Dogecoin to trend again is if Elon is still part of the project, I remember he made a promise of SpaceX launching satellite Doge-1 in 2021 but it was just an empty promise, perhaps just to make the coin pump.
