“There may be completely no query that Dogecoin wouldn’t be as large as it’s with out Elon form of moving into and supporting it,” Jefferson mentioned throughout an interview with The Block’s Gareth Jenkinson on the Consensus Miami convention.
DogeOS is a serious advocate for the Dogecoin ($DOGE) ecosystem and the developer of an utility layer constructed utilizing the memecoin’s community. In Could 2025, DogeOS mentioned it raised $6.9 million in a spherical led by Polychain Capital.
Jefferson recalled how Dogecoin hit an all-time excessive after the billionaire talked about Dogecoin on Saturday Night time Dwell in 2021. However now he seems to be at current developments and the memecoin’s progress and is inspired about its future with or with out Musk’s help.
“It is attention-grabbing and superb for Dogecoin that it is like kind of began to transcend that,” he mentioned. “Elon stopped being about Dogecoin for some time like for no matter cause. He stopped doing like these stunts like altering the Twitter brand to a Doge, all this sort of stuff, however Dogecoin did not fade into obscurity.”
With a market capitalization of round $17.6 billion, Dogecoin is among the many world’s high 10 cryptocurrencies. $DOGE is presently altering fingers at round $0.11, based on The Block’s $DOGE value web page. The memecoin is kind of flat year-to-date and down about 50% over the previous 12 months.
Final 12 months, amid the digital asset treasury (DAT) growth, Thumzup Media Company purchased about $2 million price of $DOGE. The corporate had mentioned it deliberate to arrange 3,500 Dogecoin mining rigs by 12 months’s finish by means of its pending acquisition of mining agency Dogehash. Thumzup trades on the Nasdaq and is backed by the U.S. president’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
Jefferson joined Thumzup’s Crypto Advisory Board, partly so the 2 corporations might discover connecting Thumzup’s mining operations with DogeOS purposes. Thumzup later modified its title to Datacentrex.
The DogeOS govt believes Dogecoin to be larger than ever, with a number of potential for future progress. “There’s like groups like us coming in, and funding alternative, and all this potential and I imply loopy, loopy issues on the horizon I want I might inform you about, however like some large stuff that is gonna actually open the business’s eyes.”
An OG Bitcoiner, Jefferson believes Dogecoin has changed Bitcoin (BTC) in some methods. “Dogecoin is basically carrying the torch of the early Bitcoin days, and peer-to-peer digital money, and just like the OG crypto vibes that I fell in love with,” he mentioned.
