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Weekly Recap Research

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Dogecoin overtakes Elon Musk's shadow? DogEos indicates DOGE is growing in a new era of its

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Dogecoin is no longer just a meme coin that has to wait for Elon Musk's post to make a splash in the market. After Jordan Jefferson, founder and CEO of DogeOS, stated that the DOGE ecosystem is growing with its own drive, both in terms of development teams, investment opportunities and building an application layer on the Dogecoin network, with DogeOS previously able to raise $6.9 million, lead. By Polychain Capital to provide the use of DOGE to expand a device to market on a trading table, as the Dogecoin system is to a more tangible structure and application.

Jefferson sees that even though Elon Musk will play an important role in pushing Dogecoin into widespread recognition, especially as DOGE peaked after it was discussed on Saturday Night Live in 2021, Dogecoin continues to garner attention today, even as Musk's flow has waned. He sees DOGE as returning to the traditional concept of crypto: being a “peer-to-peer electronic.” “cash” that is easy to use, easy to access and powered by a strong community, while stating that there are still “big things” ahead, which could see the crypto industry catch its eye on Dogecoin again in the next phase.

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US crypto nears “clear rules,” but the political game isn't over

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The US crypto industry is nearing a major turning point after the CLARITY Act made progress on the Senate Banking Committee floor, which is seen as a major step in reducing regulatory ambiguity and helping to clarify the regulatory framework for digital assets, rather than letting the market interpret the regulator's stance in an unbiased manner. As in the past, this law is being caught in the eye as one of the most important US crypto market structure laws in years.

However, the path of the bill has not been entirely smooth. Despite the strong support of the crypto industry, ethical issues, mutual concerns, such as the link between political power and crypto businesses, pending the entry into the last round of hearings, the law still passes in the Senate. The bipartisan, the.

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Top Net flows

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On May 11-17, 2026, the market mirrored further liquidity-based change in the Ethereum system, with the Ethereum Mainnet starting at $3 billion, and Base, a Coinbase-backed Layer 2 network, at a similarly high inflows level. A move comes amid Base's 2026 strategy aimed at expanding the asset market. Tokenized assets, payments systems via stablecoins and ongoing developer support, including a spin-off from Optimism OP Stack to develop the company's own internal structure and increase its technical flexibility, connecting with its user base. Coinbase's more than 110 million accounts also form a base base for both institutional and retail investors to choose from Ethereum for lower access costs and higher transaction speeds.

Meanwhile, competition in the Layer 2 market has become more apparent, with Base dominating the DeFi TVL share of the L2 market combined at around 46.58% and transaction volumes over 60%. In the latter period, many small networks, including Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, and zkSync Era, were established with capital outflows, although Vitalik Buterin has begun to turn his attention to Ethereum's scale-up development. Layer 1 is more, but cost and performance incentives continue to be leverancier in more practical L2 networks. However, Base is not the only network receiving attention, because Hyperliquid, Starknet and OP Mainnet. It is still possible to maintain inflows to some degree. Because the market began to select networks with clear business models and applications, instead of distributing liquidity to projects other than security security.

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Fear & Greed Index

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The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is one of the tools used to assess the outlook and sentiment of the crypto market, referring to scores ranging from 0 to 100 (0 stands for Extreme Fear or Extreme Fear and 100 stands for Extreme Greed).

During May 11—17, 2026, the Crypto Fear & Greed Index dropped from near 50 early in the week to the anxiety zone around 26—27 on May 17, in line with the price of Bitcoin weakening from around $82,000 to move towards $76,000 amid pressure from the side uncertainty. Geopolitics after peace talks between the US and Iran reignited tensions as crude oil prices jumped close to $105 a barrel, resulting in risky assets facing a midweek sell-off. Despite the market's modest recovery momentum on May 15, buying power was not strong enough to sustain momentum. Till the end of the week

Amid such an atmosphere of concern, capital flows in the market clearly reflect a different picture, with the Bitcoin Spot ETF having more than $145 million in outflows, while the Ethereum Spot ETF has a small inflow of around $3.5 million. In addition, the Senate Banking Committee meeting on May 14 to consider the rules. The CLARITY Act also raises more caution towards the direction of stablecoin regulation. However, some institutional investors are still moving ahead with continued Bitcoin accumulations, such as Strategy, which bought an additional 535 BTC, and Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust, which has yet to see cash outflows in the first month, reflected. The market is in a period of concerten for retail investors, one the institutional one and also sees the paces of price in digital asset hoard.

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Bitcoin ETF Flow

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Bitcoin ETFs continue to face severe volatility, especially on May 13, with a total outflow of more than $630 million, led by large funds such as IBIT with about $284 million in cash outflows, FBTC around $133 million, and ARKB another about $177 million. The massive outflows came at the same time that the price of bitcoin fell from around 82. The $76,000 zone fell to the $76,000 zone on geopolitical pressures after U.S.-Iran peace talks faced uncertainty, including soaring crude oil prices, despite a slight inflow of about $27 million from the force on May 11. The backing of MSBT funds, however, quickly returned to pressure the market over the next period.

Mais, a la marché n'était pas dans un état de mal, avec le 14 mai, à la session du Comité de Banque du Senate sur la CLARITY Act, a été à l'inflows de capital de la $131 millions, le a IBIT à partir de $144 millions en cash inflows, il 15 mai il revert de $290 millions en cash outflows. But the recovery on May 14 led institutional investors to see price adjustment as a rhythm of seat accumulation. Amid a market climate where the Fear & Greed index is in a neutral to some worrisome zone, a move reflects that even external factors will Pressure is on short selling, but investment structures via ETFs remain attractive to capital as prices fall to significant levels.

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Ethereum ETF Flow

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The period from 11 to 15, 2026, which is the trading day of the Ethereum ETF funds market, has shown a continuous and very intense outflow during the week. Le 12 est consideré le plus prominente, quando BlackRock's ETHA fund ha circa $102 milioni di outflows di cash-e, a l'ETHE di Grayscale ha un outflow aggiuntivo di circa $37 milioni, risultando un totale. Net market outflows in a single day were above $130 million. Throughout the week, ETHA had continuous cash outflows on a daily basis, reflecting that institutional investors are in a period of systematically reducing their holdings of Ethereum amid market conditions that are still fluctuating due to factors. outwardly

Meanwhile, even on May 14, when the Bitcoin ETF fund had $131 million in inflows, the Ethereum ETF continued to have about $5.6 million in continuous outflows, reflecting sell-side pressures that still outweigh Bitcoin. However, Fidelity's ETHB fund is an exception, managing to have inflows of around $11.7 million on May 12. Quel est le jour la marché avec les plus d'outflows. A dispersion of such flows reflects that even though the overall market is in a state of mitigating risks from geopolitical tensions and rising energy prices, some investors are still opting to accumulate Ethereum through. Funds with a lower cost structure, compared to the sources of the initial generation such as ETHE, which has more prices, are the most investment part.

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Important news:

JPMorgan points out Bitcoin is also leading the market, while Ether and Altcoins need to accelerate proof of use  

Strategies to Buy with $1.5 Billion in Bonds, Can Use Cash or Sell Bitcoin to Become a Breakout Planner  

U.S. CME and ICE Hijack Hyperliquid Review, Afraid of Price Spinning Risks in Crypto Derivatives Market

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Source:

https://intellectia.ai/news/crypto/base-networks-growth-and-token-exploration

https://defillama.com/chain/base

https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/majority/chairman-scott-senate-banking-committee-advance-clarity-act-in-historic-bipartisan-vote

Note: This analysis is provided every Monday, so some articles may have data discrepancies.

Note: Questo analisi è situato ogni monday, quindi alcuni parte del articolo possono contengono informazioni inaccurati

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