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The Dogecoin price has surged over 10% in the last seven days, providing a bullish outlook for the foremost meme coin. This development has occurred due to several factors, including Donald Trump’s decision to ease off on certain tariffs. 

Why The Dogecoin Price Surged Over 10%

CoinMarketCap data shows that the Dogecoin price has surged over 10% in the last seven days. This price surge specifically began over the weekend following reports that Donald Trump’s much-anticipated tariffs on April 2 might be confined to only sectors and not as broad as earlier feared. 

In an address yesterday, Trump also mentioned that he might give many countries a break on reciprocal tariffs, a move that could cool off the trade wars and provide a bullish outlook for the Dogecoin price and the prices of other risk assets. As such, this has sparked a bullish sentiment among investors who again look to be betting heavily on DOGE, a move which has sparked this surge for the meme coin. 

The Dogecoin price also surged due to the Bitcoin price’s recent rise to as high as $88,500. The foremost meme coin shares a strong positive price correlation with the flagship crypto. As such, DOGE is bound to rally as BTC reaches new highs. Thanks to Bitcoin’s surge, the outlook in the broader crypto market is bullish, and DOGE is also benefitting from it. 

Dogecoin whales are also actively accumulating amid these developments, which has contributed to the price surge for the Dogecoin price. These whales bought over 120 million DOGE last week. House of Doge, the corporate arm of the Dogecoin foundation, also bought 10 million DOGE to launch its official Dogecoin reserve. 

DOGE Ready For Rally To $1

In an X post, crypto analyst Master Kenobi suggested that the Dogecoin price is ready to rally to the psychological $1 level. This came as he highlighted a massive bullish divergence that could propel DOGE close to $1 by June later this year. The analyst had previously revealed that DOGE is mirroring a bullish pattern from the 2017 bull cycle. He predicted that the meme coin could reach $1.1 by June if it witnesses a second parabolic phase in this cycle, just like in 2017. 

Crypto analyst KrissPax also mentioned that the Dogecoin price continues to trade in a similar pattern to the 2017 bull cycle. He remarked that if the second large breakout of this cycle happens, then DOGE could surge above its current all-time high (ATH). His accompanying chart showed that the meme coin could rally to $4 when this breakout occurs.  

At the time of writing, the DOGE price is trading at around $0.184, up over 4% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

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The co-founder of a popular cryptocurrency took a swipe at Layer-2 cryptos, claiming that these rollups are only redundant and make blockchain scaling more complicated.

Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of the Solana network, argued that Layer-1 solutions are sufficient without Layer-2 tokens which do not offer genuine, long-term benefits.

Layer-2 Not Needed?

Yakovenko said in an X post that Layer-2 cryptocurrencies are unnecessary and only add unnecessary complexity to blockchain scaling.

“There is no reason to build an L2,” Yakovenko said in a post, which is the Solana co-founder’s response to @ripdoteth, who claimed that there is no reason to build a Layer-1.

The crypto co-founder argued that Layer-1 solutions, like the Solana network, can already offer efficient, cheap, and secure scaling solutions. Hence, he said that Layer-2 tokens are only providing redundancy.

There is no reason to build an L2.

L1s can be faster, cheaper, and more secure.

They aren’t slowed down by a glacially moving L1 data availability stack, or have to compromise security with complex fraud proofs and upgrade multisigs. https://t.co/Ov3YAfz9U4

— toly 🇺🇸 (@aeyakovenko) March 23, 2025

“They aren’t slowed down by a glacially moving L1 data availability stack, or have to compromise security with complex fraud proofs and upgrade multisigs,” he explained.

He added that Solana does not encounter these kinds of problems since it has separate execution and data layers on an efficient base layer.

Storage Issues

Yakovenko described Solana’s data generation as tiny at 80 terabytes annually, saying that Layer-1 cannot scale because they are hindered by storage.

“Solana generates a measly amount of data. Like 80TB per year so far. It’s just not enough data to build a business around, but too much for any individual to easily store,” Yakovenko said.

Solana market cap currently at $71.5 billion. Chart: TradingView.com

The crypto co-founder told users not to create baseless Layer-2 cryptocurrencies, saying early this month, “You can skip creating a valueless L2 and just launch a token.”

When asked about Solana’s plan on offloading unused storage, he responded that the ledger is going on “filecoin or whatever decentralized storage provider wants it.”

Some Do Not Agree

Several crypto investors disagree with Yakovenko, arguing that Layer-2 solutions are necessary.

“L1s can’t scale to accommodate 8 billion global users. L2s are needed no matter which chain you see leading the way. And they can be faster, cheaper, more secure, interoperable, specialized to use case, localized or decentralized, evolve fast or ossify,” @RuzhyoX commented on Yakovenko’s post.

The Solana co-founder replied that Layer-1 can accommodate 8 billion users, saying, “8 billion * 3 txs per day is sub 300k tps. That fits in under 1gbps of block throughput for 400 byte txs.”

He argued that Solana’s design allows it to compete with every Ethereum Layer-2 solution directly, which is not the case with Ethereum itself. “There is no point to multiple L2s … if a single L2 can handle parallel execution, then it can use up all the blobspace and run every use case.”

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