Research Scope
Dogecoin (DOGE) is covered here as a payment-oriented network associated with the Dogecoin ecosystem. This note is a market-structure and risk-monitoring reference, not an investment recommendation.
Market Data Snapshot
| Field | Observed value |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 0.070050 |
| Price date | 2026-08-18 |
| Latest daily-close change | -0.42% |
| 30-day close-to-close return | -3.13% |
| 90-day close-to-close return | -32.37% |
| One-year close-to-close return | -68.51% |
| One-year annualised volatility | +74.86% |
| One-year maximum drawdown | -76.17% |
| Observed daily closes | 400 |
Current observed market data were available for this snapshot.
What to Monitor
Research attention should centre on network resilience, liquidity, and payment/community use cases. Price data alone does not establish adoption, decentralisation, cash-flow generation, or a valuation conclusion. The reported return metrics are calculated from the stored daily-close series and should be interpreted alongside protocol, liquidity, custody, legal, and counterparty evidence.
Risk Lens
Key areas for ongoing diligence include concentration, sentiment, limited programmability, and volatility risk. Digital assets can experience material gaps in liquidity and rapid repricing; market structure, venue access, custody arrangements, and regulatory treatment can change independently of protocol activity.
Data Lineage and Method
The market-data series is sourced from Yahoo Finance via yfinance, using yfinance.Ticker.history for X:DOGEUSD. The stored basis is daily close (unadjusted crypto OHLCV) for the request window 2025-07-14 to 2026-08-18. Thirty-day, 90-day, and one-year returns use the last close and the latest available close on or before each lookback date. Annualised volatility is the standard deviation of daily close-to-close returns multiplied by the square root of 365; maximum drawdown is the lowest decline from a running closing-price peak across the stored series.
Further protocol reference: Dogecoin documentation.
Disclosure: This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice. Market-data figures are dated 2026-08-18; they are not intraday prices, forecasts, or suitability assessments.