This announcement highlights Dogecoin’s prominence as the leading memecoin by market capitalization.
Grayscale Investments, the world's largest digital currency asset manager, is further expanding its portfolio of single-asset crypto products with the introduction of a new investment fund dedicated to Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE). This announcement underscores Dogecoin's leading position among memecoins by market capitalization.
Grayscale Dogecoin Trust provides institutional investors access to Dogecoin, an open-source, peer-to-peer digital currency that's an offshoot of Litecoin (CRYPTO: LTC) and, by extension, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). Operating on a proof-of-work blockchain network that mirrors Bitcoin's but is less computationally demanding, Dogecoin notably lacks a cap on the total DOGE supply.
"Memecoins have quickly become a potential tool for increasing financial accessibility, and we're excited to continue expanding our product suite to meet investor demand and provide choice within the digital asset class," said Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary, Grayscale's head of product and research, in a statement regarding the launch of Grayscale Dogecoin Trust.
The launch of this fund also coincides with an increasing interest in memecoins among traditional asset managers. In recent times, other memecoins such as the Official Trump (CRYPTO: TRUMP) memecoin on the Solana network have garnered investor attention, leading to heightened activity and network congestion on Solana.
Furthermore, asset managers like Osprey Funds and REX Shares have filed to launch exchange-traded funds for various memecoins, including DOGE, TRUMP, and Bonk (CRYPTO: BONK).
Grayscale, for its part, has continued expanding its lineup of single-asset crypto products throughout the year. In December, Grayscale launched funds for Lido (CRYPTO: LDO) and Optimism's (CRYPTO: OP) governance tokens, and in October, it launched a fund for Aave's (CRYPTO: AAVE) governance token.
The crypto fund manager also revealed an interest in around 35 altcoins for future investment products. In August, Grayscale introduced trusts targeting the native tokens of Sky, Bittensor, and Sui.
As of press time, Grayscale is the largest crypto fund manager by assets under management, holding nearly $35 billion in assets. The firm is particularly well-known for its Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds, namely the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and the Grayscale Ethereum Trust, respectively.
