Whales scoop up $112M in Dogecoin as price stalls at key resistance

Someone, or more likely a collection of someones, just went on a $112 million Dogecoin shopping spree. Over the past 96 hours, whale wallets collectively purchased more than 1.14 billion DOGE tokens while the meme coin continues to press against overhead resistance without breaking through.

The accumulation pattern keeps repeating

Whale accumulation in Dogecoin has been a consistent theme throughout the year, tracked by on-chain analytics platform Santiment and flagged by crypto analyst Ali Martinez.

Back in May 2026, a similar 96-hour window saw 525 million DOGE scooped up as the price hovered near its 200-day moving average.

Then in September, between the 9th and 14th, wallets holding at least 100 million DOGE each added roughly 240 million tokens as the price slid from around $0.091 to $0.081. The collective stash held by these whale wallets climbed toward 19 billion DOGE during that stretch.

Resistance at $0.10 remains the wall to watch

DOGE has been trading near the $0.10 level following a 25% weekly rally in late September, but that zone between $0.10 and $0.105 has proven stubborn.

Futures open interest for DOGE climbed to between $1.5 billion and $1.67 billion during peak activity periods. Short liquidations in DOGE derivatives exceeded $12 million during recent accumulation phases.

On a single day in September 2026, Grayscale’s DOGE ETF attracted roughly $910,000 in inflows, the largest daily figure since January.

Concentration risk is the quiet part

The top 149 wallets, each holding over 100 million DOGE, have at times controlled more than 108 billion tokens. When whales are buying, it can create a supply squeeze that pushes prices higher. When they decide to sell, the same dynamic works in reverse.

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