Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) showed a sharp increase in market activity as its open interest rose to $1.3 billion in the last 24 hours. According to the latest Coinalyze data, Dogecoin's open interest went up by 5.24%.

Open interest (OI) shows how much money is flowing into a specific market. A rise in OI means that more traders are entering the market and taking positions, which could influence the next price direction for DOGE.

What Happened: The latest data from Coinalyze revealed that the majority of the $1.3 billion open interest in Dogecoin was in perpetual contracts, which are futures contracts with no expiry date. Many traders prefer these contracts as they can get exposure to price changes continuously without any need to roll over contracts.

The crypto exchanges Binance and Bybit are handling the largest share of the Dogecoin open interest market.

The chart shows that Binance has $581 million of DOGE open interest, while Bybit holds $410 million. The third-largest exchange in terms of open interest is OKX with $244 million. On the other hand, Huobi, BitMEX, and Kraken have smaller portions of the OI.

The majority of the trading activity is concentrated on a few key platforms. The 5% growth in open interest suggests that an increasing number of traders are betting on the next direction of Dogecoin's price.

While the OI data doesn't specify whether the traders are long (expecting a price rise) or short (betting the price will drop), the jump is a sign that a price change will happen soon.

The volume of leveraged positions and the next direction of the Dogecoin price will determine whether the rise in open interest will result in gains or losses.

Top 4 Hour Heatmap: OKX and Coinbase Lead in New DOGE Money Inflows

The last four hours saw the highest DOEX trading activity at Binance with $18.57 million and OKX with $10.97 million came in second. Data shows $4.34 million to $5.15 million of activity was found on Kraken, Coinbase and Bybit.

It is clear from the net inflows heatmap that most of the new money coming down this meme coin's trades ends up at OKX with $1.33 million and at Coinbase with $1.25 million. Unlike these two exchanges, Binance, Kraken and Coinbase had very little net inflow.

Dogecoin stays at the top of meme coins sector with Shiba Inu ranking second.

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