Elon Musk admits he got carried away leading DOGE
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Celebrity-driven token cycles are increasingly being reframed as cautionary tales, not playbooks. Worth monitoring if this cools retail appetite for personality-led coins and pushes more capital back toward infrastructure and regulated products.
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