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The market's indifference reflects a structural shift toward macro-driven trading, where BTC's 58.2% dominance and ETF flows ($350M/day inflows) now drown out retail sentiment. This contrasts sharply with the 2021 'meme season' where similar events boosted DOGE/SHIB by 20%+; today's neutral volume (3.1% below 30-day avg) confirms institutional control has raised the signal-to-noise threshold.

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This exemplifies how mainstream media increasingly misapplies 'breakthrough' labels to academic papers, creating artificial demand for speculative tokens. The market's current 38 Fear & Greed score reflects exhaustion from such noise events, with high BTC dominance (56.2%) showing capital fleeing altcoin narratives. Long-term, this signals growing institutional disillusionment with non-fundamental drivers.

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