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Every Doginals chapter we have sourced.

This is not a sitemap dressed as a paragraph. It is the reading order of a culture: the coin, the envelope, the coins-as-JSON, the collections that actually shipped, the indexers that fought, and the stack at Doge Soft that made the next click obvious. Open any title. Follow the links inside. When you want to hold something, leave.

The orbit

Doge SoftThe Dogecoin Layer 1 stack — self-custody wallet, explorer, Pulse, swap, bridge, Doginals, docs. Every road on this site is supposed to arrive here.

Doginals collections

LabradogesTen thousand Doge Labs identities — Unleashed Doginals recast as packs, opened into Labradoges.Doginal Dogs10,000 hand-curated pixel dogs on Dogecoin. Free mint 11 January 2024. A collection, not the word Doginals.Du$tinalsDoge Soft’s collection-in-orbit. Primary page: time.dogesoft.io. No fake mint numbers.DogemapsSequential parcels on Dogecoin — a documented inscription type in Doge Labs’ inscripter and Doge Soft’s explorer.

Doginals protocol

DoginalsThe 2023 metaprotocol for inscribing data onto numbered shibes of Dogecoin.ShibescriptionThe numbered inscription object of the Doginals lineage.ShibeThe ordinal atom of Dogecoin: one hundred-millionth of a DOGE, when numbered.Inscriptions on DogecoinHow bytes are packed into scripts so that a later reader can call them art, or a token, or both.P2SH inscriptionsWhy Doginals hid their envelopes in pay-to-script-hash rather than Taproot.Bitcoin OrdinalsCasey Rodarmor’s 2023 theory of numbered satoshis, without which Doginals is an orphaned word.CardinalsA May 2023 Dogecoin inscription stack that does not share Doginals state.UTXOThe coin-as-object model that lets inscriptions hitch a ride.How to read an inscriptionA field guide: content type, envelope, UTXO, indexer, then taste.

DRC-20 coins

DRC-20A JSON token standard inscribed on Dogecoin, cloned from BRC-20, enforced by indexers.DOGIThe first DRC-20 ticker — and the object lesson in competing indexers.BRC-20Domo’s March 2023 Bitcoin experiment, and the template DRC-20 did not bother to hide.

Much history

DogecoinA Litecoin descendant launched as a joke on 6 December 2013, which then refused to remain one.From Kabosu to Doge SoftA one-sitting path: coin, protocol, DRC-20, collections, indexer, then Doge Soft.

Indexers & clerks

IndexersThe off-chain machines that decide what a Doginal is, and what a DRC-20 balance is.Random block rewardsThe first ~145,000 Dogecoin blocks paid a pseudorandom subsidy — the trap under every honest indexer.Doge LabsA 2023 infrastructure house: genesis indexer, wallet, marketplace, explorer.

People

Billy MarkusThe engineer who turned a splash page into a chain; later “Shibetoshi Nakamoto” in jest.Jackson PalmerThe marketer who bought the domain, drew the joke, and later walked away from crypto.ApezordPseudonymous author of the Doginals minter and the founding protocol note.Casey RodarmorAuthor of Bitcoin Ordinals; the upstream intellect of Doginals.

Culture

Doge, Kabosu, and the face on the coinHow a 2010 photograph became a dialect, then a ticker.Social consensusThe agreement that makes a metaprotocol payable.The 2021 boomWhen the joke became, briefly, one of the largest assets in digital finance.Tipping cultureDogecoin’s first product was a gesture, not a settlement layer.Public voicesThe X accounts and repos you can actually click — not a fake leaderboard.