Glossary
Picture-book words for a very on-chain joke. Shibe, envelope, indexer, PSBT, and the articles that unpack them.
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Updated Oct 17, 2026
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#1Shibe
The ordinal atom of Dogecoin: one hundred-millionth of a DOGE, when numbered.
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CultureDoge, Kabosu, and the face on the coin
How a 2010 photograph of a rescue Shiba became a dialect, then a ticker.
ProtocolDoginals
The 2023 metaprotocol for inscribing data onto numbered shibes of Dogecoin.
PeopleApezord
Pseudonymous author of the Doginals minter and the founding protocol note.
ProtocolShibescription
The numbered inscription object of the Doginals lineage.
ProtocolShibe
The ordinal atom of Dogecoin: one hundred-millionth of a DOGE, when numbered.
ProtocolP2SH inscriptions
Why Doginals hid their envelopes in pay-to-script-hash rather than Taproot.
CoinsDRC-20
A JSON token standard inscribed on Dogecoin, cloned from BRC-20, enforced by indexers.
CoinsDOGI
The first DRC-20 ticker — and the object lesson in competing indexers.
CoinsBRC-20
Domo’s March 2023 Bitcoin experiment, and the template DRC-20 did not bother to hide.
ProtocolBitcoin Ordinals
Casey Rodarmor’s 2023 theory of numbered satoshis, without which Doginals is an orphaned word.
InfrastructureIndexers
The off-chain machines that decide what a Doginal is, and what a DRC-20 balance is. Who came first, who left, and who still publishes a ledger.
ProtocolCardinals
A May 2023 Dogecoin inscription stack that does not share Doginals state.
ProtocolUTXO
The coin-as-object model that lets inscriptions hitch a ride.
CultureSocial consensus
The agreement that makes a metaprotocol payable.
Doge SoftDogeCoin Names
Readable .doge names on Dogecoin Layer 1 — a registrar network with dogecoinnames.com, dogefeed.app, and room to grow.
PeopleElon Musk and Dogecoin
The loudest non-founder in the coin’s second life: tweets, SNL, a chart that learned his name, a lawsuit that called it puffery, and a moon mission still waiting on a rocket.
CultureThe Dogecar: Josh Wise, Talladega, and the All-Star vote
A 16-year-old on Reddit, 67 million DOGE, a black No. 98 with Kabosu on the sheetmetal, 20th at Talladega, then a fan-vote upset over Danica Patrick.
CultureDoge4Water
Eric Nakagawa, charity: water, World Water Day 2014: 40 million DOGE, a 14 million-coin tweet, two wells promised in Kenya’s Tana River, and a campaign page that still shows $31,996.70.
CultureDoge4Kids: 4 Paws for Ability, February 2014
The Foundation’s first ‘serious’ hat after the sled: 20 million DOGE, two litters, two adult placements, and the Indian-Olympian money that had nowhere else to go.
CultureThe Dogecoin Foundation
A 2014 nonprofit that went quiet, re-established 16 August 2021, and now licenses the mark to a Nasdaq company. It does not move the chain.
CultureHouse of Doge (NASDAQ: HODO)
The Foundation’s self-described corporate arm: trademark licensee, 21Shares TDOG partner, reverse merger with Brag House, ticker HODO from 1 July 2026. Not the coin.
Picture-book terms
36 words the archive actually uses: shibe, envelope, indexer, PSBT, and friends.
p:dns
Doginals JSON protocol field for on-chain names.
DogeCoin Names
Readable on-chain names at dogecoinnames.com.
dogefeed.app
Peer registrar on the shared Names index.
Doginals
Ordinals-style inscriptions on Dogecoin.
Shibescription
A numbered Dogecoin inscription.
Shibe
The smallest accounted unit of Dogecoin in Doginals theory.
DRC-20
JSON token standard inscribed as Doginals.
BRC-20
The Bitcoin JSON token experiment DRC-20 copied.
Ordinals
Casey Rodarmor’s theory of numbered satoshis.
Indexer
Off-chain software that assigns meaning to inscriptions.
Social consensus
Agreement outside the node software.
P2SH
Pay-to-script-hash, the envelope Apezord used.