Apezord is the name attached to the February 2023 open-source repository that defined how Dogecoin inscriptions are encoded. We know them the way we know Satoshi: as a published text, a first object (Shibescription #0), and a set of extensions that later indexers had to honor or break.
The text
The repository is a minter, a small server for viewing, and a protocol section of unusual clarity. Three extensions distinguish it from a naive Ordinals port: multipart content in one transaction (~1500 bytes of useful data per tx in the original note), P2SH as the envelope, and cross-transaction chaining with descending numeric separators so an indexer can know how much payload remains.
Later markets, wallets, and JSON token rules are commentary. If a stack cannot parse Apezord’s envelope, it is not in this lineage, whatever it calls itself.
Sources
Primary texts for this chapter. The full index lives on Doginals sources.
- apezord/doginals — GitHub