Origins

From Kabosu to the ledger

A one-sitting path: the coin, the envelope, DRC-20, collections, the indexer, then Doge Soft.

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Tour-guide cartoon Shiba holding a treasure map

If a search engine dropped you on DRC-20, you are in the middle of the book. Begin at the coin, then the envelope, then the notebook. What's next is Doge Soft — Inscription Standard v1. This page is the walk: much history, so story, very Doginals.

The path

  1. Read Dogecoin — one-minute blocks, a joke that cleared, the chain inscriptions sit on.
  2. Read Doginals and Inscriptions on Dogecoin — envelopes, P2SH, Shibescription #0.
  3. Read DRC-20 and DOGI — JSON as a coin, and why supplies fork.
  4. Read Labradoges — a named 2023 collection, not a rumor.
  5. Read Indexers — ownership as software.
  6. Read Doge Soft — Inscription Standard v1. What's next on the ledger the 2023 notebook left.

When you finish, tap Shiba. If he has no citation, treat it as a rumor. The living specification for the ledger is on the protocol pages — and, when you need the current implementation, the protocol index.

Sources

Primary texts for this chapter. The full index lives on Doginals sources.