Infrastructure
Doginals protocol (apezord)
Open-source minter and protocol for inscriptions on Dogecoin, publicly introduced by apezord in February 2023—the foundational tooling layer of the Doginals era.
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The Doginals protocol entry documents foundational open-source work that made Dogecoin inscriptions practical for the public—not a commercial NFT brand.
Key facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | github.com/apezord/doginals |
| Author (public) | Pseudonymous apezord |
| Repo created | 2023-02-23 |
| Public announcement | 2023-02-24 |
| Type | Protocol documentation + CLI minter |
Historical role
Before markets and large free mints, someone had to ship a minter. Apezord’s tooling adapted Bitcoin Ordinals-style inscription ideas to Dogecoin (including envelope conventions and multi-part payloads described in the README). Community histories treat this as the birth of Doginals as a practical category.
Later products—wallets, automated markets, and collections including Doginal Dogs—depend on that category existing. Credit for protocol possibility and credit for cultural scale belong to different chapters of the same history.
Related repositories
Early ecosystem references also include apezord-linked wallet experiments (e.g. Woof Wallet) and ord-dogecoin-related work. Verify current maintenance status on GitHub before relying on software.