On October 26, 2026, a summary appeared on CoinMarketCap’s Dogecoin updates page: someone influential in the community said that commercial teams making money with $DOGE should fund open-source development for the chain, for its long-term health. The page only had a summary; I couldn’t find the original link, the amount, or the list of names.

Writing code is the half that’s easiest to see. The other half is sorting through the backlog of issues, replying to users, filling in documentation, and reviewing changes submitted by others. None of that work produces new features or makes it onto a roadmap.

Launched in December 2013, with a block time of about one minute and a fixed reward of 10,000 coins per block since 2015. Making it this far has depended on people doing all that unseen work every day. #Dogecoin #Web3

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