The Original Doge — the 2010 Reddit post that named the meme. John Monarch wrote it, and sixteen years later he is still here.

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What that single post set off — over the next sixteen years.
the post
2010
Dec 2013Dogecoin launches — the first meme coin.peaked $80B+ market cap
2014A NASCAR runs the Doge wrap.first physical-world crossover
June 2021The original photo sells as an NFT.$4M · top NFT of the year
Nov 2024Musk names the Dept. of Government Efficiency.a U.S. agency named after a meme
2025A satellite carries the image to orbit.the meme leaves Earth
ongoingSNL. Intl. Doge Day. A documentary.cultural permanence
2010 · the post
Dec 2013Dogecoin launches — first meme coin.peaked $80B+ market cap
2014A NASCAR runs the Doge wrap.first physical-world crossover
June 2021The original photo sells as an NFT.$4M · top NFT of the year
Nov 2024Musk names the D.O.G.E. agency.a U.S. agency named after a meme
2025A satellite carries the image to orbit.the meme leaves Earth
ongoingSNL. Intl. Doge Day. A documentary.cultural permanence
Dogecoin took the word from a post. Every dog coin after took it from Dogecoin. There is one post, it is dated, and it is still up.
By 2014 it had stopped being a post. It was a way of talking.
It has already changed thousands of lives — ordinary people became millionaires because of it.
all of it — from one post.
20102026
for sixteen years
but the man was real

From that post came the photo — the face the world would call doge.

— John Monarch
May 2026 — the relaunch

And then people made things out of it.

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7.6% burned
Explicitly burned — not locked — to reward the OG holders who stayed.
02
5% locked 10 years
Time-based on Streamflow. Non-revocable. Verifiable on Solana right now.
03in development · soon
The DAO — coming
Community governance is in active development — the original Doge, steered by its community. Launching soon.
one post · one word · sixteen years
$OGDOGE$OGDOGE

Now it has a name he carries himself.

In 2010, nobody knew it was the beginning of something legendary. This time, you do.
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contract address · solana
$OGDOGE
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Every one of these coins can be out-shouted. A new one launches, takes the attention, and last month’s is forgotten. It has happened to dog coins that were worth billions.

Except this one. It’s the only PvE — you can’t PvP the origin.

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the supply
1,000,000,000

Minted on May 7, 2026. All there will ever be.

76,142,637 already burned.

This number can only go down.

Dogecoin has no cap — about five billion new coins every year, forever. This one can’t add a single token.

Eight billion people. Fewer than 924 million tokens.

923,857,362 verify →
Not financial advice. Memecoins are extreme-risk, highly volatile assets and most go to zero. Always do your own research and never risk more than you can afford to lose.
— a documented story —

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