Dogecoin’s official account has directly rebutted a long-held view that “Dogecoin has no developers.” It said the core development team, the foundation and various ecosystem projects are still developing. It also stressed it is building a real blockchain ecosystem beyond a meme coin.

On June 27, blockchain media outlet U.Today reported that the Dogecoin official account recently posted on X, formerly Twitter, the phrase: “BUT DoGeCo1n HaS No DeVs?!” It then added: “We salute all our BUIDLrs, past and present.”

The message came in the course of replying to a question from Alex, chief technology officer at MyDoge, who asked who is building Dogecoin through the market cycle. In the same exchange, it introduced that the core Dogecoin team, the Dogecoin Foundation, House of Doge, MyDoge, DogeOS and hundreds of ecosystem projects are continuing development.

Dogecoin’s remarks signalled an intent to correct a perception, repeatedly raised due to its meme-coin image, that it is a “project where development has stopped.” The official Dogecoin website also says the claim that it has no developers is not true, and that developers have continuously taken part since the project’s early days.

Its development history was also revisited. Dogecoin was created by co-founders Billy Markus (빌리 마커스) and Jackson Palmer (잭슨 파머), but the early core version was developed directly by Markus. After both co-founders stepped away from the project in 2014, a new development team was formed, and it is now run as open source, with a small number of maintainers coordinating contributions from various developers.

Its technical foundation has also steadily evolved. The Dogecoin development team adopted a development approach that, from Dogecoin Core 1.10.0 released in 2015, re-forked from Bitcoin code and reflected Litecoin improvements. Through this, it has used technology from the proven Bitcoin ecosystem while developing Dogecoin-specific features.

Dogecoin said it plans to continue development to pursue the goal of “The People’s Currency.” It said this requires various forms of participation, including part-time contributors, volunteers, developers and engineers.

Its ecosystem expansion is also continuing. Search, a search application released in beta last May, recently added a feature in an update that allows users to generate unique invitation codes and share them with other users.

Its payments ecosystem is also expanding. House of Doge began supporting Dogecoin native payments at more than 6,000 merchants worldwide after partnering with crypto payments company MoonPay in June. The feature is provided via MoonPay Commerce.

The announcement does not stop at explaining the controversy over a lack of developers. Dogecoin presented its development organisation, open-source development system, new service launches and examples of expanded payments alongside the message that the project is still actively developing. With moves continuing to build a real-use ecosystem beyond a meme coin, interest is also gathering in Dogecoin’s future technical expansion.

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