Say it right
Terminology
The words we use on purpose — coins, not tokens — plus Doginals, koinu, and the rest.
A short, opinionated glossary. Most of it is standard Dogecoin vocabulary — a few entries are Doge Soft being deliberate about language, and it's worth knowing why.
"Coins," not "tokens"
Across every Doge Soft surface — the wallet, Explorer, Swap, these docs — a fungible DRC-20 asset is a coin. Not a token. There's no contract issuing IOUs on someone else's chain; a DRC-20 coin is inscribed directly onto Dogecoin L1 using the same UTXO model as DOGE itself. "Token" implies a layer of abstraction that isn't there. Please follow this convention in any integration copy, error messages, or support content you write against these APIs.
Glossary
DRC-20 Coin
Fungible unit on L1
A fungible asset defined and moved by plain-text inscriptions on Dogecoin, following the DRC-20 spec.
Doginal
Non-fungible inscription
A one-of-a-kind inscription on Dogecoin L1 — Dogecoin's answer to Ordinals, collected like an NFT.
Koinu
Smallest DOGE unit
1 DOGE = 100,000,000 koinu. Amounts in raw APIs are usually koinu integers, not decimal DOGE.
Commit / reveal
Two-step inscription
An inscription is funded in a "commit" transaction, then written on-chain in a "reveal" transaction that spends it.
Envelope
The inscription payload
The plain-text JSON (deploy/mint/transfer) carried inside a reveal transaction's scriptSig.
Move
Third pipeline step
The transaction that actually reassigns an inscribed transfer to its recipient, once the reveal is indexed.
Indexer
The chain, tracked
A service that replays every Dogecoin L1 block to track DRC-20 balances, UTXOs and inscriptions.
PSBT
Partially Signed Bitcoin Tx
A standard unsigned-transaction format used for swaps, marketplace listings and multi-input flows.
L1 / L2
Dogecoin vs. DogeOS
L1 is Dogecoin mainnet. L2 is DogeOS, an EVM-compatible layer the Bridge connects to.
Provider
window.dogesoft
The object the browser extension injects into every page so apps can request access to a wallet.
Launch
Collection mint + members
launch.dogesoft.io — list a Doginals collection, mint a LAUNCHPAD_MINT inscription, gate a page on holders.
Bonding curve
Launch pricing
A formula that prices a newly-launched coin against the DOGE reserved in it as more of it is bought.
Attester
Bridge signer
One of several independent signers whose combined signatures authorize a Bridge mint or release.
What we avoid saying
- "Gas" — Dogecoin uses a fee-per-byte model, not a gas market. We say fee.
- "Mining a transaction" — a transaction is confirmed in a block; miners mine blocks.
- "Deposit with us" — nothing here custodies by default; we say send to your address.