Launch of MyDoge V3 & The Grand Heist

made our way over to Korean blockchain week, which we kind of go to every year at this point, and then also Singapore for token 2049. And I must say the reception that we got over there, a lot more people are talking about doge. A lot more people are talking about the doge ecosystem. I think that some of the content that we put out about, you know, what happened in the Robin Hood trenches, and that can be reflected in the doge trenches, sparked a lot of interest from a lot of the bigger communities out there. I know a lot of Salana people were talking about us. I know a lot of ETH people were talking about us. I think, you know, like Jordan, what was the takeaway? There was just so much going on, and we had so much little time, but we talked to thousands of people. Are we bullish? What's going on? Yeah, I mean, it was a bit surreal honestly. I mean, we've been at it for many, many years. We've been going to these conferences. We've been grinding. We've been, you know, trying to let everyone know that dogecoin is inevitable, and they should be, you know, integrating, working on it, partnering, whatever. But yeah, these last two weeks were actually surreal. I mean, it's not like, we're not even out there convincing anybody. Everyone's just coming to us like, hey guys, like, yeah, dogecoin, how do we get in on it? So, we insanely bullish. I mean, it's hard to translate, just chatting here. Like, I wish I wish there was a better way to translate to everyone listening how insanely bullish it is, but it's like, look, if you believe in dogecoin, like we do for all this time, I can just say there's never been like a more bullish time in history than the last few weeks. Like, everyone is also believing, and it's not just belief like it's being put into action with, you know, partnerships or integrations or people just wanting to build on doge. So yeah, I mean, literally the most bullish weeks of my career, I think probably guys can agree. Yeah, and look, we did have a bunch of meetings. I know you did a bunch of interviews. It was probably helps, like the massive test net announcement that we did leading up to, those conferences definitely helped, I think. But it was funny, the amount of people that wanted to interview you, because you are kind of like the key figurehead in dogecoin at the moment. I mean, I'm sure it's going to ramp up, but it's pretty insane, the amount of traction as well. We had a lot of institutional meetings, some big dogecoin mining firms, some people focused on RWA things that are going to be bringing into the dogecoin ecosystem. Hof met a lot of different consumer products, a lot of different people. Hof, what's the energy over on your side? Did you feel like people were more accustomed to being able to build on dogecoin? Had they heard of us before? What's going on over there? Yeah, I mean, I met so many builders, I met so many incumbent blue chip projects over there. The excitement is real. There's a few really large blue chip projects that I've been talking to who now want to come over to dogeOS, so trying to get that sorted. But I love conferences, especially when it's not a bear market conference. And this felt like a bold market conference to me, which was great. It definitely was, man. A ton of energy, everybody wanting to chat, when we met and they heard we were from dogeOS, they're like, oh, yeah, let's do something. And so my week is just absolutely packed with follow ups, which is great. I don't know, we've probably gotten something like 15 new projects building on dogeOS already, early stages, but there's a lot coming. I haven't even gone through half the follow ups yet too, so more or more. I do think this week was very focused toward consumers and bringing people into the doge world via this questing experience. Maybe Alex, you can speak to a couple of the numbers we've seen. I know that we just tweeted that 420,000 quests have already been completed in the highest. I think that numbers over, I think the numbers over 500K now, Alex, do you want to lay down some numbers for us? Yeah, I mean, it's insane. Right, the numbers have been pretty much off the chart. I think our daily active users jumped something like 7x. We've been in thousands of new users every day on V3 in particular. And I just can't overstate how amazingly smooth this has gone. There's always problems with launches. But the testament to our team and everybody that's been building for so long, it just has literally been no significant bugs or outages or anything. So really, really amazing. Yeah, and do you want to speak to some of the features that are already live? I know there is claiming faucet, test net tokens, and playing around with some of the dApps as well through the questing experience. What, like, yeah, give us an overview of what's going on in the wallet right now, what can be done? Yeah, so the next feature is... Friend and center people are seeing the grand-hice, which is our questing experience. It is itself a dApp that connects to the wallet and tracks your activity as you complete quests and earn rewards. A lot of effort went into building that one as well and everybody's done a great job. Yeah, and so connected to that on the home screen, you'll see the individual dApps. I think we have 23 partner dApps that are listed. And as Hoth mentioned, many more other builders in the wings that will become listed there. So you really see the App Store for Dogecoin taking shape. No, these are all Doge Native dApps on DojoS being featured directly in the My Doge wallet. So that's, you know, by far the biggest difference from V2 and improvement that you see just like Front and Center, then in the wallet experience, people are seeing now that next to Dogecoin, you have a number of other cryptos that are supported. Of course, all the majors, Bitcoin, Salana Ethereum, you know, Litecoin, soon to launch, but also, you know, base in some of the EVM layer twos. And from that experience, you can now swap and you can even buy a handful of your favorite cryptos. So all of these are, you know, the new features from V2 to V3, you know, that we feel is, you know, really modernizing the experience and, you know, bringing the world of crypto and Web3 to Dogecoin in the fun, easy and safe way that, you know, we've kind of established the brand. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think the next best thing to hear would just be like the thesis behind everything. You know, we have this new wallet, we have this onboarding experience that makes people navigate around on chain off chain stuff. Sorry, everything's on chain. I mean, testnet, sorry, not off chain. Don't kill me. Testnet stuff. We have people onboarding through the quest. We have this whole lore and storyline behind the, behind the questing campaign. Jordi, can you speak a little bit about what this new version of the wallet means for the ecosystem? And a little bit about questing, but as well, what do you think the main features that are going to be used inside my Doge V3? I know my audience is, I want to hear it from you first. The thesis behind everything, not like that. Yeah, wait a minute. There must be a thesis. There must be a thesis, right? The thesis behind everything. Look, it's actually pretty simple. We're all here because we believe in Dogecoin, okay? Like everyone listening to the space probably believes in Dogecoin. If there's a few skeptics there, you're going to believe by the end of it, okay? And I mean, personally, I think that Dogecoin is as barely, barely, barely scratches potential, okay? It's the biggest cultural movement in the history of the cryptocurrency industry. It is one of the biggest brands and IPs in the world, in and outside of crypto. It is the example of PvE in the cryptocurrency space where nowadays everything is PvP. No one will buy it and hold the token longer than eight seconds because they don't believe in anything. And Dogecoin represents to the world that people can believe in something, okay? And the only reason Dogecoin is worth, however many billions of dollars, the only reason that we're all still here is because we all believed in something. And so the bigger picture here is how to take that to the next level. How can we actually harness this culture, community, et cetera to build something even greater? And look, what we decided was this is big enough to be an ecosystem. It's not just a coin. It's not just a symbol. It's not just a meme. It can also be an ecosystem. What is Salona? What is Robin Hood chain? What is Ethereum? Dogecoin has something that none of these blockchains have, which is real culture and a diehard PvE community since day one. We can literally take over the world together by rallying behind Dogecoin, which we've already been doing. And all we've tried to do is build the infrastructure to turn that evangelism, rallying, passion, whatever into a bigger economy. That is the thesis. That is the goal here. We can have an economy on top of Dogecoin. We can have economy using Dogecoin. Dogecoin right now is just an asset that people trade on exchanges. Not people in this space right now, because we actually use it. We send it to our friends. We buy it. We hold it. We actually treat it like money. But the rest of the world, the rest of the industry, they just see it as an asset you trade, like any random stock or meme coin. If we build an economy on Dogecoin, if assets are paired against Dogecoin, now it becomes much, much more. It is money, but it is money that everyone's using and not just our community is using. So that's the thesis here. It's pretty simple, but it's the kind of thing they can take over the world. You mentioned something that we talk about eternally a lot. And that is that Dogecoin is just currently kind of an asset that exists majorly in centralized custody and on exchanges. And the first instance of the wallet was a secure self-custodial app where people can send their Doge on chain. They can hold it on chain. They can send receive. And that's about it. And this new version of the wallet is a lot different. So like, would you say that the thesis, one of the main core thesis behind bringing Dogecoin on chain and one of the things that will entice people to do so is these new experiences, these new opportunities to earn these new opportunities to get Dogecoin more involved within the ecosystem. Can you speak a little bit to that? Yeah. And first of all, I would say, look, what you're seeing right now as we launched this V3 wallet and test and it's only the beginning, OK? This is like the basics of, hey, we've brought the other blockchains in. We've enabled apps. We've enabled smart contracts. But what you're about to see as Dogecoin's launch is going to blow your minds. And I think there's simple things that the community can get behind that are, you know, haven't been impossible in the Dogecoin world. Like, hey, if you need some money, you don't have to sell your Dogecoin. You can actually just borrow it against it. It's going to be really, really simple. It's going to be safe. It's going to be cost effective. But I think there's more exciting things than that. And you know, for me, I think back to the early Dogecoin days and also the early Ethereum days where crypto and DAO's and smart contracts which still wait a coordinate. You know, the Dogecoin community did a bunch of cool things and the Jamaican Bob's led to the Olympics. And even more recently, you know, we built that statue of Kavosu in Japan. I want to see that kind of thing happen again. I want to see the coordination aspect of the community be facilitated by this infrastructure. Whether it's pulling money together for a greater cause, whether it's investing in something, I mean, there's so many brilliant people in the Dogecoin space who want to build in the Dogecoin world. We want to do cool things. But it's really difficult right now. How do you get the money to do it? How do you make a business out of it? Building this on-chain infrastructure, integrating it into the wallet makes it very, very easy for you to build something and put it in front of people. And have that something actually work, actually transact, actually generate revenue. Or if this is not a business, it helps you just coordinate people to do something great, to do something special. So look, you're going to be able to borrow. You're going to be able to lend. You're going to be able to earn yield on your Dogecoin, which I think people really overlook how insanely special that is. Dogecoin is inflationary. We're all holding Dogecoin. Everyone in this chat is holding Dogecoin, OK? And there is like two and a something percent inflation, nearly 3% inflation every single year. If we could simply earn 3% and beat that inflation, it flips Dogecoin from an inflationary asset and something that's, I mean, I think better than Bitcoin itself. So look, you might think, oh, wow, borrowing lending, earning, that's not so crazy. But it is actually crazy for Dogecoin. But beyond that, I think the app ecosystem sort of contracts this coordination layer just sort of empower the community to do crazy, crazy stuff. I want to see stuff that none of us have ever thought of, OK? Like, that's what special about Dogecoin. We can all go build apps on Salona if we wanted to. We could all go build apps on Ethereum if we wanted to. I want to see on DogeOS, the Dogecoin community come up with really cool shit that makes the world a better place, really cool shit that nobody thought of on these other chains. And even things that wouldn't work on these other chains, because they require a real community that believes in something. That's what special about Dogecoin, OK? It's not that like, oh, wow, it's the funniest meme in the world. It is. It's not that it's the OG meme coin. It is. It's not that Elon Musk supports it. He does. It's that this community is unlike any.