Dogecoin (DOGE) is a meme cryptocurrency launched on December 6, 2013, a fork of Litecoin and Luckycoin. It uses the Scrypt Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm and since July 2014 supports Auxiliary Proof-of-Work (AuxPoW), allowing merged mining with Litecoin.

• Block time: 1 minute

• Block reward: 10,000 DOGE

• Supply: Unlimited (~5 billion DOGE issued annually)

• Consensus: Proof-of-Work (Scrypt) + AuxPoW merged mining

Dogecoin is widely used for low-fee microtransactions, tipping, and payments. Its ecosystem includes wallets, block explorers, exchange integrations, and merchant tools.