How DogecoinArcade works

DogecoinArcade is a social network, messenger, token exchange and NFT arcade that keeps everything that matters on a public blockchain. There is no company database behind it: posts, names, tokens, NFTs and trades are transactions, and any node that reads the same chain arrives at the same arcade. This page is the overview. The other guides go deeper.

Tokens follow the Omni Layer rules, so anyone who has used Omni Core will recognise the transaction types and the method names. Inscriptions (images, text and interactive HTML pages) are stored in the transactions themselves.

The chain is Pepecoin, a Dogecoin Core fork. The protocol works the same on Dogecoin, and the installer can set up either one.

A node is one machine running three things:

• Pepecoin Core, mainnet: the ledger.
• Pepecoin Core, testnet: the messenger's chain.
• DogecoinArcade itself: an indexer that replays blocks into a local database, and a web interface at http://127.0.0.1:8420.

The indexer holds no authority. It computes what the chain says. A node can start from a downloaded index to save time, and the manifest beside the download lets you re-read the chain yourself and prove the copy correct instead of trusting it.

A node can run two ways:

• As a wallet, the default. One person's machine, with the node's own wallet, open only on that machine.
• As a public arcade, with --public. Other people can sign up for a seat, and strangers can see the public pages.

When you join someone's public node, your keys stay in your browser:

• Your account is twelve words, made in the browser and never sent to the node. The node stores only your public key.
• To sign in, the browser signs a one-time challenge from the node.
• Each action (a post, a send, an order, a message) is built by the node, signed by your browser, and then broadcast. The node never sees a key it could spend with.
• Your address book and your copies of your sent messages stay in the browser. The node never learns who you talk to.

This makes a node a convenience, not a custodian. Your name, coins and posts are on the chain, so you can sign in on another node, or run your own, and they are all still there.

A trade between two people is an atomic swap. It is a single transaction that either moves both sides or moves nothing. A seller signs their half in advance, and the buyer completes it later. Neither side can take the other's part without paying.

Standing buy orders can be filled while you are away, in one of two ways:

• The node fills them from lots you signed in advance, which can only be spent on the exact trade you agreed to.
• Or you get a notification and fill the order yourself the next time you open the app.

Private messages are encrypted end to end, sealed to the recipient's key, and carried as testnet transactions. They appear within seconds, straight from the mempool. Nobody else can read them, and neither can the sender once they are sent. Messaging runs on testnet only, by design: it uses no real coins and puts no load on the main chain.

A public node can screen what it shows. Each post and image is checked by a language model the operator runs. Material marked sensitive is blurred until a viewer chooses to reveal it, and illegal material is never shown. This check happens on the node. It changes only what that node displays, and it never alters the chain.

On Linux:

``bash curl -O https://dogecoinarcade.com/install.py python3 install.py ``

The installer downloads and verifies Pepecoin Core, sets up both chains as services, installs the latest release of the app and fetches the latest index bootstrap. Every node also hands out its own copy of the program and index at /clone, so the network does not depend on any one website.

• What it does: every feature, what it costs and its limits.
• Node setup: the installer, and the same steps by hand.
• Remote access: reaching your node from elsewhere.
• Inscription API: building interactive NFT pages.
• Bot RPC: scripting against a node.
• Messaging node and messaging design: how messages are carried.