What Doge Cube is
Doge Cube shows Dogecoin as it happens. The block being filled right now is a glass cube, and every transaction waiting to get into it is a small parcel inside. When a miner finds the block, it slides into the row of blocks along the top and a new cube starts to fill. On Dogecoin that happens about once a minute.
You can go back to any block, all the way to the first one in December 2013. You can walk into the blocks, pick up any parcel to see what's in it, and find Doginals inscriptions, dogemaps, names and tokens where they really sit on the chain.
It's the Dogecoin twin of Block Cube, the portal's Bitcoin cube: the same idea and the same rooms, with Dogecoin's own data and Dogecoin's own story.
Every screenshot on this page was taken on the live portal on 12 November 2026, so the blocks and transactions in them are real.
Reading the cube
This is the first thing you see. The gold numbers on the picture match the list under it.
- The block tiles. NEXT is the block being filled right now; the rest are the newest blocks. Click one to look at it. The arrow goes further back.
- Block weather. How busy each block was over the last day. Switch to a week, a month or three months, and click a bar to open that time.
- The block you're looking at. Its number, how many transactions it holds, how full it is, its fees and its new coins. Click the big number to type any block number or paste a transaction ID.
- The cube. Each small block inside is one transaction, which Doge Cube calls a parcel. Point at one to light it up, and click to keep it and read about it.
- Parcel types. Light up just one kind: inscriptions, text, images, web pages, dogemaps, names, tokens and more.
- Moving through blocks. The arrows step one block back or forward and LIVE goes back to the newest. FEES colours the parcels by the fee they paid, the eye lets you see inside the cube, and the last button opens it up in layers.
- The house. Walks you into the block.
- Tools. Flip back through blocks by itself, save a picture, turn the sound on or off, and download the code.
- The live feed. Blocks as they're found, new inscriptions, and transactions joining the next block. FEED shows or hides it.
Walking the halls
Press the house at the top left and you walk into the block. A hall is a long room with shelves of parcels down both sides, sorted by kind: inscriptions, tokens and transactions each have their own cases, with a sign over each one. A door at the far end leads on to the next blocks.
| To | On a computer | On a phone |
|---|---|---|
| Walk | W A S D or the arrow keys, Shift to run | The pad |
| Look around | Click the room, then move the mouse. Esc lets go of the mouse. | Drag |
| Pick up a parcel | Click it | Tap it |
| Put it back | Click the room or press Esc | Tap the room or Close |
| Search and fast travel | T | The tablet button |
| Leave the hall | The house | The house |
How many blocks in a hall
Dogecoin blocks are small: lately about 17 to 22 transactions each. So Doge Cube puts several blocks in one hall: 20, 10, 5, 2 or 1. As you walk in, it looks at the 100 blocks around where you're going and picks the most blocks that keep the hall to about 500 parcels.
| Where you go | Transactions a block, on average | Blocks in a hall |
|---|---|---|
| Now, November 2026 | about 17 | 20 |
| The first Doginal, block 4,609,723 | about 15 | 20 |
| Block 4,980,000, November 2023 | about 836 | 1 |
Checked on the live portal on 12 November 2026: walking into a 20-block hall (blocks 6,453,860 to 6,453,879, 280 transactions) took 17.4 seconds, with every parcel's real size and fee.
Picking up a parcel
Click a parcel to pick it up, or tap it on a phone. A card shows what it is: the block it's in, the fee it paid, its size, the DOGE it moved, and where that DOGE came from and went.
- V (or View big) opens it up full size: an inscription's picture, text or web page, or a map of where a payment's DOGE went.
- C puts it on show in the middle of the common room.
- Click the room or press Esc to put it back on its shelf.
- T opens the tablet. Search for a block, an inscription number like #1000 or a dogemap like 300.dogemap, and fast travel to the newest block, the very first block or the common room.
The common room
Walk through the door past the newest block, or fast travel there from the tablet, and you're in the common room. It's the same lounge as Block Cube's, retold with Dogecoin's story.
- The Forum, with a big screen that shows live blocks and keeps score, or plays a YouTube link your crew picks.
- Block Beats, the jukebox. Pick a tune and your whole crew hears it.
- A half-played chess game in Doge gold and cream. Press E to sit down.
- Two glass cases. One holds a bobsled, for the Jamaican team that Dogecoin fans helped send to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi with more than $30,000 worth of Dogecoin. The other holds a gold Ð, Dogecoin's sign.
- Eight pillars for big days in Dogecoin's history: the first block, the first payment (block 168), the reward changes at blocks 100,000, 145,000 and 600,000, merged mining from block 371,337, the first Doginal (block 4,609,723) and the first dune in the explorer's list (block 5,095,478).
- A neon sign that reads 10,000 A BLOCK. Since block 600,000, every Dogecoin block has made exactly 10,000 new DOGE. A ticker ends with Dogecoin's motto, Do Only Good Everyday.
- New pictures. Every picture that showed a ₿ or Bitcoin's bitmaps was drawn again for Doge Cube: a gold Ð, two shibas in a bear and a bull market, a shiba showing off a .dogemap, a stained-glass window and more. The shiba is drawn from scratch, not the famous Doge photo, which belongs to its owner.
Playing together
- On the portal, press Play Together on the Doge Cube card.
- Give your runner a name and pick one of the four Node Runners, Ghost, Spark, Relay and Cipher, with their colours and skin.
- Start a crew and share its code, join one with a code, step into the open hall with whoever's around, or pick a crew from the crew list. Friends lets you add people and see when they're on. You can also explore alone.
- Walk in. Up to six runners walk the halls together. Chat, or talk with an open mic or push to talk. Click a crewmate's card to go straight to them.
There's no game server and no sign-up. The page finds your crew through public Nostr relays, then links your browsers straight to each other.
On a computer, when you're at the cube itself, the crew's bar steps aside so it doesn't cover the block tiles. The people button under the house brings it back.
Getting the code
All of Doge Cube is one HTML file, and the download button inside it gives you a copy.
- Open Doge Cube on a computer. Phones don't have the download button.
- Press the download button, the </> at the top right.
- Pick Whole app (the cube, the block halls and the common room) or Common room only.
- Open the file in any browser. It runs on its own and only needs the internet to read the blocks.
The play-together page is its own file, doge-cube-together.html, which holds the cube inside it. It lives on the portal next to the cube. YouTube on the big screen needs the cube opened from the portal online; from a downloaded file it won't play.
Where the data comes from
Doge Cube has no server. Your own browser asks public Dogecoin data sites for what's on screen, and nothing else. Each site gets a pause between asks, anything already read is kept instead of asked again, and a site that says slow down gets a rest.
| Site | What Doge Cube gets from it | How often it asks |
|---|---|---|
| The Doginals Explorer | Blocks, transactions, inscriptions and their files, DRC-20 tokens, dunes, dogemaps and names | Under the explorer's free limit of 300 units a minute, in one queue where whatever you're waiting on goes first |
| Bitcore, from BitPay | Every transaction's size and fee for a whole block in one ask, the newest block, and checks | At most once every 0.15 seconds |
| BlockCypher | Back-up blocks, an address's past transactions, and the very first block's transaction | At most once every 1.5 seconds, inside its free plan |
| 3xpl | The newest block, as a last word and a third checker | At most once every 20 seconds |
| Blockchair | Back-up only | Rarely: its free use is tiny |
| Doggy Market | A second home for inscription files | Only when a file can't come from the explorer |
The big screen in the common room keeps score. It checks every new block against a second explorer (BlockCypher, then Bitcore, then 3xpl) and counts how many of the block's inscriptions it saw waiting before the block was found.
What could be better
Doge Cube does nearly everything Block Cube does. These are the gaps: what's missing, the proof, and what would fix it. Everything marked Checked was measured from the portal's own page on 11 and 12 November 2026.
Data that isn't out there
Doginals data has one home.
Inscriptions, tokens, dogemaps and names all come from The Doginals Explorer. If it goes down, those parts go quiet. Blocks are better off: BlockCypher and Blockchair can still send them, Bitcore fills in their sizes and fees, and Bitcore and 3xpl still know the newest block.
Checked: every other Doginals site tried (doginals.com, dogeord.io, the wonky-ord sites, dogelabs.net, Doggy Market's API and ordinalswallet.com) either blocks other web pages or didn't answer. Paid services need a key, and a key can't be kept secret inside a web page.
What would fix it: a second public Doginals indexer with an open API. The explorer's indexers are open source, so anyone could run one.
No raw blocks.
No free public site gives a web page a Dogecoin block's raw bytes. Without them, dune mints and moves, OP_RETURN messages, the pieces of a file and the miner's tag can't be read for every block. Doge Cube reads them one transaction at a time, when you ask, from BlockCypher.
Checked: the explorer's transaction answers carry no scripts, and BlockCypher's free plan allows 3 asks a second and 100 an hour.
What would fix it: an open raw-block API for Dogecoin, like the ones Bitcoin has.
An address's history comes from one place.
The explorer lists what an address holds, not what it did. BlockCypher is the only open source for an address's transactions, so the tablet asks it once per address.
Checked: the same free plan, 100 asks an hour.
Doginals details
Big halls sort payments roughly.
The explorer's block list counts each transaction's inputs and outputs but doesn't say what kind of addresses they use, and reading a transaction on its own costs 2 of the 300 units a minute. So in a hall of many blocks, ordinary payments show as regular until you pick one up. Sizes and fees are exact, because Bitcore gives a whole block's in one ask.
Checked: a full block (4,980,000, with 2,407 transactions) came back whole from Bitcore in one ask, in 315 milliseconds.
Collections can't be opened from a parcel.
The explorer lists 306 collections, but an inscription's record doesn't say which one it belongs to. You find collections by name on the tablet instead.
No children and no cursed inscriptions.
The explorer's inscription record has no parent, child or curse fields, so these two kinds of parcel from Block Cube don't exist here.
Checked: the record's fields are id, satpoint, offset, satoshis, content type, address, number, genesis height and time, and kinds.
Following coins back starts with the file.
A Doginal is written across a chain of transactions, about 1.5 KB each, and its ID is the first one. So the first steps back along the tether are the file being written, not trades. A marker on those steps would make it clearer.
The first block's transaction is missing.
The explorer has no copy of block 0's own transaction, a quirk Dogecoin kept from Bitcoin's code. Doge Cube reads it from BlockCypher instead: 88 DOGE to an address that has since been sent 13 small birthday gifts, none of them ever moved.
Checked: the explorer answers "No such mempool or blockchain transaction", and BlockCypher lists 14 transactions for that address.
Dogecoin being Dogecoin
Nothing to forecast.
Nearly every Dogecoin transaction pays the usual 0.01 DOGE per kB, and blocks are about 1% full, so Block Cube's fee forecast has nothing to do here. Fee weather became block weather (how busy each block was), and the big screen keeps score by checking blocks against a second explorer instead.
No rare koinu.
Dogecoin's first blocks paid random rewards, and none of the data sites Doge Cube can use gives koinu numbers (koinu are Dogecoin's smallest units), so there's no rare-sats board.
Token balances rest on one indexer.
DRC-20 has no shared referee like ordinals.com on Bitcoin, so balances are whatever the explorer's indexer says.
Doge Cube and Block Cube
| What | Block Cube | Doge Cube |
|---|---|---|
| Chain | Bitcoin | Dogecoin |
| A new block | About every 10 minutes | About every minute |
| A hall holds | One block | 1 to 20 blocks, picked as you walk in |
| Data sites | 14, plus reading raw blocks from ordinals.com | 6 |
| What it shows from the chain | Inscriptions, runes, BRC-20, stamps, alkanes, atomicals, CAT-21, rare sats and bitmaps | Inscriptions, DRC-20, dunes, dogemaps and names |
| Fees | A fee forecast that keeps score | Block weather, and blocks checked against a second explorer |
| Common room | Bitcoin's story | Dogecoin's story, with new pictures |
| Block Paint | Through the warehouse shutter | Not here: the shutter stays shut |
Sources
- Dogecoin's block rewards: Dogecoin Core's FAQ.
- Dogecoin's motto: Dogecoin's trademarks page.
- The Sochi bobsled: PBS NewsHour, 21 January 2014, and Jamaica at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Wikipedia.
- Doginals: the Doginals repository.
- The Doginals Explorer: thedoginalsexplorer.com, and its open-source indexers.
- Bitcore's API: bitcore-node's API documentation.
- BlockCypher's free plan: BlockCypher's pricing page.
- 3xpl's sandbox, which needs no key but is "rate limited, uptime is not guaranteed": 3xpl's JSON API page.
- Everything marked Checked, and every number about how Doge Cube runs, was measured from the portal's own page on 11 and 12 November 2026.