A sidecar Omni-style meta-layer for Dogecoin-family chains.
DogecoinArcade reads blocks from an unmodified node and maintains token, NFT and exchange state in its own database. It is not a fork of the node, and it never holds private keys — transactions are funded and signed by the node's own wallet.
The protocol is a descendant of the Omni Layer, whose wire format has run on Bitcoin since 2013. Payload encoding is byte-identical to Omni Core's, verified against that project's own published test vectors.
Pepecoin is a Dogecoin fork, and every constant this protocol depends on is the same in both — the same values at the same source lines.
| Constant | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
MAX_OP_RETURN_RELAY | 83 | script/standard.h:30 |
DEFAULT_PERMIT_BAREMULTISIG | true | validation.h:143 |
| x-of-3 bare multisig standard | yes | policy/policy.cpp:41 |
RECOMMENDED_MIN_TX_FEE | COIN/100 | policy/policy.h:23 |
| hard dust limit | DUST/10 | policy/policy.h:81 |
| block spacing | 60 s | chainparams.cpp |
Only chain identity differs — address versions and ports — and those live in configuration as data, not code.
Two carriers, both standard on mainnet:
| Carrier | Bytes per transaction |
|---|---|
Class C — OP_RETURN | 72 |
| Class B — bare multisig | 7,646 |
Class B carries just over a hundred times more per transaction, and because each multisig output embeds the sender's own redeeming key, the dust it uses stays spendable by the sender rather than being burned.
One installer, one file, standard library only — it runs on a machine that has nothing but Python 3.10 or newer. It downloads Pepecoin Core (or Dogecoin Core, it asks which), verifies its SHA-256 against two independent sources and checks its GPG signature, writes both node configs, registers services, installs the application and opens your browser. Any verification failure stops the install.
curl -O https://dogecoinarcade.com/install.py
python3 install.pyBinaries go in ~/.local/bin, which is already
on PATH on most distributions. Nodes and the web interface are registered as
systemd user services, so they start when you log in.
Nothing outside your home directory is touched and it never asks for
administrator rights.
curl -O https://dogecoinarcade.com/install.py
python3 install.pyIf python3 is missing, macOS will offer to
install the Command Line Tools — accept, then run it again. Services
are registered as launchd agents. Note that the macOS
Pepecoin release contains no headless daemon, only the Qt wallet,
so each node opens a window; it serves the same RPC interface, so the
application works either way.
curl.exe -O https://dogecoinarcade.com/install.py
py install.pyRun it in PowerShell. py rather than
python: the launcher is on your PATH whether or not you ticked
“Add python.exe to PATH”, which is the box everybody misses.
Install Python from python.org — the one from the
Microsoft Store is a stub that opens the Store instead of running
anything, and if python install.py opened the Store, that is
what happened. If PowerShell cannot find curl.exe either, use
Invoke-WebRequest https://dogecoinarcade.com/install.py -OutFile install.py.
Files go in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\DogecoinArcade, and the installer puts its
commands on your PATH, so open a new terminal before
running dogecoinarcade. Windows has no
systemd, so the nodes are not registered to start on their own
— you launch them yourself each time. That is the one real gap on
Windows and it is listed below.
This is a script that downloads software from the internet and runs it on
your machine. You should be able to see what it intends to touch before you
let it. Add --dry-run and it prints every step and changes
nothing — no downloads, no files, no services:
python3 install.py --dry-runEvery line begins with “would”. The installer asks which chain you
want — Pepecoin, Dogecoin, or both — unless you tell it with
--coin.
Updating touches only the code. Never your wallet, your
messages, your address book or your chain data. It also brings your node
service definitions up to date and puts any command an older installation is
missing on your PATH, such as arcade-rpc for bots.
dogecoinarcade-updateIf that is not found, your bin directory is not on PATH.
Use the full path instead:
~/.local/bin/dogecoinarcade-update
dogecoinarcade-updateOr the full path:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\DogecoinArcade\bin\dogecoinarcade-update.cmd
dogecoinarcade-update --dry-run
dogecoinarcade-update --check--check only reports whether a newer version
exists and changes nothing. --dry-run prints every step it
would take.
No module named 'arcade'The environment is there and the application is not. pip
removes the old version before it unpacks the new one, so an install or an
update that fails in between leaves exactly that — and from there every
command is a traceback, the updater included, because it lives inside the
package it would have reinstalled.
Current installations repair themselves: the commands reinstall from
~/.dogecoinarcade/src before they run. An installation that is
already in this state has nothing on it that knows how, so run the installer
again. It keeps your wallet, your messages and your chain data, and
--skip-core tells it to leave the node alone:
curl -O https://dogecoinarcade.com/install.py
python3 install.py --skip-corecurl.exe -O https://dogecoinarcade.com/install.py
py install.py --skip-corewallet.dat restores your coins and
your conversations together. The Backup page in the application will save one
for you, print your private keys, or restore from a copy.
Stated plainly. An installer that half-works silently is worse than one that tells you it cannot.
| Platform | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Linux x86_64 | Tested | Verified end to end, including signature checking. |
| Linux ARM64 (aarch64) | Tested | Installed and updated repeatedly on an aarch64 machine, including messaging end to end against an x86_64 node. ARMv7 remains untested. |
| Windows x64 | Untested | Installs, but does not register services — Windows has no systemd, so the nodes will not start on their own yet. |
| macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon) | Untested | Mounts the .dmg, installs Pepecoin-Qt.app and
registers launchd agents. Note that the macOS release contains
no headless daemon — only the Qt wallet — so each
node opens a window. Pepecoin-Qt serves the same RPC interface, so the
application works either way. |
sha256sum install.py should give
70e4e7c66f6eb2921a676109079b55c2d87c4afc7550b3743f243069fc703b16
The repository is served directly from this domain.
git clone https://dogecoinarcade.com/repoPython 3.12, pinned dependencies, 181 tests. Run them with
pytest — they spin up a throwaway regtest node in a temporary
directory and never touch mainnet data.
The full design record is published: every decision, why it was taken, and what it invalidated — including the corrections. Every factual claim about node behaviour cites a source file and line.
Found something broken? Several platforms above are marked untested, and reports are how they stop being untested.