What is $DOG (DOG.GO.TO.THE.MOON)?
Written by the volunteers who run DogSwap. Last updated 2026-09-15. Checked against the chain, not against a price.
$DOG is a rune: a token that lives inside ordinary Bitcoin transactions, on Bitcoin itself, with no sidechain, no smart contract and no wrapped anything. Its full name is DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON and its Rune ID is 840000:3. This page explains what those words mean, where the coin actually sits, and how to tell the real one from the copies.
A rune, in one paragraph
Runes is a way of writing fungible tokens onto Bitcoin. It went live in block 840,000, the block of the fourth halving on 20 April 2024. A rune has no contract and no separate ledger: its balances are attached to the same unspent outputs (UTXOs) that hold bitcoin, and a transfer is a small note, called a runestone, placed in an OP_RETURN output of a normal Bitcoin transaction. Bitcoin nodes carry the transaction like any other; an indexer such as ord reads the notes and keeps the balances. Move the UTXO and you move the rune. The security is Bitcoin's own, because there is nothing else underneath.
What the name and the number say
- DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON is the etched name. The bullets are part of it; runes use them as spacers, and the wallet that shows them is reading the chain correctly.
- 840000:3 is the Rune ID, and it is the only identifier that cannot be faked. It means the rune was etched in block 840,000, in the fourth transaction of that block (index 3, counting from zero). Any rune with a different ID is a different rune, whatever it calls itself.
- Divisibility 5: one $DOG splits into 100,000 units, the way one bitcoin splits into 100,000,000 sats. Balances in a wallet show five decimals for this reason.
- Symbol 🐕, the glyph the etching carries.
The supply is fixed, and it was never sold
The etching created the entire supply at once: 100,000,000,000 $DOG, 100 percent premined, with no mint ever opened. Nobody can create more. The whole supply existed on day one and it was given away rather than sold: it went, free, to the holders of the Runestone inscription, an ordinals project that had spread across more than a hundred thousand wallets before the halving. No rune has ever started in more wallets, and that start is why $DOG has no team allocation, no vesting schedule and no treasury of unreleased coins. What exists is what circulates. The dated record of how that happened is its own page: the rules were argued in public in February 2024, weeks before there was a coin.
Where your $DOG actually sits
In a Bitcoin wallet that understands runes, on a taproot address (it starts with bc1p). UniSat, Xverse and OKX Wallet all do this. Xverse shows two addresses for one wallet: a payment address (bc1q) that holds spendable sats for fees, and an ordinals address (bc1p) that holds the runes. UniSat and OKX use one taproot address for both jobs. Either way, keep spendable sats beside your $DOG. A wallet holding only $DOG and dust cannot pay the fee to move it, which is where the message "not enough UTXOs" comes from.
There is no account anywhere. Your $DOG is a UTXO your keys control, and a swap is a Bitcoin transaction that spends it. How that transaction is built, read and signed is written out in how a Runes swap settles.
Bridged DOG is a different asset
A token called DOG also exists on Solana. It is not the rune. It is a bridged claim minted by a bridge operator (RuneMine's MineBridge) against runes the bridge holds, so its risk is the bridge's custody, not Bitcoin's. It has its own mint address, its own holders and its own price. DogSwap never shows the two on one line and does not trade the Solana token at all. Several other Solana tokens use the DOG name and some imitate our branding; none of them is the rune. The rune is on Bitcoin, and only there. The longer version of this is on disclosures.
Who is behind it
Nobody owns $DOG. It has a community, Dog of Bitcoin, that runs volunteer infrastructure: DOG Mode, a Bitcoin node build that announces itself to other DOG nodes and can be found through a public DNS seed, and this site, a self-custodial front end that relays swaps to the venue and never holds a key. The complete list of channels that are really us is on verified channels; anything else claiming to be $DOG is not.
Getting some, and what to expect
You can swap $DOG for Bitcoin, or Bitcoin for $DOG, on this site: connect a wallet, read the exact transaction before you sign, sign in your own wallet, and wait for a block. The market behind $DOG on Bitcoin is thin, so every quote is priced for your exact size, with everything the venue charges already inside what you receive. Nothing here predicts a price or promises anything a market can take away.
Questions
Is $DOG a memecoin?
It is a rune named after a dog, launched by giveaway with no team and no roadmap, so yes, in the honest sense of the word. What separates it from most is where it lives: on Bitcoin's base layer, in ordinary transactions, with a supply nobody can change.
How do I check a rune is really 840000:3?
Open the rune in your wallet or on a public ord explorer and read the Rune ID, not the name. Names can be copied with a bullet moved or a letter swapped; the block and index cannot.
Can $DOG be sent to a regular bitcoin address?
Only to a wallet that understands runes, and in practice to a taproot address. Sending a rune UTXO to an exchange or a plain wallet that does not index runes can lose it: the receiver spends the UTXO as ordinary sats and the rune note is burned with it.