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Summary

Dogecoin (DOGE) is a cryptocurrency created in December 2013 by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer as a deliberate parody of Bitcoin. It has grown to a top-10 cryptocurrency by market cap (~$17B). While the protocol itself has no documented exploits, Dogecoin carries risks from Elon Musk's outsized price influence (an $258B class action was filed and dismissed), significant whale concentration (149 wallets hold ~108.5B DOGE), and documented illicit use including PlusToken seizures and darknet market acceptance.

Connected Entities

4 entities · 60 linked investigations
Organizations
□Shiba Inu (SHIB)31□PlusToken4
Tokens
♦Dogecoin♦Bitcoin62
Relationships
  • Dogecoin→mentioned with→Shiba Inu (SHIB)(80%)
  • Shiba Inu (SHIB)→mentioned with→Dogecoin(65%)
  • PlusToken→mentioned with→Bitcoin(70%)
  • Shiba Inu (SHIB)→mentioned with→Bitcoin(70%)
  • Dogecoin→mentioned with→Bitcoin(65%)
  • Dogecoin→mentioned with→PlusToken(65%)
Also appears in
Hedera·55SafePal·42Kevin Rose·57Pond0x·18Swiss Bitcoin Pay·42BitMEX (2026 Class Action — Insider Trading and Liquidation Fraud)·10Ruslan Igorevich Tkachuk·2TraderTraitor / UNC4899·0Triple-A Treasury Hack (July 2026)·22Nobitex June 2025 Hack (Predatory Sparrow)·10+ 50 more

Connected Through

4 shared actors · 501 investigations

Distinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.

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Timeline(9 events)

6 December 2013

Dogecoin created by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer

wikipedia.org

19 January 2014

Dogecoin community fundraises for Jamaican bobsled team

wikipedia.org

2015

Co-founder Jackson Palmer leaves the project

cnbc.com

8 May 2021

Musk SNL appearance causes 35% DOGE price crash

coindesk.com

14 July 2021

Palmer calls crypto a 'Ponzi scheme' and Musk a 'grifter'

cnbc.com

June 2022

$258B class action filed against Musk/Tesla over DOGE manipulation

dailyhodl.com

31 August 2024

Judge Hellerstein dismisses DOGE lawsuit with prejudice

dailyhodl.com

18 November 2024

Plaintiffs withdraw appeal of DOGE lawsuit

bakermckenzie.com

27 February 2025

SEC staff declares memecoins are not securities

winston.com
Provenance & Audit Trail
Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain9 Wayback Archivessrc:claude-code-investigator

Decision Log

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 events). 9 of 10 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

full audit log →version history →

model: claude-code-investigator

generated: 5/12/2026, 9:59:36 PM

last updated: 7/25/2026, 1:29:12 PM

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