{"id":11696,"date":"2026-08-10T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:20:08","slug":"over-2-million-doge-sit-trapped-in-limbo-as-dogechain-keeps-printing-blocks-past-its-final-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=11696","title":{"rendered":"Over 2 million DOGE sit trapped in limbo as Dogechain keeps printing blocks past its final deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dogechain, a separate Ethereum-compatible network from the Dogecoin blockchain, kept producing blocks after its announced 12:00 UTC shutdown on Aug. 8. Its project-run bridge page also remained online, while a Dogechain-specific QuickSwap route continued sending users to Polygon.<\/p>\n

Dogechain announced the cutoff in July and warned that assets remaining on the chain might become inaccessible or permanently lost. The split in service availability after noon leaves the recovery path for those assets unresolved.<\/p>\n

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Blocks continued after noon<\/h2>\n

The official RPC, the endpoint apps use to communicate with the network, returned block 62,578,500 immediately before noon and block 62,578,578 less than two minutes after the deadline. The latter carried a 12:01:52 UTC timestamp.<\/p>\n

The official explorer remained available minutes later and showed the chain at block 62,578,630, with recent blocks attributed to multiple miner addresses. That activity showed the network had not stopped producing blocks immediately after the cutoff, though it did not show whether all project-operated services still worked.<\/p>\n

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The official bridge interface was also visible after noon, with deposit and withdrawal controls. Its dashboard displayed 2,081,715.83 DOGE as \u201cCurrent DOGE on Chain.\u201d No successful post-cutoff withdrawal was demonstrated, however, and the dashboard total does not identify which balances are recoverable or controlled by users. It therefore cannot be treated as an estimate of stranded funds.<\/p>\n

Dogechain\u2019s bridge documentation describes an administrator-mediated process involving signatures and a service that executes transfers. Continued block production and a visible form do not prove that those operational components can still return DOGE. A holder\u2019s ability to recover funds therefore depends on more than validators continuing to add blocks to the chain.<\/p>\n

QuickSwap had warned users to withdraw assets and liquidity positions before the shutdown. Before and after noon, its Dogechain-specific route resolved to QuickSwap on Polygon, chain ID 137. The ordinary QuickSwap interface for Dogechain swaps and liquidity management remained unavailable through that route.<\/p>\n

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QuickSwap\u2019s original Dogechain interface announcement said it supported trading, liquidity provision, and yield farms. Redirecting the chain-specific route to Polygon removes that ordinary interface for users trying to manage remaining Dogechain positions.<\/p>\n

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The immediate result was a partial operational sunset: block production, explorer access, and the bridge page persisted, while the tested QuickSwap route did not provide Dogechain access. Whether the bridge can still complete withdrawals and how much value is actually stranded remain unknown. Permanent loss is still Dogechain\u2019s warning, not a demonstrated outcome.<\/p>\n

As of press time, the explorer web page now fails to load.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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