Spam Mitigation and Chain Health

Dogenals protocols are designed to minimize spam and ensure sustainable adoption on Dogecoin. This document outlines anti-spam measures, economic friction, and indexer responsibilities for maintaining chain health.

Economic Friction

Attention Fees (DogeTag Offers)

• Purpose: Discourage low-value offers that clutter indexers and wallets.
• Mechanism: offer_fee in ÐMP offers requires a minimum DOGE amount paid to the marketplace.
• Benefit: Ensures offers have economic commitment, reducing noise.

Platform Fees

• Purpose: Fund marketplace operations and discourage frivolous listings.
• Mechanism: Optional platform_fee in ÐMP settles, deducted from sale proceeds.
• Benefit: Aligns incentives; marketplaces can subsidize fees or pass to users.

Royalty Enforcement

• Purpose: Prevent free-riding on creator value.
• Mechanism: royalty_bps in collections enforces minimum payments on resales.
• Benefit: Creators receive fair share, reducing incentive for spam collections.

Size Limits

Inscription Soft Limits

• DMP: 4 KB soft limit per inscription (warns but allows larger).
• Reason: Prevents bloating the chain with oversized JSON.
• Mitigation: Hybrid design (heavy data in inscriptions, lightweight pings in OP_RETURN).

OP_RETURN Hard Limits

• Dogecoin: 80 bytes maximum for OP_RETURN data.
• Affected Protocols: Universal DogeTokens, DogeTag, ÐWhisper, Ðunes.
• Mitigation: Compact JSON, base64 encoding for binary data, or use inscriptions for complex payloads.

Rate Limiting and Validation

Indexer Responsibilities

• Duplicate Prevention: Enforce first-deploy-wins for DogeTokens and collection slugs.
• Balance Checks: Verify sufficient funds before allowing transfers/mints.
• Provenance Gaps: Flag ownership changes without valid intents.
• Reorg Handling: Roll back state on chain reorganizations.

Wallet UX Recommendations

• Spam Filtering: Hide low-value offers below attention thresholds.
• Notification Controls: Allow users to mute collections or addresses.
• Confirmation Prompts: Warn on high-fee operations or unverified collections.

Regulatory Considerations

• AML/KYC: Protocols do not enforce; marketplaces may choose to.
• Securities Laws: Metadata is descriptive, not legal title. RWA attestations are claims, not guarantees.
• Permanent Records: Encrypted messages and inscriptions are forever; advise users accordingly.

Monitoring and Adaptation

• Metrics: Track inscription volume, failed validations, and fee adoption.
• Updates: Protocols may add friction (e.g., higher minimum fees) if spam increases.
• Community Governance: ÐMP collections can vote on spam policies.

By prioritizing economic alignment and validation rigor, Dogenals aims to keep Dogecoin’s “do only good everyday” spirit intact while enabling rich tokenization and marketplaces.