DrDoge and the HEX God candle initiative
Keep trying new ideas
TL;DR
- No DrDoge staking
- 1 year HEX reward for Merged Folding
- That’s it
Nobody will read this
DrDoge started as a memecoin, but from day one the project had a real direction. Reward Folding@home and make crypto useful in a never before seen way. Build something weird, simple, and honest on PulseChain.
One year later, we are still here, still folding, still building, and still trying new things. This will be a new never before seen idea. (again)
Our main real relevant performance metric:
- 1 year overall Folding@Home points: 206.53 Billion
- 1 year average Folding@Home PPD: 562.75 Million
We can safely say that for a whole year, the community had around $40,000-$60,000 worth of GPUs doing science with us every single day.
That is already insane for a small market cap memecoin, and we want to thank everyone who has been folding with us. We have achieved many things, but this article is not going to be a long list of everything DrDoge has done. We tried many new things. Some worked, some did not, and some might only work later.
The God candle can come at any time.
On PulseChain, everyone knows that. The “God Candle” Initiative is our way of celebrating the first year without pretending the market is something it is not.
Education: What is Folding@Home?
Folding@Home is a global distributed computing network where your GPU and CPU simulate protein folding for real scientific research. Things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and drug development.
In other words:
Your hardware can either farm meaningless numbers or help solve real biological problems…
We’re still crypto with funny jpgs, but jokes aside, we’re actually trying to help cure cancer.
What is Merged Folding?
Merged Folding is one of the coolest thing built by DrDoge. The idea is simple:
- You run Folding@home.
- With Folding@Home you simulate proven useful protein folding simulations using your GPU
- DrDoge rewards your useful work with many community tokens for free
It is not mining. It is not wasting GPU power on some random garbage proof of work (POW) chain. It is using hardware for something useful, while still giving crypto people a reason to participate.
Almost any community or token can be listed for Merged Folding on PulseChain with DrDoge, and anyone can donate to the public donation addresses to help fund science. It is fully community driven.
Maybe lambo, maybe not. But useful.
The original DrDoge staking plan
DrDoge is now 1 year old on PulseChain, and originally this was the time when our first staking round was supposed to go live.
The original tokenomics included yearly staking rewards:
Staking: Every crypto project needs some fun. DrDoge offers three yearly rounds of 500,000 DrDoge each, locked for a year at a time. Anyone can stake, and the rules never change. This is a way to keep the community involved, reward patience, and lock up supply for predictable periods. There are no secret codes, no pyramids, just old fashioned staking with clear, honest rewards.
The planned rounds were simple:
- Initial: 500,000 DrDoge locked in a 1 year staking contract where anybody can stake.
- 1st year: 500,000 DrDoge locked in a 1 year staking contract where anybody can stake.
- 2nd year: 500,000 DrDoge locked in a 1 year staking contract where anybody can stake.
That was the plan, but plans should also make sense in the real world.
Why we are adapting
PulseChain just had 11 red monthly candles in a row.
The market is tired, sentiment is low, and timing matters. In a different environment, launching staking would make sense. It was part of the original DrDoge design for a reason.
But right now, it would mostly reward a small number of existing larger holders, while doing very little for growth, onboarding, Folding@home, or the broader PulseChain community.
There is nothing wrong with staking itself. We still like the idea. We just do not think this is the right time for it.
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So instead of blindly executing something because every crypto project is “supposed” to have staking, we decided to redirect that allocation into something more useful, more community-focused, and honestly, maybe more fun.
The new idea
Instead of launching the first yearly staking round, DrDoge used the 500,000 DrDoge token allocation like this:
- 350,000 DrDoge burned.
- 150,000 DrDoge sold and bought $HEX with it.
The HEX is donated into a full 1 year Merged Folding reward pool
- 565,000 HEX
- Daily reward pool 1,555 HEX
This might look like we are suddenly dumping tokens, but realistically, because of the burn the overall “inflation” from this single tokenomics is around 70% lower.
That means the unused staking allocation becomes something that can support Folding@home, support PulseChain communities, and create a new narrative around the most famous PulseChain token called HEX
The most important part is that the rewards are unit based, not dollar based. So what happens if the PulseChain God candle becomes real? What happens if HEX or PLS randomly does something insane? What happens if one of them does a 100x while the reward wallet is still active?
Then Folding@home rewards could suddenly become very attractive compared to garbage PoW GPU mining.
We invented the useful God candle waiting room @RichardHeartWin
You can check all the current Merged Folding rewards here:
https://drdoge.net/things/very-proven-science
This is not about promises
This is not a price prediction. Nobody knows what HEX, DrDoge, or any listed merged folding token will do, and thats the beauty of it. Crypto can go up, down, sideways, make you rich, or make everyone look stupid at the same time.
This initiative is not based on promising profit. It is based on creating a reward pool that becomes more interesting if the PulseChain ecosystem performs well and all we do is uniting the community for a greater purpose.
If nothing happens, the system still works. If something crazy happens, the system becomes a lot more interesting. If the God candle only comes after years, and you have a random $1,000 in your wallet by then, you will have delayed gratification.
The smartest dumb idea ever seen.
Other Merged Folding listed tokens
Our further plan alongside the God Candle Initiative, is to keep trying to list PulseChain tokens with long-term rewards.
This helps build a community that is not just simple trading PvP, but encourages people to participate in Folding@Home.
This way, you become useful, whether you want to or not.
- Built-in science marketing potential for listed tokens.
- Built-in diversification for price speculation.
- Built-in community building effort.
- Built-in token rotating possibility.
- Built-in fun HODL gamble.
If you have a friend with a gaming PC or someone who has ever mined some garbage PoW chain, send them the DrDoge project. We can onboard them to PulseChain.
How to earn DrDoge and others with F@H
Why you should give this a chance.
- Worst case, you spend a few dollars on electricity, and it still goes toward real science. Honest earning, honest work.
- Best case, you discover the best project that isn’t even promising you lambos, yet still has the potential to give you one.
- Most crypto people have trusted far worse JPGs on the internet doing absolutely nothing.
We have a really simple guide on our website and also as an X article.
https://drdoge.net/smart-pups-do-science
If your folding name is DrDoge_YourPulseChainAddress you will have everything setup to fully participate and earn all the listed tokens.
No wallet connection. No signing. No approvals. No smart contract interaction. You can run F@H on a dedicated rig under a VPN. You can stay fully pseudonymous. You can treat it like traditional mining except this time your hardware is doing something that actually matters. Science.
Be useful! 🧬
PulseChain will win 🚀
Useful links & resources:
DrDoge Website:
https://drdoge.net
Folding@Home Website
https://foldingathome.org/
How to earn DrDoge with Folding@Home:
https://drdoge.net/smart-pups-do-science
DrDoge profit calculator:
https://drdoge.net/things/scientific-bark-ulator
DrDoge Audit:
https://hashlock.com/audits/drdoge
DrDoge smart contract address: 0x9d95DFBB1aBb8F57abc20FDE4F786BB1Db52ad71
DrDoge forever locked pool address for DEX trading:
0x8f5e13be76cd74b9c7330d00a5598616536b7047
https://dexscreener.com/pulsechain/0x8f5e13be76cd74b9c7330d00a5598616536b7047
DrDoge Twitter/X:
https://x.com/DrDoge_PLS
DrDoge Discord:
https://discord.com/invite/etQckZgu74
Important: The DrDoge project exists only on PulseChain. If you find another token with the same name on a different chain, it’s a different project.
