DogeCash is a community-run digital currency founded in 2018 on the simple premise of creating a limited-supply, environmentally sustainable coin that is accessible to consumers (as a form of payment), everyday investors (as a store of value), and philanthropists (as a vehicle for giving.)

Like Dogecoin, an earlier cryptocurrency based on the popular Shiba Inu internet meme, DogeCash values community as well as charity. DogeCash differs from Dogecoin because of its proof-of-stake (POS) consensus protocol, a maximum supply of 210 million coins, privacy features, and its system of governance.

DogeCash developers used PIVX, a decentralized, MIT licensed, open-source blockchain project, as the codebase for DOGEC. Like PIVX, DOGEC is a POS/masternode coin that rewards users for holding coins (staking) and running masternodes (full nodes that are always online and help secure the network.)

In contrast to proof-of-work coins like Bitcoin (that use mining rather than staking for consensus), DogeCash uses little to no energy to maintain its blockchain and mint new coins.