Over 2 million DOGE sit trapped in limbo as Dogechain keeps printing blocks past its final deadline
Dogechain’s announced Aug. 8, 12:00 UTC shutdown was only partial. The chain kept producing blocks after the deadline, and the official RPC and explorer still showed recent block activity. The project-run bridge page also remained online and displayed deposit/withdraw controls, but no successful post-cutoff withdrawal was shown, so recoverability of assets remains unclear. Dogechain had warned in July that funds left on the chain could become inaccessible or permanently lost. QuickSwap also directed users to move assets before shutdown; after noon, the Dogechain-specific route redirected to QuickSwap on Polygon instead of providing Dogechain access. Overall, block production continued, but key user-facing services were degraded or redirected, and it is still unknown whether the bridge can complete withdrawals or how much value is stranded.
