Dogecoin Team Is Working To Enable Offline Transactions For DOGE
Dogecoin Foundation is working on a new development using RadioDoge technology combined with the Starlink satellite network that would enable DOGE transactions without using the Internet.
While there is still a long way to go, the groundwork had been laid for future experiments, such as connecting RadioDoge to the Dogecoin testnet through Starlink’s technological support.
Timothy Stebbing, Product Lead at the Dogecoin Foundation, and Michi Lumin, Principal Engineer at the Foundation, have teamed up to work on a new communication network that would allow users to make DOGE transactions offline. In order to do so, they would need support from the Starlink satellite network created and owned by Dogecoin advocate, Elon Musk.
According to the article written by Stebbing and Lumin, the key technologies to the experiment are RadioDoge, a “cheap and reliable Radio technology (HF/LoRaWAN)” and the Starlink satellite network to enable accessibility to people without Internet connectivity.
Another crucial element is the GigaWallet project, a drop-in solution (a new type of Doge wallet) for internet-based transactions through standardized, non-custodial wallet integration with the Dogecoin network.
The duo considered the first phrase of Libdogecoin, a programming library or building blocks for creating Dogecoin projects, as the groundwork for forming and validating Doge’s addresses and transactions. They revealed that Dogecoin addresses created with the library have successfully received DOGE on the main network.
So @KBluezr and I stayed up late last night, and the result is, the first (yeah, testnet, but still) dogecoin transaction created entirely with #libdogecoin – which is aimed at demystifying dogecoin integration for developers, and making integration rapid. https://t.co/kqLBB7JLsj
The team explained that the main challenge in the progress of enabling GigaWallet to communicate with RadioDoge, and if Libdogecoin can do the heavy-lifting work. The first RadioDoge established last week will function as a testing ground for the new technology.
The next step is to test the first transactions formed with Libdogecoin being sent to RadioDoge, which will submit it to the Dogecoin testnet via a Starlink satellite.
According to Stebbing and Lumin, the new technology could revolutionarily stimulate Dogecoin’s grass-root adoption derived from emerging economies, making the DOGE “the defacto means for exchanging goods and services globally.” However, there is still long way to go, as the first phase of Libdogecoin only accounted for a 0.1 milestone of the project, the team noted.
