History and Vision
From Layer-2 to Super App
Laika started life as a Layer-2 experiment. Running our own chain gave us speed and control, but it also surfaced a hard truth:
Infra alone doesn’t build economies.
Communities needed application-layer primitives — launch, staking, governance, distribution — that worked together out of the box.
Liquidity and attention were fragmenting.
Operating a separate chain split users, tooling and narrative away from Dogecoin’s cultural center of gravity.
Most work was infra maintenance, not value creation.
Time that should have gone into incentives, UX and growth loops was spent on chain ops.
↝ In 2025 we sunset the Laika L2 and pivoted all focus to the application layer — building the first Super App on Dogecoin, deployed on DogeOS.
The chain was wound down safely; unclaimed on-chain assets were secured in multisig and long-term allocations (DAO, foundation, ecosystem) are slated to migrate to DogeOS at mainnet.
What changed — and what stays
↝ What changed
From running a chain → running an economy (LaunchOS, StakeOS, GovernOS, ShillOS; EquityOS & Creator Hub coming).
Tokenomics reset for durability: total supply reduced from 100M → 80M, emissions tightly controlled, and $LAIKA positioned as the core of value capture.
Doge-first architecture: programmability on DogeOS, final truth and meta-governance anchored to $DOGE.
↝ What stays
The mission to turn Doge culture → real economies.
The $LAIKA asset as the protocol’s coordination and incentive layer.
A community-led approach: curation earned on-chain, not granted off-chain.
Vision
Laika is building the economic layer of Dogecoin — one Super App where communities can launch, stake, govern, distribute and scale without stitching together brittle tools.
Incentives beyond hype
Yield is tied to participation and governance, not mercenary liquidity.
Open the insider game
Insider advantages (alpha windows, priority access) are earned on-chain through voting and alignment.
Composability compounds power
Each module strengthens the next: launch → DAO → staking → governance → distribution → growth.
Doge-native, cross-chain aware
Capital and users can come from anywhere; meta-governance and settlement stay on Doge.
Our thesis in one line
Memes created the demand. Laika provides the rails.
With DogeOS enabling programmability and Laika orchestrating incentives, Dogecoin scales from culture into an economy — sustainably.
What success looks like
Thriving pipelines of curated and permissionless launches with auto-bootstrapped DAOs.
StakeOS as the standard for single-asset ve(3,3) on Dogecoin, routing emissions to communities that organize.
Active dual governance (veLAIKA + veTOKEN) driving treasury decisions, upgrades and incentive flows.
ShillOS powering transparent creator payouts and measurable distribution.
Projects graduating to EquityOS and hiring via Creator Hub — from meme → brand → business.