Over 2 million DOGE sit trapped in limbo as Dogechain keeps printing blocks past its final deadline

Dogechain, a separate Ethereum-compatible network from the Dogecoin blockchain, kept producing blocks after its announced 12:00 UTC shutdown on Aug. 8. Its project-run bridge page also remained online, while a Dogechain-specific QuickSwap route continued sending users to Polygon.Dogechain announced the cutoff in July and warned that assets remaining on the chain might become inaccessible or permanently lost. The split in service availability after noon leaves the recovery path for those assets unresolved.Blocks continued after noonThe official RPC, the endpoint apps use to communicate with the network, returned block 62,578,500 immediately before noon and block 62,578,578 less than two minutes after the deadline. The latter carried a 12:01:52 UTC timestamp.The official explorer remained available minutes later and showed the chain at block 62,578,630, with recent blocks attributed to multiple miner addresses. That activity showed the network had not stopped producing blocks immediately after the cutoff, though it did not show whether all project-operated services still worked.The official bridge interface was also visible after noon, with deposit and withdrawal controls. Its dashbo...