Dogecoin NFT Community 'Own The Doge' is Installing Kabuso Dog’s Statue in Japan

An engaged NFT assemblage that holds the archetypal ‘doge’ meme is moving with section governments to instal an existent statue that pays homage to Kabuso, the canine that inspired the meme.

The statue volition beryllium unveiled connected Nov. 2 successful Sakura, Japan, connected Kabuso’s day successful collaboration with the City of Sakura, assemblage members told CoinDesk. It is planned to beryllium placed successful Sakura Furusato Square, wherever Kabosu’s genitor often takes her connected walks.

Fans of Kabosu, the Japanese Shiba Inu canine who inspired the Doge meme and Dogecoin, past twelvemonth raised wealth to physique the statue – and adjacent privation to spot it connected the satellite 1 day.

“We've been operating for implicit 2 years, bringing Doge to places she's ne'er been, including Hollywood, EDM bangers and abstraction (The Doge NFT going connected a SpaceX ngo to moon),” tridog of PleasrDAO, the assemblage that owns the NFT, told CoinDesk successful an email.

“Our extremity is to go THE Doge gathering spot online for each of the Doge and meme community,” they added.

The assemblage plans to clasp interactive events to observe the occasion. Attendees volition besides get to conscionable the Sato, arsenic good arsenic beryllium rewarded definite privileges based connected their NFT holdings.

PleasrDAO, a acceptable of NFT collectors who bargain high-priced NFTs and physique communities, including Own The Doge, respect DOGE arsenic a abbreviated signifier of ‘Do Only Good Everyday.’ They donate to meaningful charities crossed the world, with Own The Doge listed arsenic the top crypto giver to Save The Children.

Own The Doge is besides moving connected a doge documentary featuring Kabuso’s beingness and the meme’s rise.

The doge meme came to beingness erstwhile Atsuko Sato clicked a representation of Kabosu for her blog successful 2010. It went viral erstwhile John Monarch, the poster who shared that photograph from Atsuko's blog, archetypal christened her with the sanction "doge" connected Reddit.

That has since go a portion of net civilization and was among the archetypal memes. It aboriginal spurred the instauration of dogecoin successful 2013 – and different dog-themed tokens successful the years pursuing – with specified tokens commanding a marketplace capitalization of tens of billions of dollars astatine highest popularity.