Proposal “Dash-Inscription-Market“ (Active)Back

Title:Dash Inscription Market
Owner:reallyshadydev
One-time payment: 150 DASH (7904 USD)
Completed payments: no payments occurred yet (1 month remaining)
Payment start/end: 2025-12-06 / 2026-01-05 (added on 2025-12-04)
Final voting deadline: in 1 month
Votes: 7 Yes / 85 No / 0 Abstain
Will be funded: No. This proposal needs additional 430 Yes votes to become funded.
External information: www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-inscription-market.68505/
Manually vote on this proposal (DashCore - Tools - Debugconsole):
gobject vote-many e8ff1ea7f63b0210e92e94c7cdeb8a0c855350450012551c1c74212cd22ed87c funding yes

Please login or create a new DashCentral account for comfortable one button voting!

Proposal description

Hi Dash Family!We are the small team behind https://froggy.market – the most active and widely used inscription marketplace on Pepecoin. We built and shipped the entire product with zero funding and it has been running 24/7 for month.What We Will DeliverA brand-new, completely Dash-native inscription marketplace featuring:
  • Fresh name and clean, professional design (no frogs, no Pepecoin theme)
  • True inscriptions using arbitrary data attached to the smallest possible spends on Dash mainnet (exactly like Doginals / Ordinals / Pepe inscriptions)
  • Instant fixed-price buying and selling powered by Dash Pay (sub-second, < $0.01 fees)
  • Real-time indexer that tracks every inscription the moment it confirms
  • Floor prices, 24h volume, market cap tables, trending collections, search, filters, activity feed
  • Mobile-first, beautiful UI
  • PrivateSend toggle for anonymous listings
  • Full wallet support (Dash Core, Dash Wallet, etc.)
  • Seeded collections at launch + Christmas airdrop for early users and masternodes
The original FroggyMarket stays on Pepecoin forever. This is a separate, professional Dash product.Why Dash Needs This Right NowInscriptions (arbitrary data permanently etched on-chain) are still one of the largest recurring volume drivers in every bull cycle. They didn’t die – they just keep moving to whichever chain is fastest and cheapest at the time.Dash already wins on both speed and cost:
  • InstantSend = sub-second finality
  • Fees routinely under one cent
  • PrivateSend built-in
  • Mature network with real payment adoption
Yet there is currently zero polished marketplace that lets people easily list, discover, and instantly trade Dash inscriptions. Without it, the advantage stays dormant.A fast, clean inscription platform on Dash would:
  • Pull in creators and traders the moment the next wave starts
  • Bring real daily volume and new users to the chain
  • Prove Dash Pay in the wild to a huge global audience
  • Position Dash as the undisputed home for high-velocity, low-cost inscriptions
Why We Can Ship in 20 DaysWe already own a live, production-grade inscription indexer and marketplace. Every hard part is solved:
  • Real-time inscription tracking
  • Instant-buy fixed-price engine
  • Mobile UI framework
  • Wallet signing flow
We simply port it, attach the data the Doginals way (arbitrary data on the smallest spends), hook Dash Pay, re-skin professionally, audit, and launch. 20 days is conservative.What the 150 DASH CoversEverything needed for a secure, audited Christmas launch:
  • Full-time 20-day dev sprint (2 devs)
  • Arbitrary-data inscription implementation on Dash
  • Dash Pay + PrivateSend integration
  • New professional UI/UX
  • Third-party security audit
  • Domain, hosting, initial collections, launch marketing
One payment, one delivery.Final WordDash has the fastest confirms and lowest fees in crypto.
Inscriptions are proven volume machines.
All that’s missing is the front door.Give us 20 days and we’ll open it – live by Christmas morning.Submitted by the FroggyMarket team
Contact: @froggymarket on X
4 December 2025

Show full description ...

Discussion: Should we fund this proposal?

Submit comment
 
0 points,6 hours ago
If it helps the proposal, L2 could easily be added to the website as well. Utilizing both layer one functions and layer two functions.
Reply
3 points,3 days ago
Thank you for making a proposal. I'm sadly not a big fan of this one. Even though you might have meant well Dash Platform is literally built so we don't need to do this on the Core chain. On the core chain syncing is quite complicated, whereas on our Platform chain we currently support all of this as long as you register a NFT contract.

So like let's imagine you wanted to make a website that sold NFTs. With this system that you are proposing you would need to have a centralized server that ran the blockchain and that would process and serve the information from the blockchain. With Platform you don't. The website client is very light querying the dash network directly.

Also on our core chain the network only might break even fee wise for data stored, on the platform chain the network actually makes money.
Reply
2 points,3 days ago
Voting No on this budget proposal.

I could support a budget proposal that offer a Platform dApp which jump start a Pixie Art NFT / Small NFT Marketplace for Dash on the Platform chain (L2). That dApp will need to :

* allow users to add png files with max size of 16KB (maybe add to browser LocalStorage ?)
* encode added png files to Base64 (convert through javascript ?)
* merge into Platform block (maybe through using Dash SDK ?)
* add the Base64 NFT to a newly formed Dash NFT Marketplace, where the Base64 files / hashes are decoded to png files, so users can view them and trade them
* upscale the png files in the Dash Marketplace for better view ability (maybe upscale to 512x512 and use sharpening techniques)
Reply
0 points,4 days ago
Voting NO.
-----------

Inscriptions are a very harmful feature for Dash.

Essentially, they spam the blockchain with non-financial transactions.

*Using Inscriptions will lead to:*

- increased blockchain growth.

- increased technical debt on the Dash network.

- increased masternode hosting costs.

- increased wallet synchronization time.

- legal risks for storing illegal pornography for anyone using DashCore.
Reply
1 point,4 days ago
''- legal risks for storing illegal pornography for anyone using DashCore.''

That same risk applies to Ethereum (Cryptopunks) and Tezos (small NFT's) and does not seem to form a risk factor there.
Reply
1 point,4 days ago
Also the 80 bytes storage limitation on Dash L1 prevent that specific risk. This proposal is more about creating some kind of market place for something (inscriptions) that can be done already on L1 manually (yes, i am looking at you xkcd .. i still remember that manually inscribed block of yours that you directed at me).

Personally i dont really like to see L1 get spammed with these kind of inscriptions and i doubt there is a good usecase for it. I rather see L2 (Platform) get a good use case.
Reply
2 points,4 days ago
This could be a L2 (Platform) use case :

64x64 png --> Base64 encoded into an Platform block

Needs specialized Dash software (NFT Creator / NFT Explorer) to encode PNG files to Base64 and decode Base64 to PNG so people can actually view that image.
Reply
2 points,3 days ago
Platform is the place to store arbitrary data, but I feel the PO wants a more portable product they can move from chain to chain, which is the main reason I am not supporting this proposal, it is generic.
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
example on doge
allows any size data to be inscribed onto subwoofers.

An inscription is defined as a series of push datas: sh "ord" OP_1 "text/plain;charset=utf-8" OP_0 "Woof!" For doginals, we introduce a couple extensions. First, content may spread across multiple parts: "ord" OP_2 "text/plain;charset=utf-8" OP_1 "Woof and " OP_0 "woof woof!"

This content here would be concatenated as "Woof and woof woof!". This allows up to ~1500 bytes of data per transaction.

Second, P2SH is used to encode inscriptions.

There are no restrictions on what P2SH scripts may do as long as the redeem scripts start with inscription push datas.

And third, inscriptions are allowed to chain across transactions:

Transaction 1: sh "ord" OP_2 "text/plain;charset=utf-8" OP_1 "Woof and "

Transaction 2 sh OP_0 "woof woof!"
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
you can embed arbitrary data on the Dash blockchain, though it’s limited to small amounts (up to around 80 bytes per transaction via OP_RETURN outputs) for the main chain, similar to Bitcoin’s datacarrier functionality. This is often used for memos, inscriptions, or simple metadata, and it’s provably unspendable to avoid cluttering the UTXO set. For larger or more structured data storage, Dash’s sidechain solution—Dash Platform (including the Drive database)—allows for scalable, document-oriented storage of application data, user profiles, identities, and more, without bloating the primary payment-focused blockchain.
How It Works on the Main Dash Chain (OP_RETURN)
Dash, being a Bitcoin fork, supports OP_RETURN opcodes in transactions to attach non-financial data directly to the blockchain. This is ideal for short “inscriptions” like text messages, hashes, or timestamps:
• Limitations: Data size is capped at ~80 bytes to prevent spam and keep blocks lean (Dash blocks are ~2MB, but OP_RETURN is restricted). Larger data would require multiple transactions or off-chain linking.
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
What are your thoughts about Dash possibly raising the limit from 80 bytes to 1KB, so Dash could at least store pixel art and small images (24x24 --> 576 pixels) fully on the Platform chain ? This would be similar to how CryptoPunks store their punks (about 0.56 KB) on the Ethereum main chain. Also similar to how Tezos stored small NFT's on-chain. Only for Dash it would be on the Dash Platform sidechain.
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
You can chain multiple 80byte txs with this allowing max base size tx, in eessence allowing technically up to 2mb inscriptions
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
Scrap that question. It looks like the Platform chain already has storage up to 16KB, but only in JSON format. Other formats are not supported.

So in order for Platform to store also pixel art and small NFT's, Platform would need binary field support with a schema where one field is JSON metadata (16 KB) and another is raw pixel data (1 KB).
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
The Dash Platform sidechain has been in operation for more then a year, without having any development of dApps (mostly due to SDK's needed to be either developed from scratch or needing severe adjustment) and without any clear use cases so far.

Maybe this could be a potential use case for Platform : allowing for the storage of pixel art and small NFT's fully on the Platform chain.
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
Since Dash Platform NFT's differ considerably from Pepecoin NFT's (Dash Platform has very limited storage space for mainly meta data storage = no direct storage for images), can you explain what Dash native inscriptions / Dash native NFT's will look like.

This proposal has not yet a proposal text, but i already came across it here : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-inscription-market.68505/
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
To be honest, i do feel DCG shot itself in the foot when it placed these very strict storage requirements for NFT's on Platform, together with the censorship storage discussions for Platform. To me it feels like Dash NFT's are in a way DOA (Death on Arrival) now.
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
They are in fact so strict, that we can't even store a picture to our Platform Identity. Instead we need to have this linked to an outside source.
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
Why is it that even hardware wallet like Ledger allow NFT's on their wallets, yet Platform does not ?
Reply
0 points,5 days ago
(i am talking about image NFT's here !)
Reply