Metallicus Deploys DogecoinVM Layer on Mainnet, Claims 300x Faster Transactions

U.Today reported that fintech company Metallicus deployed an alpha version of its DogecoinVM payment layer on mainnet. Metallicus CEO and Dogecoin Foundation board member Marshall Hayner said the layer makes Dogecoin transactions 300 times faster, presenting the work as a direct answer to the throughput problem Elon Musk identified in 2021, when the billionaire urged the crypto community to raise Dogecoin throughput several times over so the coin could function as a global payment method. Rather than modify the base Dogecoin Core protocol, Metallicus engineers built DogecoinVM as an independent parallel layer on top of the Metal Blockchain infrastructure. Hayner said the deployment does not create a new coin or change Dogecoin Core itself, that the architecture preserves the original UTXO model, and that existing D-format wallets and keys keep working as before. U.Today is the only outlet in this set carrying the story, and the 300x figure and the alpha status rest on the company's own account with no second source or independent measurement here.