What Happened: After six years, the Dogecoin Foundation has been re-established with a renewed focus on supporting the Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) ecosystem, adding some high-profile names to its board of advisors.

The Foundation Board consists of core developers Ross Nicoll and Michi Lumin, along with product and community leads Timothy Stebbing, Gary Lachance, and Jens Wiechers.

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Why It Matters: Now that the Foundation has been re-launched, a structure will be put in place to hire full-time staff to work on the project. These include engineers who would work towards faster integration and easier APIs for financial, social and charitable projects wishing to use Dogecoin.

The Dogecoin Foundation also stated its intent to protect the Dogecoin brand.

“In recent times, numerous attempts have been made to co-opt the ‘Dogecoin’ brand in various jurisdictions, in ways that would prevent the community and the project itself from using them,” said the project.

Now, however, the Dogecoin Foundation said it exclusively holds the Dogecoin mark and the Dogecoin Logo and intends to maintain them for the community.

DOGE Price Action: DOGE was trading at a price of $0.30, down 7.2% over the past 24-hours. The meme-based cryptocurrency had a trading volume of $5.6 billion at the time of writing.