Behind the Bitcoin Inscription Craze: Exploring the Long-Term Value of Ecological Infrastructure

As the popularity of Bitcoin inscriptions continues to rise, manually participating in new inscription projects has become highly competitive. However, historical experience shows that, like the early meme token craze, most projects may only be short-lived, and in the end, perhaps only a few leading projects will remain.

In this context, in addition to the endless stream of new inscription projects, projects that provide infrastructure for the entire ecosystem may become long-term business opportunities and an indispensable part of the continuous development of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

This article aims to outline the infrastructure projects in the Bitcoin ecosystem, sketching the emerging inscription infrastructure ecological landscape.

Bitcoin Ecosystem Inscription Infrastructure Overview

Projects related to the Bitcoin ecosystem and inscription infrastructure cover multiple areas such as wallets, cross-chain, trading markets, minting tools, data, and queries.

wallet

1. Unisat: The first non-custodial open-source Bitcoin inscription plugin wallet integrated with Ordinals, supporting Ordinals and BRC20.

2. A Web3 wallet on a trading platform: First to support BRC20 inscriptions and BTC NFT trading and staking, launching the BRC20-S standard and inscription tools, etc.

3. Xverse: A non-KYC Bitcoin wallet developed by Secret Key Labs, supporting Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens, and the Stacks platform.

4. Ordinals Wallet: A non-custodial BTC wallet that supports viewing and storing BTC and Ordinals NFTs, and allows for related operations.

5. Hiro Wallet: Developed on Stacks, supports storage and viewing of Bitcoin and Ordinals, and allows cross-account management of STX and other assets.

Launchpad

1. TurtSat: A community-driven open platform aimed at becoming Gitcoin for Ordinals.

2. Luminex: Bitcoin Ordinals Launchpad platform, providing scalable non-custodial minting and other services.

3. A certain brand: decentralized auction protocol, recently attracted attention due to auctioning Bitcoin-related conceptual projects.

cross-chain

1. MultiBit: BRC20 and ERC20 cross-chain protocol, enabling cross-chain transfer between the two.

2. Analysoor: An inscription cross-chain protocol on Solana that addresses the issues of meme and NFT issuance and liquidity.

3. TeleportDAO: A cross-chain Ordinals marketplace, including the multi-chain BTC cross-chain trading protocol TeleSwap and the Ordinals trading market TeleOrdinal.

trading market

1. A certain trading platform Ordinals market: the largest BRC20 inscription and BTC NFT trading market, decentralized and free of platform service fees.

2. Unisat Marketplace: A marketplace for Inscriptions supporting BRC-20 assets.

3. Ordinals Market: Bitcoin inscription trading market, supporting multiple wallets.

4. Ordswap: A trustless Ordinals market built on Bitcoin.

5. A certain NFT platform Bitcoin: Bitcoin ecological NFT market, supports listing, purchasing, and selling Ordinals.

6. Orders Exchange: A decentralized exchange for BRC20 tokens built on Bitcoin PSBT technology.

minting tool

1. Looksordinal: Self-custody BRC20 token minting assistant tool.

2. iDclub: A BRC20 token minting platform that supports inscribing Ordinals NFTs and inscriptions.

3. CoinTool: A multi-chain inscription minting and monitoring toolkit.

4. MCT: Multi-Chain Inscription Protocol, supporting more than 20 public chains.

5. BIIS: "BRC Ecosystem Toolbox" for developers and users.

Data and Query

1. mempool: Bitcoin community memory pool and blockchain explorer.

2. ordiscan: Ordinals browser, supports querying inscriptions and addresses.

3. BRC-20.io: Bitcoin inscription token data platform, providing real-time price tracking.

4. OrdSpace: An insights and analytics platform for Ordinals data.

5. Ordinals Directory: A platform for summarizing the Ordinals NFT series.

6. Best in Slot: Ordinals Aggregator and Browser.

7. GeniiData: Ordinals ecological data analysis platform.

8. Whatscription: Multi-chain inscription monitoring protocol.

9. OrdinalHub: A one-stop data platform for Bitcoin NFTs.

Conclusion

The Ordinals wave has brought a large amount of funds, users, and developers to the Bitcoin ecosystem, significantly enhancing the asset diversity, developer count, and user base of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Regardless of when the inscription craze cools down, the Bitcoin ecosystem has already accumulated sufficient resources and attention, which will give rise to numerous opportunities for construction and sharing of dividends. Therefore, projects related to the Bitcoin ecosystem and inscription infrastructure may hold long-term value and are worth ongoing attention.