This article focuses on the “water sellers” of the inscription and provides a glimpse into the gradually forming landscape of the inscription infrastructure.
Table of Contents:
Wallets
Cross-chain
Trading Market
Launchpad
Minting Tools
Data & Query
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The term “water seller” comes from the story of the California Gold Rush, where the gold mining sites were located in valleys with scarce water resources. Therefore, the people who were busy mining gold suffered the most from the lack of drinking water. As a result, someone came up with the idea of selling water in those gold mining areas. The “water seller” earned a lot of money because there were many people in need of water. The infrastructure of the inscription is like the “water seller” of the inscription.
With the continuous popularity of the Bitcoin inscription race, manual participation in new on-chain inscription projects has quickly become a competitive field. From a narrative perspective, inscription is indeed different from many previous large-scale investment projects and VC-led traditional narrative logic, providing more opportunities for ordinary people to participate, not just OGs and whales.
In this context, even though the market is currently experiencing a short-term pullback, the field has already attracted enough funds and attention, creating opportunities for deposition, construction, and sharing of dividends. Besides the dazzling new inscription projects, the infrastructure of the inscription, which plays the role of “water seller,” naturally has the potential to become a long-term business and a necessity in the inscription race’s continuous construction.
This article aims to take stock of the inscription ecosystem’s infrastructure projects (mainly Bitcoin) and provide a glimpse into the gradually forming landscape of the inscription infrastructure.
The projects related to the inscription infrastructure cover wallets, cross-chain, trading markets, minting tools, data & query, and other fields. This article has compiled nearly 30 projects (not a complete list) to share with everyone and find the next MetaMask, Uniswap, LayerZero, and other star projects in various fields of the inscription infrastructure.
Unisat:
Unisat is a non-custodial open-source Bitcoin inscription plugin wallet that supports Ordinals and BRC20. It helps users store, mint, and transfer BRC20 tokens, including buying and selling BTC, NFTs, and domain names.
OKX Web3 Wallet:
This year, the OKX Web3 wallet has successively supported BRC20 inscription and BTC NFT trading, pledging, and launched Bitcoin ecological standards such as BRC20-S and inscription tools. It has made significant contributions to the open-source development of Bitcoin inscription, allowing more users to enter the Ordinals market smoothly.
Xverse:
Developed by Secret Key Labs, Xverse is a non-KYC Bitcoin wallet that supports Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens, and the Bitcoin smart contract platform Stacks. It will also support the Bitcoin Lightning Network in the future.
Ordinals Wallet:
Ordinals Wallet was launched in February this year. It is a non-custodial BTC wallet that allows users to view and store BTC and Ordinals NFTs. It also supports various Ordinals-related operations such as transfers, sending, registration, buying, and selling.
Ordinals Wallet’s mnemonic is generated locally and stored on the computer. It is encrypted in the browser. Users can directly transfer Ordinals NFTs from the wallet and list BRC-20 tokens on the Ordinals Wallet market.
Hiro Wallet:
Hiro Wallet is a wallet based on Stacks, supporting the storage and viewing of Bitcoin and Ordinals. It allows users to manage their STX and other assets (such as BNS domain names and NFTs) across accounts. It also supports all asset types that can be sent to Bitcoin addresses.
MultiBit:
MultiBit is a cross-chain protocol for BRC20 and ERC20. It is based on the BRC20 bilateral cross-chain bridge design and aims to achieve cross-chain transfer between BRC20 and ERC20 tokens.
Analysoor:
Analysoor is an inscription cross-chain protocol on Solana, aiming to solve the fair release and liquidity guidance issues of memes and NFTs. The first project ZERO adopts a unique lottery mechanism (9.5% winning rate) and uses SOL as the lottery token, attracting a lot of attention. The second project ONE has also completed minting through the lottery mechanism. As of yesterday, 95% of Analysoor’s NFTs have been distributed, with 25,000 participants in minting. Discord plans to open ZERO and ONE to holders today. Analysoor will no longer distribute tokens but will provide Launchpad services to other projects and transition to a LaunchPad platform.
TeleportDAO:
TeleportDAO is a cross-chain Ordinals market, which currently includes two main products: TeleSwap, a multi-chain BTC cross-chain trading protocol that supports asset transfers and trading between BTC and Polygon, and TeleOrdinal, an Ordinals trading market.
OKX Ordinals Market:
OKX Web3 Wallet’s Ordinals Market is the largest BRC20 inscription and BTC NFT trading market. It is fully decentralized, with no platform service fees, and supports one-stop transfer, trading, and inscription of BRC-20 and BTC NFTs.
As of last week, the total trading volume of OKX Web3 Wallet’s Ordinals Market has exceeded 500 million USD, with the total trading volume of the Ordinals protocol reaching nearly 865 million USD, accounting for about 58% of OKX Web3 Wallet.
Unisat Marketplace:
Unisat Marketplace is an inscription market under Unisat. It is a PSBT-based market on the Bitcoin chain that supports BRC-20 assets. With a trading volume of 41 million USD, it ranks fourth in the NFT market in November.
Ordinals Market:
Ordinals Market is a Bitcoin inscription trading market that supports users to trade on Bitcoin using wallets such as Xverse. It also supports users to trade Bitcoin NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain using Emblem Vault’s “storage” technology (including the encrypted private key of the Bitcoin address that owns the inscription).
Ordswap:
Ordswap is a trustless Ordinals market built on Bitcoin, allowing users to register, buy, sell, and auction Bitcoin NFTs.
Magic Eden Bitcoin:
Magic Eden Bitcoin is a Bitcoin ecology NFT market launched in March this year. It allows users to list, buy, and sell Ordinals. In addition, Magic Eden also launched the Bitcoin Launchpad to help creators launch Ordinals protocols and create Bitcoin NFTs directly on the Magic Eden Launchpad.
Orders Exchange:
Orders Exchange is a decentralized exchange for BRC20 tokens built on Bitcoin PSBT technology.
Turtsat:
Turtsat is a community-driven open platform that aims to be the Gitcoin of Ordinals. Through Turtsat, users can build, donate, and influence Bitcoin Ordinal & BRC-20 projects.
Luminex:
As a Bitcoin Ordinals Launchpad platform, Luminex is committed to introducing Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC20 projects into the Bitcoin ecosystem. Users can conduct scalable and non-custodial minting and also provide services such as image optimization, whitelist level creation, and marketing support.
Looksordinal:
Looksordinal is a self-custody BRC20 token minting tool that supports users in creating all necessary addresses in the browser for creating self-controlled inscriptions.
iDclub:
iDclub is a minting platform for BRC20 tokens, supporting users to mint Ordinals NFTs and inscriptions on the Bitcoin chain. It has also expanded its suite to launch a trading market that supports users to buy and sell Ordinals inscriptions.
CoinTool:
CoinTool is an on-chain toolset that has launched a series of tools for multi-chain inscription minting and monitoring, including EVM multi-wallet batch inscription, SOL batch inscription, Tron multi-wallet batch inscription, IOST batch inscription, etc.
MCT:
MCT is a multi-chain inscription monitoring protocol that covers real-time monitoring of inscription projects on more than 20 public chains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Sui. It supports users to conduct batch inscription and covers all EVM chains and blockchain networks such as Tron.
BIIS:
BIIS aims to create the ultimate integrated and convenient technology stack for BRC20 tokens. It is positioned as a “BRC Ecology Toolbox” for developers and users, providing a comprehensive set of integration tools for project developers and users, including batch distribution and aggregation of BRC20 tokens, batch distribution and aggregation of BRC-721 NFTs, and other integration tools. It will also launch a fully automated asset release platform, supporting multiple asset release modes such as Free Mint/AirDrop/IDO, and providing an inscription DAO voting system for project parties to achieve automated release and decentralized governance of projects. BIIS has already received strategic investments from Japanese cryptocurrency investment institutions CGV and KuCoin Labs.
ordiscan:
ordiscan is an Ordinals browser that allows users to query Bitcoin inscriptions and addresses. It can also search for corresponding inscriptions and addresses.
BRC-20.io:
BRC-20.io is a token data platform for Bitcoin inscriptions. It provides users with real-time price tracking for various BRC-20 tokens, allowing users to keep up with the latest market trends. It has also launched new products such as BRC20 DEX and DeFi Center.
OrdSpace:
OrdSpace is a data insight and analysis platform for Ordinals. It uses multidimensional data to recalculate the ranking of all BRC-20 tokens.
The new product 20scan has officially provided API services to the public (in beta), allowing developers to quickly build their own projects in the ORC-20 system.
Ordinals Directory:
Ordinals Directory is an NFT platform dedicated to Ordinals. It allows collectors to discover popular and new collections and analyze floor price data.
Best in Slot:
Best in Slot is an Ordinals aggregator and browser that supports users to easily view all Bitcoin inscriptions and their detailed information, including popular and latest inscriptions, and allows for real-time interaction.
GeniiData:
GeniiData is an Ordinals ecosystem data analysis platform that provides heat index and ranking data for BRC20 tokens, allowing users to capture the minting status of hot inscriptions and NFTs in real-time. It has also launched the ORC-20 index service, which showcases the information of ORC-20 token deployments, including maximum supply, current minting status, upgradeability, ORC-20 token holders’ information, transaction records, and the ability to verify transaction status.
Whatscription:
Whatscription is a multi-chain inscription monitoring protocol that supports users to track and query the minting status of inscriptions on Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, Polygon, Linea, and other chains in real-time.
OrdinalHub:
OrdinalHub is a one-stop data platform for discovering, tracking, and analyzing Bitcoin NFTs. It aims to help users gain an advantage in inscription trading and quickly identify new trends.