The "Water Seller" ecosystem gradually takes shape: a comprehensive overview of the inscription infrastructure landscape
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The "Water Seller" ecosystem gradually takes shape: a comprehensive overview of the inscription infrastructure landscape
This article targets the "water sellers" of inscriptions, offering a glimpse into the potentially emerging ecosystem landscape of inscription infrastructure.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Frank, Foresight News
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With the Bitcoin inscription space continuing to heat up, manually participating in new on-chain inscription projects has quickly turned into a fiercely competitive arena. From a narrative standpoint, inscriptions indeed differ from previous high-funding ventures and VC-driven traditional storylines, offering more ordinary users—beyond just OGs and whales—opportunities to participate.
Against this backdrop, even as the market faces short-term corrections, the sector has already attracted substantial capital and attention. What’s needed now is time for consolidation, development, and sharing of the resulting benefits. Beyond the dazzling array of new inscription projects, the infrastructure providers serving as 'water sellers' within the entire ecosystem may naturally evolve into long-term businesses, becoming essential necessities as the inscription ecosystem continues to mature.
This article aims to review key infrastructure projects in the inscription ecosystem (primarily focused on Bitcoin), offering a glimpse into the emerging landscape of inscription infrastructure.
Inscription Infrastructure Overview
Inscription-related infrastructure spans wallets, cross-chain solutions, marketplaces, minting tools, data & analytics. This article covers nearly 30 projects (incomplete list), shared with the goal of identifying potential future leaders akin to MetaMask, Uniswap, or LayerZero across their respective categories.
Wallets
Unisat
Unisat is a non-custodial, open-source Bitcoin inscription plugin wallet supporting Ordinals and BRC20 tokens. It enables users to store, mint, and transfer BRC20 tokens, as well as trade BTC, NFTs, domains, and more.
OKX Web3 Wallet
This year, OKX Web3 Wallet added support for BRC20 inscriptions and BTC NFT trading and staking, launched the BRC20-S standard for the Bitcoin ecosystem, and introduced inscription tools, significantly contributing to the open development of the Ordinals space and enabling broader user access to the Ordinals market.
Xverse
Xverse, developed by Secret Key Labs, is a non-KYC Bitcoin wallet supporting Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens, and the Stacks Bitcoin smart contract platform. It plans to support the Bitcoin Lightning Network in the future.
Ordinals Wallet
Ordinals Wallet, launched in February, is a non-custodial BTC wallet allowing users to view and store BTC and Ordinals NFTs. It supports various Ordinals-related operations such as transfers, sending, inscription registration, and buying/selling.
Mnemonics for Ordinals Wallet are generated and stored locally on the user's device and encrypted within the browser. Users can directly create and transfer Ordinals NFTs from the wallet and list BRC-20 tokens on the Ordinals Wallet marketplace.
Hiro Wallet
Hiro Wallet, built on Stacks, supports storing and viewing Bitcoin and Ordinals, allows cross-account management of STX and other assets (such as BNS domains and NFTs), and supports all asset types that can be sent to a Bitcoin address.
Cross-Chain
MultiBit
MultiBit is a cross-chain protocol between BRC20 and ERC20, designed as a two-way bridge to enable token transfers between BRC20 and ERC20 networks.
Analysoor
Analysoor is a Solana-based inscription cross-chain protocol aiming to solve fair distribution and liquidity bootstrapping for memes and NFTs. Its first project, ZERO, features a unique lottery draw mechanism (9.5% win rate) using SOL as the entry token, attracting significant attention. The second project, ONE, has also completed its minting via a similar lottery system.
As of yesterday, 95% of Analysoor’s NFTs have been distributed, with 25,000 participants in the minting process. Discord access will open today for holders of ZERO and ONE. Going forward, Analysoor will no longer issue tokens but will provide launchpad services for other projects, transitioning into a dedicated LaunchPad platform.
TeleportDAO
TeleportDAO is a cross-chain Ordinals marketplace currently offering two main products: TeleSwap, a multi-chain BTC cross-chain trading protocol enabling asset transfers and trades between BTC and Polygon; and TeleOrdinal, an Ordinals trading marketplace.
Marketplaces
OKX Ordinals Marketplace
The Ordinals Marketplace on OKX Web3 Wallet is the leading decentralized BRC20 inscription and BTC NFT trading platform, offering fee-free interactions and one-stop functionality for transferring, trading, and inscribing BRC-20 tokens and BTC NFTs.
As of last week, the total trading volume on OKX Web3 Wallet’s Ordinals Marketplace surpassed $500 million. The overall Ordinals protocol trading volume approached $865 million, with OKX Web3 Wallet accounting for approximately 58%.
Unisat Marketplace
Unisat Marketplace is a PSBT-based Bitcoin on-chain marketplace under Unisat, supporting BRC-20 asset inscriptions. In November, it ranked fourth among NFT marketplaces with $41 million in trading volume.
Ordinals Market
Ordinals Market is a Bitcoin inscription trading platform enabling transactions using wallets like Xverse on Bitcoin. It also supports trading Bitcoin inscriptions on Ethereum via Emblem Vault’s “Vault” technology, which securely stores encrypted private keys of Bitcoin addresses containing inscriptions.
Ordswap
Ordswap is a trustless Ordinals marketplace built on Bitcoin, allowing users to list, buy, sell, and auction Bitcoin NFTs.
Magic Eden Bitcoin
Magic Eden Bitcoin, launched in March, is an NFT marketplace for the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing users to list, purchase, and sell Ordinals. Additionally, Magic Eden has launched a Bitcoin Launchpad to help creators launch directly on the platform and create Bitcoin NFTs via the Magic Eden Launchpad.
Orders Exchange
Orders Exchange is a decentralized exchange for BRC20 tokens built on Bitcoin’s PSBT technology.
Launchpad
TurtSat
TurtSat is a community-driven open platform aiming to become the Gitcoin of Ordinals, providing a space for building, donating, and influencing Bitcoin Ordinals & BRC-20 projects.
Luminex
Luminex, as a Bitcoin Ordinals Launchpad platform, is dedicated to bringing Bitcoin ordinal and BRC20 projects into the Bitcoin ecosystem. It offers scalable, non-custodial minting, along with image optimization, multiple whitelist tiers, marketing support, and other services.
Minting Tools
Looksordinal
Looksordinal is a self-custody BRC20 token minting assistant tool that supports users in creating all necessary addresses directly in-browser to mint inscriptions under their own control.
iDclub
iDclub is a BRC20 token minting platform supporting inscription and Ordinals NFT minting on the Bitcoin chain. It has since expanded to include a marketplace where users can buy and sell Ordinals inscriptions.
CoinTool
CoinTool is a suite of on-chain tools offering a range of services for multi-chain inscription minting and monitoring, including batch inscription across EVM wallets, Solana, Tron, and IOST.
MCT
MCT is a multi-chain inscription protocol providing real-time monitoring of inscription projects across over 20 public chains—including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Sui—and supports batch inscription across all EVM chains and networks like Tron.
BIIS
BIIS aims to build the ultimate integrated tech stack for BRC20 tokens, positioning itself as a comprehensive "BRC ecosystem toolbox" for both developers and users. It offers an integrated toolkit including bulk distribution and aggregation of BRC20 and other tokens, bulk handling of BRC-721 and other NFT assets, and plans to launch a fully automated asset release platform supporting Free Mint, Airdrop, IDO, and other models. It will also offer inscription DAO voting systems to enable automated project launches and decentralized community governance.
BIIS has received strategic investment from Japanese crypto investment firm CGV and KuCoin Labs.
Data & Analytics
ordiscan
ordiscan is an Ordinals explorer allowing users to query ordinals and inscriptions on Bitcoin, as well as search specific inscriptions and addresses.
BRC-20.io
BRC-20.io is a token data platform for Bitcoin inscriptions, offering real-time price tracking for various BRC-20 tokens so users can stay updated on market trends. It has recently launched new products: BRC20 DEX and a DeFi hub.
OrdSpace
OrdSpace is a data insights and analytics platform for Ordinals, recalculating rankings for all BRC-20 tokens using multidimensional data.
Its new product, 20scan, has officially launched public API services (beta), enabling developers to rapidly build projects within the ORC-20 system.
Ordinals Directory
Ordinals Directory is a curated platform for Ordinals NFT collections, helping collectors discover trending and newly released collections and analyze floor price data.
Best in Slot
Best in Slot is an Ordinals aggregator and explorer enabling users to instantly view all Bitcoin inscriptions and their details—including trending and latest inscriptions—and interact with them in real time.
GeniiData
GeniiData is an analytics platform for the Ordinals ecosystem, providing heat indices and ranking data for BRC20 tokens, helping users track real-time minting activity of trending inscriptions and NFTs.
It has also launched an ORC-20 indexing service, primarily displaying deployment information for ORC-20 tokens—including max supply, current minting status, upgradability, holder data, transaction history, and transaction verification capabilities.
Whatscription
Whatscription is a multi-chain inscription monitoring protocol enabling real-time tracking and querying of inscription activities on Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, Polygon, Linea, and other blockchains.
OrdinalHub
OrdinalHub is an all-in-one data platform combining discovery, tracking, and analysis of Bitcoin NFTs, aiming to give users an edge in inscription trading and help them quickly identify emerging trends.
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