Long-term opportunities in the Bitcoin ecosystem infrastructure

With the ongoing craze for Bitcoin inscriptions, manually participating in new inscription projects has become a red ocean. However, historical experience shows that, like the early meme craze, most projects may only experience short-term prosperity, with only a few leading projects in the public chain ecosystem able to survive.

In this context, in addition to the endless stream of new inscription projects, the infrastructure within the ecosystem is becoming a potential long-term opportunity and is expected to become an indispensable necessity as the Bitcoin ecosystem continues to develop. This article will review the infrastructure projects of the Bitcoin ecosystem and outline the evolving landscape of the inscription infrastructure.

Overview of Bitcoin Ecosystem Infrastructure

The Bitcoin ecosystem and inscription infrastructure-related projects cover multiple areas including wallets, cross-chain, trading markets, minting tools, data, and queries.

wallet

1. Unisat: A non-custodial open-source Bitcoin inscription plugin wallet that supports Ordinals and BRC20, which can be used to store, mint, and transfer BRC20 tokens, as well as buy and sell BTC, NFTs, domain names, etc.

2. A certain trading platform Web3 wallet: First to support BRC20 inscriptions and BTC NFT trading, staking, launched Bitcoin ecological standard BRC20-S, inscription tools and other components, contributing to the open-source development of the Bitcoin inscription track.

3. Xverse: A non-KYC Bitcoin wallet developed by Secret Key Labs, supporting Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens, and the Bitcoin smart contract platform Stacks, with plans to support the Bitcoin Lightning Network in the future.

4. Odinals Wallet: A non-custodial BTC wallet that supports viewing, storing, and related operations for BTC and Ordinals NFTs, such as transferring, sending, registering, buying, and selling.

5. Hiro Wallet: A wallet developed on Stacks that supports storing and viewing Bitcoin and Ordinals, allowing users to manage STX and other assets across accounts.

Launchpad

1. TurtSat: A community-driven open platform aimed at becoming the Gitcoin of Ordinals, providing space for building, donating, and influencing Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20.

2. Luminex: Bitcoin Ordinals Launchpad platform, dedicated to bringing Bitcoin ordinals and BRC20 projects into the ecosystem, providing scalable non-custodial minting, image optimization, whitelist tier creation, marketing support, and other services.

3. A certain brand: Originally a decentralized auction protocol, it has recently gained attention due to auctioning Bitcoin-related concept projects. It launched BounceBit to design DeFi solutions for the Bitcoin ecosystem and introduced the Bitcoin-pegged coin BTCB to increase liquidity.

Cross-chain

1. MultiBit: BRC20 and ERC20 cross-chain protocol, based on BRC20 bi-directional cross-chain bridge design, enabling cross-chain transfer between the two types of tokens.

2. Analysoor: A cross-chain protocol for inscriptions on Solana that addresses the issues of fair release and liquidity guidance for memes and NFTs.

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 trading platform Ordinals market: the largest BRC20 inscription and BTC NFT trading market, decentralized, no platform service fees, supporting one-stop multifunctional operations.

2. Unisat Marketplace: A marketplace for Inscriptions based on PSBT on the Bitcoin chain, supporting BRC-20 assets.

3. Ordinals Market: Bitcoin inscription trading market, supporting multiple wallets and cross-chain trading.

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

5. Some Ecological Bitcoin: Bitcoin ecological NFT market that allows users to list, buy, and sell Ordinals.

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

Minting Tool

1. Looksordinal: A self-custody BRC20 token minting assistant tool.

2. iDclub: A BRC20 token minting platform that supports engraving Ordinals NFTs and inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain.

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

4. MCT: Multi-Chain Inscription Protocol, providing real-time monitoring and batch inscription for inscription projects across multiple public chains.

5. BIIS: The "BRC Ecosystem Toolbox" aimed at developers and users, providing comprehensive integrated tools.

Data and Query

1. mempool: The Bitcoin community's memory pool and blockchain explorer, providing real-time transaction status and data.

2. ordiscan: Ordinals browser, supports Bitcoin ordinal and inscription queries.

3. BRC-20.io: A Bitcoin inscription token data platform that provides real-time price tracking.

4. OrdSpace: Ordinals data insights and analytics platform.

5. Ordinals Directory: A summary platform for Ordinals NFT series.

6. Best in Slot: Ordinals aggregation and browser, supporting one-click viewing of Bitcoin inscription details.

7. GeniiData: Ordinals ecological data analysis platform, providing BRC20 token popularity index and ranking data.

8. Whatscription: A multi-chain inscription monitoring protocol that supports real-time tracking and querying of inscription minting status across multiple chains.

9. OrdinalHub: A one-stop data platform for Bitcoin NFTs, helping users gain an advantage in inscription trading.

Conclusion

The Ordinals wave has brought a large amount of funds, users, and developers to the Bitcoin ecosystem. This not only enhances the richness of new assets in the Bitcoin ecosystem but also indirectly increases the number of developers and the user base. Regardless of when the inscription craze returns to calm, the Bitcoin ecosystem has accumulated enough resources and attention, which will give rise to numerous opportunities for construction and sharing dividends. Therefore, the Bitcoin ecosystem and inscription infrastructure projects have long-term value, and the emergence of a large number of related projects will become an inevitable trend, worthy of long-term attention.