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What are Ordinals?

An introduction to Ordinals

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Last updated 1 year ago

Ordinals

The is the primary data tokenization standard in the Bitcoin space. It serves as the foundation of the on-chain economy. Ordinals are the greatest thing to come to Bitcoin in over a decade.

An Ordinal economy, backed by SHA256, provides the largest amount of permissionless liquidity ever seen. Ordinals remove the silos of creativity, enabling value to seamlessly flow away from inefficiencies and towards innovation. Ordinals serve as atomic data tokens and enable a frictionless creative data economy. are Bitcoin data tokens with the programmatic capabilities necessary to build the on-chain economy we have been seeking since the invention of Bitcoin.

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