A new daily all-time high has been recorded for the number of Ordinals inscribed on the Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>) network due to a recently launched \u201ctoken standard\u201d for the blockchain.<\/p>\n Bitcoin Ordinals reached 58,179 inscriptions on April 2, smashing the previous all-time high of 31,692 on March 9 by 83.5%,\u00a0according<\/a> to Dune Analytics data.<\/p>\n The surge is believed to be driven by the recent creation of \u201cBitcoin Request for Comment\u201d (BRC-20) tokens on the Ordinals protocol by a pseudonymous on-chain analyst named Domo<\/a> in early March.<\/p>\n While Ordinals are nonfungible token (NFT)-like \u201cdigital artifacts\u201d which carry data in the form of text, JPEG images, PDFs, video and audio formats<\/a> on the Bitcoin network, the BRC-20 token standard utilizes Ordinal inscriptions to deploy token contracts, mint tokens, and transfer tokens \u2014 similar to Ethereum\u2019s ERC-20 token standard.<\/p>\n Yes. The spike has been primarily caused by the uptick in interest around BRC-20.<\/p>\n \u2014 Leonidas.og (@LeonidasNFT) April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The arrival of Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens on Bitcoin were enabled by the Taproot soft fork,<\/a> which took effect on Nov. 14, 2021.<\/p>\n Over 55,000 of the inscriptions on April 2 came in the form of text-based Ordinals, many of which were represented by BRC-20 tokens, according<\/a> to \u201cLeonidis.og,\u201d the host of an Ordinals-focused podcast.<\/p>\n Leonidis explained<\/a> in a tweet that the spike on April 2 came on the back of new tools used to interact with BRC-20 tokens launched in the last few days.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a lot of excitement around BRC-20 when it launched a month ago but eventually the hyped died down. During the lull, devs built tools to make interacting with BRC-20 much easier and now we’re seeing ATH interest. I’ve said it before and I will say it again. UX matters!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Among those new tools include Ord.io, UniSat Wallet and BRC-20.io. According<\/a> to BRC-20.io, 1,600 tokens have been created since the BRC-20 standard was created.<\/p>\n Among the most popular BRC-20 tokens include \u201cpepe,\u201d \u201cordi,\u201d and \u201cpunk,\u201d currently boasting respective market caps of $2.5 million, $2.1 million and $900,000.<\/p>\n Related: <\/em><\/strong>Bitcoin Ordinals creator looks for fix after first instance of shock porn <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Over 42,700 BRC\u201320 tokens have been minted in the last 24 hours, mostly coming from the tokens wzrd, domo, BAYC, meme and pups.<\/p>\n While the market cap of BRC-20 tokens currently sits at less than $10 million, digital asset investment firm Galaxy Digital believes the \u201cBitcoin NFT\u201d market may reach $4.5 billion by 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n Members of the Bitcoin community are still split <\/a>on whether Ordinals is a good fit for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Proponents such as Dan Held suggest it offers more financial use cases on Bitcoin, while others say it\u2019s straying away from Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s vision of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer cash system. <\/p>\n Magazine: <\/em><\/strong>4 out of 10 NFT sales are fake: Learn to spot the signs of wash trading<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2023-04\/5ec0c239-94ab-41b0-8d89-11d948d17b1e.png\" "\\"\\"")
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