Author: Insightnews

Preface

Before understanding these protocols, let’s first answer a question: Why is the BTC ecosystem suddenly being value-discovered?

There are two important technical updates to mention here. The first is the Segregated Witness upgrade in 2017, which is equivalent to expanding BTC’s block data from 1MB to 4MB, but the extended part can only be used to store signatures.

It was not until the end of 2021 that advanced scripts could be written in the Taproot upgrade SegWit for the first time, and complex data could be written on BTC. BTC has made great progress in programmability and scalability. Some protocols containing complex logic have begun to appear. The BTC ecosystem has finally begun the next milestone, which is the main opportunity for the ecological explosion in 2023.

Source: @0xleo0x @blockpunk2077

A quick overview of the BTC ecosystem

Tool Summary

Lightning Network (Taproot Assets)

Taproot asset browser: https://terminal.lightning.engineering/assets/mainnet/

Wallet (Little Bee): https://getalby.com3.

Nostr Assets Protocol official Twitter: https://twitter.com/NostrAssets

Nostr Assets Protocol Marketplace (official website): https://mainnet.nostrassets.com/#/marketplace/listing

Taproot Assets, BRC20 and ARC20 comparison: https://mirror.xyz/3plabs.eth/XmPeAXxcjovPN727ydyuRWBh4VI_U5VmmVANkum3AyY

Lightning Network full node configuration tutorial: https://twitter.com/ohxiyu/status/1717955186478780678

ordinals

Official website: https://ordinals.com

Official wallet: https://github.com/ordinals/ord/releases…UniSat (the wallet with the largest number of users + trading market): https://unisat.io

BRC-20 (Block Explorer) https://ordiscan.com:

idclub (the most complete proxy platform at present): https://idclub.io/brc20

Satosea (real-time casting inscriptions on the tracking chain, refund of handling fees if failed) https://looksordinal.com/index.html

geniidata (can capture the real-time minting of hot inscriptions and NFTs): https://geniidata.com/ordinals/home

Check BRC-20 token price, circulation and total market value: https://btctool.pro/brc-20, https://brc-20.io, https://ordspace.org/brc20

BRC-20 data analysis: https://dune.com/dgtl_assets/bitcoin-ordinals-analysis

NFT trading market: https://magiceden.io/ordinals, https://ordinalswallet.com/collect

Atomicals

Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/atomicalsxyz

Atomicals Wallet：https://atomicalswallet.com

Wallet supporting website (can transfer NFT and Realm in batches): https://wizz.cash

Atomicals Market (trading market, supports the minting of protocol assets and browsing of the latest minted assets): https://atomicalmarket.com

Trading market SatsX (classification and trading functions are not yet complete):

Atomicals Protocol Whitepaper: https://docs.atomicals.xyz https://satsx.io

Data dashboard (statistics of daily minting volume of Atomicals and Ordinals protocols, and divided the minting statistics of different assets on Atomicals): https://dune.com/0xmatsu0x/atomicals-vs-ordinals

PIPE

Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/PipeBtc

inscrib3 (the first tool station that supports casting): https://pipe.inscrib3.land

Ppline (a simple marketplace): https://ppline.app