According to Odaily Planet Daily, Leonidas, the developer of Ordinals and founder of the Runestone project, posted on the X platform that he did not hold ORDINALS•ARE•DEAD and did not mint ORDINALS•ARE•DEAD. However, he said that he liked the meme and that it was not pre-mined. Leonidas previously posted on the X platform to call for "ORDINALS•ARE•DEAD".