I highly believe in the future of colored coins, but I have also thought deeply about a question: If colored coins really become a global mainstream asset one day, will the standard everyone adopts definitely be ARC20?
Finally, I chose to believe.
Colored coins are an asset form that is rooted in the history of Bitcoin and deeply aligned with Bitcoin culture.
“ColoredCoin” only has a story under the interpretation of “Colored Bitcoin”. Other asset forms do not necessarily have to go through Bitcoin again, but colored coins are different. They were born from Bitcoin and can only grow beyond Bitcoin.
With such a top-level Bitcoin native narrative, I believe that in addition to ARC20, there will be countless other attempts to realize colored coins in the world. Maybe there have always been, but they are too small to be noticed.
But no matter who it is, it cannot have the unique timing and location of ARC20.
Only in the Bitcoin environment of this year, Atomicals, which was born at the same time as Ordinals, BRC20, Runes, BitVm, RGB and a number of Layer2 concepts, has the OG status of the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Why?
Because of Atomicals' first-mover advantage, it was unanimously recognized by leading platforms in the wave of asset issuance and was widely adopted by infrastructure in the first year of the Bitcoin ecosystem explosion.
Mainstream Bitcoin wallets such as Unisat, OKX Web3, Wizz, and Binance Web3 fully support Atomicals;
Top 2 exchanges have their own wallets that open ARC-20 markets separately;
Ecology has had popularity, fame, and funding;
Even if everything "ebbs", Atomicals still has countless project parties and Devs building for it.
The colored coins here have entered thousands of households at the right time. When people talk about colored coins again, ARC-20 seems to always be the only choice.
All latecomers will no longer be “First”.
One year, three years, five years ago, when people searched for “colored coins” on Google, all that came out were beautiful visions of Bitcoin’s early days, and a series of quotations copied from one another, revealing the thoughts and hopes of several early evangelists.
What about today? Guess what — when you search for “dyed coins” in Chinese, ARC20 will pop up.
In the next 1, 3, or 5 years, how many people will gradually learn about ARC-20 and begin to recognize and adopt colored coins?
At the right time, the Atomic Protocol created the culmination of the narrative of the past decade. Colored coins will eventually win a victory for Bitcoin in terms of asset discourse power, and the victory of colored coins will also be the victory of ARC-20.
I still choose to forget all the fancy narratives that are dazzling and embrace colored coins and Bitcoin in the "garbage time" of the overall environment.
If you also choose to believe in the Bitcoin ecosystem, you are welcome to vote for ARC-20.