Developers launch NFT conversion feature from Ethereum to Bitcoin
The new mechanism can also be used to conduct airdrops
30.05.2023 - 10:45
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What’s new? The Ordinals Market, in collaboration with the developers of the MiladyNFT collection, has announced the launch of the BRC-721E standard, as well as a bridge for moving non-fungible tokens from the Ethereum blockchain to the bitcoin network. The bridge allows users to convert ERC-721 standard assets into Ordinals, while automatically placing collections on the marketplace. The new standard encodes data directly into a transaction that assigns an address to receive an NFT and dynamically collects all metadata. The mechanism can also be used to perform airdrops.
Time for a brand new protocol.👉 Permissionless bridging from ETH to BTC👉 Instantly listed on marketplaces once inscribed👉 Cost efficient for large collections👉 From the minds of @OrdinalsMarket_ and @BitcoinMiladysIntroducing BRC-721E 🥝🧵 pic.twitter.com/J50MagEVi3
— kiwidream.eth (@kiwi_dream) May 29, 2023
The BRC-20 standard and the Ordinals protocol allow Bitcoin-based fungible and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to be issued. With Ordinals, launched in early 2023, one can tie data/digital assets/NFTs to satoshi, the smallest fractional part of BTC (0,00000001 part of the coin). Bitcoin-NFTs are also called inscriptions.
What happened before? On May 18, the daily trading volume of the Bitcoin Frogs NFT collection on the Bitcoin network amounted to $2,23 million, with more than 600 transactions made with the assets.
Later, former MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor noted that the first instances of the BRC-20 standard could be seen as the issuance of unregistered securities. In this, he assessed Ordinals as a positive phenomenon on the Bitcoin network.
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On May 25, the US company Stably launched the Stably USD stablecoin based on the BRC-20 standard and the Ordinals protocol on the Bitcoin network. The asset with the symbol #USD is backed by the US dollar at a 1:1 ratio, its reserves are deposited with a regulated US bank and will be audited monthly by a third-party company.
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