The overall market capitalization of the top 10 Bitcoin-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs), consisting of Ordinals and Runes, has surged to $1.03 billion, with an average daily trading volume of 225 in May 2024. It amounted to ten thousand dollars. CoinGecko. This increase highlights the growing influence within the Web3 ecosystem.
Market Leaders: NodeMonkes, Bitcoin Puppets, and Runestone
Leading the way are collections such as NodeMonkes with a market capitalization of $198.25 million (2,880 BTC), Bitcoin Puppets with $144.12 million (1,815 BTC), and Runestone with $87.85 million (1,124 BTC). These collections have seen significant sales volumes, with NodeMonkes and Bitcoin Puppets recording average daily trading volumes of $520,000 and $510,000, respectively, as of May 2024.
User Adoption Trends
In terms of user adoption, Bitcoin Puppets saw a 15.3% monthly increase in unique holders from January to May 2024, growing from 3,800 to 6,7000 holders. Similarly, NodeMonkes grew its unique holders by 10.1% from 3,800 to 5,600 over the same period. Runestone has also seen a significant number of unique holders, totaling 77,000 as of May 2024, the largest figure among its parent collections.
Global interests and financial interests
Interest in Ordinals has skyrocketed globally, with searches for “Ordinals” on Google peaking in April 2024. This is a 58% increase since January 2024. Searches for “Bitcoin NFT” also hit an all-time high in March 2024. Despite falling behind Ethereum and Solana, Ronin’s growing interest from buyers in terms of sales volume suggests that there is potential for increased user adoption on the Bitcoin network.
Early adopters reaped significant financial benefits. For example, participants in NodeMonkes’ Dutch auction-style mint could see a 426% return if they compare the opening price of 0.21 BTC to the project’s all-time high of 0.895 BTC, and a 38% return if they compare the average sale price of 0.29. there is. BTC.
A brief history of ordinal numbers and runes
Ordinals, launched by engineer Casey Rodarmor in January 2023, differ from traditional NFTs in that all data is recorded directly on the chain, making them similar to digital artifacts. As Ordinals gained popularity, an anonymous developer created the BRC-20 token standard, which Rodarmor later refined into Runes. Loon optimizes and reuses these dormant UTXOs to increase efficiency and reduce network congestion, solving the problem of excessive UTXOs (unspent transaction output).
Rune presents new opportunities for scalability and user experience on the Bitcoin network and could potentially lead to innovative decentralized applications (DApps) and tokenized assets.
Getting started with ordinal numbers and runes
For those interested in exploring ordinals and runes, CoinGecko provides detailed guides and lists of popular NFT projects built on the Bitcoin network.
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The study analyzed data on CoinGecko’s top 10 Bitcoin-based NFT collections as of May 26, 2024, and Google Trends data as of May 31, 2024. Top collections include NodeMonkes, Bitcoin Puppets, Rune Pups, and Ordinal Maxi Biz. , RSIC Metaprotocol, Bitcoin Frogs, Runestone, Prometheans, Natcats and Pizza Ninjas.
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