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In 2018, Ethereum lead developer Fabian Vogelsteller contacted the community for a new standard for smart contracts he created alongside co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Dubbed ERC-20, Vogelsteller, at the time, only wished for input regarding the novel idea. Little did he know that ERC-20 would ignite a wave of initial coin
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On June 21, self-custody wallet provider BitKeep announced support for BRC-20 tokens issued on the Bitcoin network. With the feature, users can view, rank and transfer BRC-20 tokens and nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Developers also stated BRC-20 in-wallet swaps are coming “in [the] future." Last month, cryptocurrency exchange OKX also announced support
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied OKX, a leading web3 company, has proposed the industry-first BRC-30 token standard, which enables users to stake BRC-20 tokens and bitcoin, allowing them to earn BRC-30 tokens. This open-source protocol, combined with OKX Wallet’s support, offers
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied While PEPE is dominating headlines, the meme token is nowhere close to the performance of other BRC-20-compliant assets that have been tracking higher, posting impressive gains in the last week of trading. PEPE trails emerging BRC-20 tokens According
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Over the past four days, there has been a surge in Ordinal inscriptions, and as a result, the BRC20 token economy has experienced significant growth with over 10,000 additional coins. The current value of the BRC20 token economy now stands at $497.75 million, comprising a total of 24,677 distinct tokens.
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Bitcoin (BTC) users have been given a possibly more efficient way to mint new assets on the blockchain aft an updated edition of the recently-rebranded Taproot Assets Protocol was released by Lightning Labs.In a May 16 blog post, Lightning Network infrastructure firm Lighting Labs criticized the current methods by which
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On Tuesday, the crypto firm Okx announced the launch of a new Ordinals marketplace. The platform is accessible via the Okx Wallet and will enable users to mint and trade Ordinal inscriptions and BRC20 tokens. While the Ordinals marketplace is still in its early stages, users can take advantage of
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The latest hype around Bitcoin (BTC) Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens is unsustainable and will fade away in a matter of months, according to JAN3 CEO Samson Mow. “These guys are basically paying massive amounts of fees that go directly to Bitcoin miners, and there is no way this can be sustained,"
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Still, the core problem here is not that Bitcoin is being used to represent frog images per se, but that its value as an efficient, intermediary-free settlement system for transferring value of all kinds is undermined by blockspace congestion. (As CoinDesk columnist David Z. Morris wrote this week, Bitcoin would
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Despite the broader crypto-economy experiencing a downward trajectory, dropping 1.59% in the past 24 hours and hovering around $1.11 trillion, the BRC20 token economy has bucked this trend, expanding from $279 million to over $427 million within five days. Impervious to Market Slump, BRC20 Tokens Defy the Odds Built atop the Bitcoin
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