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New Protocol Aims to Cut Bitcoin NFT Costs by 90%

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In Brief

  • The Bitcoin BRC-69 standard by Luminex aims to reduce Bitcoin NFTs costs by 90% using recursive Ordinals.
  • BRC-69 allows the creation of new NFTs using existing on-chain data, overcoming Bitcoin's 4MB block size constraint.
  • Will BRC-69 solve challenges with NFTs on Bitcoin, including high transaction fees and network congestion?
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The Bitcoin BRC-69 standard by the Luminex launchpad claims to be the revolutionary standard for creating recursive Ordinals. Can it reduce the cost of Bitcoin non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by 90%?

This year the Bitcoin Ordinals took the market by storm. In the simplest terms, it enables NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain by inscribing data on the smallest unit of Bitcoin, i.e., Satoshis. But there were certain challenges of scalability and transaction fees on Bitcoin NFTs.

BRC-69, a New Standard For Recursive Ordinals

On Monday, the Bitcoin Ordinals launchpad, Luminex, introduced a new standard, BRC-69, that would allow the creation of recursive Ordinals. The recursive Ordinals enable the utilization of the existing on-chain data on the Bitcoin network for new inscriptions.

Learn more about Bitcoin NFTs here.

While inscriptions cannot communicate with the data on other sats, recursive inscriptions can request the content of other inscriptions and leverage it to render new NFTs. This feature would allow Bitcoin to overcome its 4 megabytes (MB) block size constraint.

A Twitter user, Leonidas, explained:

“Rather than inscribing 10,000 JPEG files for a PFP collection individually which would be quite expensive, you could inscribe the 200 traits from the collection and then make 10,000 more inscriptions that each use a small amount of code to request traits and programmatically render the image. The result is the same. The art is just stored on-chain in a much more efficient way which could have saved over a million dollars in transaction fees.”

Bitcoin NFT Cost Reduced by 90%?

Talking about BRC-69, the project claims that it could reduce the cost of inscriptions for Ordinal collections by over 90% through a four-step process:

  1. Inscribe traits
  2. Deploy collection
  3. Compile collection
  4. Mint assets

Luminex explained:

“The brilliance of BRC69 lies in its simplicity. Minters only need to inscribe a single line of text instead of a full image. This text allows the final image to be automatically rendered on all ordinals-frontends,using solely on-chain resources, thanks to recursive inscriptions.”

Moreover, the BRC-69 standard would also offer features such as on-chain pre-reveal for NFT collections.

Bitcoin Ordinals quickly rose to popularity this year. On May 30, BeInCrypto reported that Bitcoin Ordinal inscriptions hit a 10 million milestone. 

But the users also realized some challenges with launching NFTs on Bitcoin as the average transaction fees shot up to over $19. The Bitcoin network was also congested with the BRC-20 meme coin craze.

Read our guide explaining Bitcoin transaction fees here.

If the claims of the BRC-69 are proven true, it can indeed solve the pain point of Bitcoin Ordinal enthusiasts. 

However, as it is a fresh proposal, the claims are not tried and tested yet. Even Bitcoin Ordinals, in general, is a relatively new idea yet to prove itself against the test of time.

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Harsh Notariya
Harsh Notariya is an Editorial Standards Lead at BeInCrypto, who also writes about various topics, including decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), tokenization, crypto airdrops, decentralized finance (DeFi), meme coins, and altcoins. Before joining BeInCrypto, he was a community consultant at Totality Corp, specializing in the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Additionally, Harsh was a blockchain content writer and researcher at Financial Funda, where he created...
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