Inscriptions
countInscriptions revealed in the last complete UTC day, counted by the Ordinals protocol's rules.
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Bitcoin Ordinals, Runes and BRC-20 Activity
How many Ordinals inscriptions and Runes transactions happen on Bitcoin each day?
Ordinals inscriptions, Runes activity and BRC-20 operations on Bitcoin each day, with the fees they paid and the block space they used.
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Blueprint
What the dashboard will show.
The dashboard as it will open in Vantage. Each figure is named here and arrives with its receipt; until its data is published, its place stays empty.
Last day
The last complete day's inscriptions, Runes and BRC-20 activity and their fees.
Runes transactions
countTransactions carrying a runestone in the same day: etchings, mints and transfers.
BRC-20 operations
countBRC-20 deploy, mint and transfer inscriptions in the same day.
Share of all fees
%Fees paid by inscription, runes and BRC-20 transactions as a share of all fees that day.
Inscriptions by content type
countThe day's inscriptions by content type, such as text, image or JSON, from the envelope's content-type field.
Runestones by operation
countThe day's runestones by operation: etchings, mints, transfers and cenotaphs.
History
Daily activity and its share of fees and block space since inscriptions began.
Inscriptions to date
countInscriptions revealed since the first one, counted by the protocol's rules.
Share of block space, 30 days
%The weight of inscription, runes and BRC-20 transactions as a share of all block weight over the last 30 days.
Activity by protocol
countTransactions per day by protocol over the selected period.
Fees paid by protocol
BTCFees paid per day by each protocol's transactions over the selected period, beside all other fees.
- Protocol
- Ordinals inscriptions, Runes or BRC-20
- Period
- Last 30 days, last year or since 2023
About
What it answers, and for whom.
Ordinals inscriptions and Runes transactions are counted here for every day on Bitcoin, read from the transactions themselves: inscriptions from the envelopes in taproot witness data, Runes from runestones in OP_RETURN outputs and BRC-20 from inscriptions that carry its JSON. Each is shown with the fees it paid and the share of block space it used.
These protocols live inside ordinary Bitcoin transactions, so their activity shows up in fees, block weight and the mempool. Waves of inscriptions or rune mints have filled blocks for days at a time, which makes their share of fees and block space a useful read on what drives Bitcoin's fee market. The counts follow each protocol's published parsing rules, named beside every figure.
Method
How it will be measured.
Every figure will be read at a block, kept with its source and its exact read, and open a receipt anyone can re-check.
How receipts work →- Inscriptions are counted from reveal transactions whose taproot script-path witness holds an envelope (OP_FALSE OP_IF with the ord tag), following the Ordinals protocol's parsing rules.
- Runes activity is read from runestones, outputs that begin with OP_RETURN followed by OP_13, decoded into etchings, mints and transfers; malformed runestones are counted as cenotaphs.
- BRC-20 operations are inscriptions with a JSON body whose p field is brc-20, split into deploy, mint and transfer by the op field.
- Fees are each transaction's inputs minus its outputs, read with getblock verbosity 3, counted for both the commit and the reveal of an inscription; block space is their weight as a share of the day's total.
The data it needs
Read from chain state and history
- bitcoin_inscriptions_dailyTo buildOrdinals, runes and BRC-20Inscriptions, rune etchings and mints, BRC-20 transfers, and the fees they paid per day.
- bitcoin_network_dailyTo buildBitcoin network by dayBlocks, hashrate implied by difficulty, difficulty, fees, transaction counts, block weight and miner revenue (subsidy plus fees) per day.
- chain_fees_dailyTo buildFees and gas by chainFees paid per chain per day in the native token: base fee and priority fee percentiles, total fees, and the share burned where the chain burns fees.
- Taproot script-path witnesses holding an ord envelope, per reveal transaction
- OP_RETURN outputs beginning with OP_13, decoded as runestones
- Inscriptions with a JSON body whose p field is brc-20
- Fees and weight per transaction from getblock verbosity 3, for commit and reveal transactions
Questions
Questions people ask.
What are Bitcoin Ordinals?
A protocol that numbers individual satoshis and lets data such as images or text be inscribed onto them in the witness of a taproot transaction. Each inscription is tied to a satoshi and moves with it, which is how Ordinals work as NFTs on Bitcoin.
What are Bitcoin Runes?
A fungible token protocol on Bitcoin, launched at the 2024 halving block, that records etchings, mints and transfers in OP_RETURN outputs called runestones. Rune balances live in UTXOs, so tokens move with ordinary Bitcoin outputs.
What is the difference between Runes and BRC-20?
BRC-20 tokens are inscriptions carrying JSON that indexers interpret, so each mint or transfer needs its own inscription. Runes use compact OP_RETURN data and assign balances to outputs directly, which takes less block space per operation.
Do inscriptions raise Bitcoin fees?
They compete for the same block space as payments. When a wave of inscriptions or mints arrives, more is waiting than fits and fee rates rise for everyone. The dashboard shows their share of fees and block weight each day, so the effect can be measured.
Why are inscriptions cheap compared with other data on Bitcoin?
Witness data weighs a quarter as much as other transaction data under SegWit, and tapscript sets no script size limit beyond the block's own weight limit. Large inscriptions therefore fit in a single transaction at the witness discount.
- Inscription
- Data written into the witness of a taproot transaction and assigned, by the Ordinals protocol, to a specific satoshi.
- Runestone
- An OP_RETURN output beginning with OP_13 that carries Runes instructions: an etching, a mint or transfers.
- Etching
- The creation of a new rune, which sets its name, divisibility, symbol and supply terms.
- Commit and reveal
- The two transactions behind an inscription: the commit creates a taproot output that commits to the data, and the reveal spends it, publishing the data in the witness.
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