ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Arthur Hayes, co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX and current Chief Investment Officer of the private wealth office Maelstrom, announced the launch of his first NFT series Airheads using the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol.

ChainCatcher news, Ordinals developer Leonidas posted on social media that the Runestone protocol has begun its auction activity prior to the airdrop. Runestone is currently the largest ordinal inscription calculated by block size, with the highest bid in the auction reaching 0.26 BTC, approximately $17,261.61.It is reported that the proceeds from this auction will be used to pay the Bitcoin network fees for the Runestone airdrop, and will all go to Bitcoin miners. This project does not include team allocation or presale, and aims to treat all participants fairly through an open-source qualification algorithm, without favoring large holders.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the BRC-20 project Bitcoin Dogs based on the Ordinals protocol has announced the completion of a $3.1 million presale funding, with investor information not yet disclosed.It is reported that the project will launch a play-to-earn game based on a pet simulator.

According to ChainCatcher news reported by Decrypt, the games currently inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain by encrypted users through the Ordinals inscription protocol include: Super Nintendo Emulator Pizza Ninja; Pac-Man (Ordinals inscription number #189,058); Tetris (Ordinals inscription number #35,043,603); Doom (Ordinals inscription number #466); the text-based adventure game Zork (Ordinals inscription number #146); Snake (Ordinals inscription number #142).

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, during 332 transactions, an anonymous wallet address spent approximately 1.5 BTC (about $66,000) through the Ordinals protocol to write 8.93 MB of encrypted binary data onto the Bitcoin blockchain.Among them, the most expensive transaction had a single fee of several thousand dollars, while most transaction fees were close to $200. Since the data is encrypted, the specific information conveyed by this data cannot currently be deciphered.

ChainCatcher news, according to Dune Analytics data, the daily trading volume of the mainstream platform for Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions has risen to approximately $15.94 million yesterday, an increase of over 200% compared to the recent low of $4.94 million on November 26.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin protocol Ordinals' new chief maintainer Raph announced on Twitter that the Ordinals protocol has launched version 0.6.0, which implements the recognition of more types of inscriptions, including cursed inscriptions.Ord io co-founder Leonidas interpreted that before this version was launched, there were 70,000 invalid inscriptions, and after upgrading to 0.6.0, many previously invalid inscriptions can now be indexed by the Ordinals protocol as "cursed inscriptions." Normal inscriptions are assigned a positive number, while cursed inscriptions are assigned a negative number. The first cursed inscription was -1, and it is now -71,508.The protocol sets a block activation height that allows specific types of cursed inscriptions to be indexed as normal positive inscriptions. Although the numbers of positive inscriptions will never change, the numbers of negative inscriptions can and will change. If new special cases are discovered and new types of cursed inscriptions are added, existing cursed inscriptions will be re-indexed, and new cursed inscriptions will be inserted, which will lead to a shift in the numbering of negative inscriptions. (source link)