The highly-anticipated creator launchpad for Bitcoin Ordinals is set to debut on NFT marketplace Magic Eden, which will enable artists to inscribe their unique artworks on the Bitcoin [BTC] blockchain. As the platform continues to soar in popularity, Magic Eden accounted for a staggering 69% of the total Ordinals sales volume at press time. Interestingly, the marketplace also launched a secondary platform last month to list and sell Ordinals, but the launchpad will now serve as the primary sales platform for creators.
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Magic Eden embraces Ordinals
Ordinals are NFTs that can be minted directly onto the Bitcoin blockchain, as opposed to NFTs on Ethereum [ETH], which point to off-chain data and rely on token standards like ERC 721 to create a collection of tokens.
As part of the launchpad, the Magic Eden team will help creators in the inscription process.
While the fight between the two biggest players in the landscape, OpenSea and Blur, goes on, Magic Eden has quietly carved out a niche for itself as far as Bitcoin Ordinals were concerned.
Since the launch of the marketplace last month, its share of Ordinals sales volume has grown significantly. At the time of writing, Magic Eden was the undisputed leader with 69% of the market share.
Source: Dune
In terms of transactions, though, it was at a distant second position with 17% of the total number of Ordinals-based trades happening on Magic Eden.
Since the launch, Bitcoin Ordinals have taken the crypto world by storm. As per Dune, the total number of Ordinals inscriptions hit 955,138 at the time of writing. The figure reached an all-time high on 4 April when over 76,000 inscriptions were minted on a single day.
Source: Dune
User activity declines
Despite being a winner on the Ordinals front, Magic Eden had some issues to deal with. According to DappRadar data, the cumulative number of unique active wallets (UAW) on the marketplace declined 12% in the last 30 days. Over the last 24 hours as well, there was a fall of 7.9% at press time.
However, notwithstanding the dip observed of late, the number of transactions on the platform increased by 31% in the last 30 days.
Source: DappRadar
