10/07/2023
💰 Bitcoin Ordinals volume hits $210M in Q2 — DappRadar
— The advent of Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions led to more than $210 million in trading volume in the first half of 2023.
📊 The creation of Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain has led to over $210 million in trading volume, according to the latest quarterly report from DappRadar.
➡️ The data, which has been independently verified by Cointelegraph, shows that Bitcoin Ordinals’ booming popularity led to a sharp increase in trading volume through the second quarter of 2023.
📈 Bitcoin Ordinal trading volume increased from $7.18 million in the first quarter of the year to $210.7 million by the end of June. DappRadar pins the quarterly increase at 2834%.
➡️ The report also notes that all-time Ordinals trades amounted to over 550,000 in Q2, with some 150,000 unique traders contributing to the inflated trading volume midway through 2023.
➡️ A Dune blockchain analytics dashboard reflecting several Bitcoin Ordinals marketplace metrics from the user, domo, also shows that unique users increased sharply from May 2023. UniSat, an open-source Chrome browser extension for Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens, Magic Eden and Ordinals Wallet account for the majority of unique users by marketplace.
➡️ The popularity of Bitcoin Ordinals has had an interesting effect on the nonfungible token (NFT) landscape. Near the end of May 2023, Bitcoin surpassed Solana to become the second-most popular NFT blockchain, leaving the preeminent cryptocurrency blockchain only behind Ethereum in NFT trading volumes.