🧡 Celebrating 1 Year of The Ordinals Club and The Ordinal War 🧡
As a formidable team on Ethereum, we officially launched the Ordinals division with
@PGodjira's
'The Ordinals Club' on February 15, 2023.
Our ambition to establish a project on Bitcoin had already taken root by February 6, 2023. Venturing into NFTs on Bitcoin was an obvious choice, given Bitcoin's status as the gold standard of crypto.
Introducing assets like NFTs/Ordinals could enhance utilization and drive advanced development of the Bitcoin blockchain. Our main challenge was ensuring that this initiative would not lead to a devaluation of Godjira's Ethereum assets.
The journey began with DeadJiras, aiming to create a collection smaller than Godjiras Gen 1 (333) but with a unique twist: portraying them as Skull-Skeleton Godjiras, including new traits under the theme of "memento mori" – a Latin phrase meaning "Remember you must die."
Our goal was to achieve sub-20k for the 107 DeadJiras, yet despite technical challenges, we managed to reach sub-60k. However, we quickly realized the difficulty small communities face in achieving significant impact over time. This led us to focus on creating 4,000 The Ordinal War passes (partially) sub-100k.
Why? In February, the Ordinal space was fraught with uncertainty, with trades occurring through Google Sheets, rampant scams, and a lack of willingness to dox.
'The Ordinal War' aimed to:
1. Serve as a collectible artwork depicting the looming war between ETH and BTC, showcasing famous ETH projects on one side and their skeletal BTC counterparts on the other – humorously mirroring the actual competitive dynamics observed in NFT volumes between ETH and Bitcoin.
2. Provide a secure platform with doxxed partners, especially for low inscriptions.
3. Offer newcomers to Ordinals a comprehensive introduction to the BTC ecosystem.
We believe we have successfully met these objectives. The Ordinal War passes, initially minted on Ethereum, sold out within 5 minutes.
Our journey featured remarkable milestones:
🟧Hosting one of the first major platforms for Ordinals guidance with
@nullish on February 20, before his well-deserved fame, including an AMA with Distortion Genesis giveaways.
🟧Our first major giveaway on March 1, with
@MegaPunks spots - not even fully claimed by TOW holders-, leading to significant secondary market success.
🟧Serving as the launchpad for
@fomojis Gen 1 sub-25k by
@SanjFomojis on February 23, recognizing Sanji's potential and addressing the challenge of generating attention in the early stages of the Ordinals space. This way TOC was able to offer amazing Fomo Gen 1 spots to its holders (current value: 0.4 BTC)
🟧Launching OGLingo sub-15k exclusively for our holders on March 14.
🟧Announcing DeadJiras sub-60k with great anticipation on March 29.
🟧DeadJiras selling out in record time on April 6, maintaining a value quadruple the mint price.
🟧Displaying DeadJiras at the Ordinal Art Gallery during BTC Week Miami on May 10, alongside top-tier Ordinal projects.
🟧Announcing and launching our BRC20
$BTOC on May 28 and June 15, marking one of the biggest cross-chain events in Ordinals and onboarding a significant number of new accounts on Xverse.
🟧Bridging TOW ETH to TOW Ordinals on July 4, allowing TOW holders to transition from their ETH placeholders.
🟧Forming a partnership with
@PANZNEXTGEN on July 10, boosting both communities and increasing value.
🟧Opening
$BTOC as a deposit option for
@playebit-casino on July 10.
🟧Announcing the launchpad for sub10k
@SatoshiSneks exclusively for BTOC, TOW Holders, and DeadJira holders on November 10 – a significant success offering our community the coveted sub10k Ordinals.
🟧Listing DeadJiras on
@LiquidiumFi and partnering with @Maxis_gg on November 23 and 24.
🟧Announcing the Bearz Club, an original art PFP collection of the Ordinals Club inscribed sub-90k, obtainable only with
$BTOC raffle tickets on November 29.
🟧Conducting a huge
@ordinalrugs $RUG Snapshot for all TOW and DeadJira holders on December 7.
🟧Announcing the closure of the Bridge on December 19 - which will happen today.
On top:
TOC pioneered Bitmap calls, numerous L1 and L2 initiatives and Ordinal calls - plenty experiencing remarkable success.
DeadJira Holders had IDO opportunities with:
Unify, Life Beyond, Midnight Society, Shrapnel,
Dark.city, Darewise, BlockGames, Panz Gen 1 at a significant discount, among the biggest Panz Gen 2 Presale opportunities, and many more - especially the upcoming ones for 2024. 👀
Special whitelist giveaways included:
OrdinalGeese, MegaPunks, Bitcoin JPEGS sub-5k, Kubz Ordinals, Fomojis Gen 1, LlaMaz sub-12k, StarSymphony, OGLINGO sub-15k,
$ZBIT,
$OXBT,
$MXRC, BitcoinBearsOrd Cubs, Giants Planet , BitcoinWhales, wizardzBTC, OrdiBots, Shroomboys, GrapeCoin, The Golden Ratio by Harto, darkcity, Poglin, Fomojis Gen 2, Metablends, NodeWizards, PlanetaryPrimes, ArtinalsBTC, Cypherprints, Pepentinos, culture pods by BitcoinWhales, TheBlocks, BitcoinBoos, Farcana Ordinals, Blocks by MatricaLabs, OrdinalsNexus, OpalBTC, Quantum Cats, Flora Forms, 0n1Force , Inkonbtc
This journey would not have been possible without the contributions of many, including
@shanicucic96,
@jamkaa_mgl,
@ImGroot66, @shin_raton,
@MPL46,
@ryuk_nl,
@BronievBit, @forsure_madix,
@ordinalHO,
@Nikola_kingo,
@0xBashe, @DegenSmoke420, @shoesthieft and others.
Thank you all, and let's make 2024 even more remarkable.