Bitcoin Ordinals NFTs Ranked by Highest Inscription
Ordinals is a new protocol built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, to enable NFTs to be inscribed on the biggest cryptocurrency ecosystem in the world. Ordinals have a unique rarity attribute: the inscription hight – this is the block height at which the NFT was inscribed onto the Bitcoin blockchain, the lower the inscription height the rarer the NFT is considered to be. There is currently a gold rush to produce and own the earliest NFTs on Bitcoin, this list ranks Ordinal NFT collections from earliest to latest.
1. Bitcoin Rocks
Highest Inscription: #161
Total Supply: 100
Bitcoin Rocks have been inscribed to the Bitcoin Blockchain by RockToshi a self proclaimed ordinal theorist. This is the first full collection inscribed to Bitcoin Blockchain, the sales have been paused, and the remaining Bitcoin rocks will be sold by auction. This collection has already reached parity with ETH Rocks – the last sale being an ETH Rock traded for a Bitcoin Rock.
2. Ordinal Punks
Highest Inscription: #642
Total Supply: 100
Ordinal Punks are a homage to Crypto Punks, one of the original Ethereum NFT collections. The art work was generated using the PunksNotDead opensource algorithm. Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT holders have been burning their NFTs in exchange for Ordinal Punks.
3. Cyber Pepes
Highest Inscription: #943
Total Supply: 10
Cyber Pepes have been inscribed to the Bitcoin Blockchain by the software engineer Jason Rosenstein. Cyber Pepes are an iteration on the popular Pepe, the main character from the widely circulated sad frog memes.
4. Planetary Ordinals
Highest Inscription: #1103
Total Supply: 69
Planetary Ordinals NFTs have been awarded to participants in a crowd funding campaign raising money to build the first Bitcoin Ordinal focused wallet. Ordinal Bulls are the second collection released as part of this crowd funded wallet.
5. Bitcoin Punks
Highest Inscription: #1289
Total Supply: 100
Bitcoin Punks are the first punk focused NFT collection inscribed on the Bitcoin Blockchain with original punk art work. This collection has no affiliation with Crypto Punks or Larvalabs. This collection features one special character, the dog associated with Dogecoin.
6. Rare Scrilla Sounds
Highest Inscription: #1505
Total Supply: 12
Rare Scrilla Sounds is the only Ordinals NFT collection inscribed under 10,000 inscription height which is focused on audio. This Ordinals collections is an extension of the Grand Rising music NFT on the Ethereum Blockchain.
7. Ordrothkos
Highest Inscription: #1971
Total Supply: 21
Ordrothkos is a fine art collection inscribed to the Bitcoin Blockchain with an extremely limited supply, the smallest collection supply inscribed under 10,000 inscriptions. This is also the only Ordinals NFT collection inscribed under 10,000 inscriptions with GIF animation.
8. Inscribed Pepes
Highest Inscription: #2189
Total Supply: 69
This collection consists of pixelated artwork showing Pepe the original sad frog meme character in many different outfits. Owners of these Ordinals are already creating extended content featuring the Pepes NFTs from this collection.
9. BlockMunchers
Highest Inscription: #2405
Total Supply: 50
Block Munchers is the first Ordinals NFT collection inscribed to the Bitcoin Blockchain with 3D art. This collection is based on the theme that Ordinals NFTs are going to consume increasing amounts of space of Bitcoin blocks mined.
10. Ordinal Penguins
Highest Inscription: #3646
Total Supply: 100
Ordinal Penguins was one of the fast selling Ordinals NFTs inscribed to the Bitcoin Blockchain. This collection is inspired by the Pudgy Penguins NFT collection on Ethereum, however there is no official affiliation. This collection currently has the most P2P secondary transactions.