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A groundbreaking blockchain protocol called "Ethscriptions" has burst onto the scene, injecting fresh energy into Ethereum's NFT and digital asset landscape. Developed by Tom Lehman, co-founder of the music website Genius.com, who is widely known as "Middlemarch" in the crypto community, Ethscriptions promises to revolutionize Ethereum by providing a streamlined and further decentralized approach to minting digital assets.
Unveiled on June 17, Ethscriptions made an impressive debut, with an astonishing 30,000 creations recorded within the first 18 hours of its launch. Serving as Ethereum's counterpart to Bitcoin's Ordinals protocol, Ethscriptions harnesses Ethereum's "calldata" to offer a more efficient and cost-effective minting process compared to traditional smart contract-based methods. While the current version of the protocol supports image-only inscriptions, Middlemarch has confirmed that future updates will expand the compatibility to include a wider array of file types. However, size restrictions are in place, with images not exceeding 96 kilobytes for 'ethscribing.'
Middlemarch's inaugural project utilizing the Ethscriptions protocol, aptly named 'Ethereum Punks,' garnered immense enthusiasm from the community. All 10,000 assets were swiftly claimed, resulting in such a surge of activity that it temporarily overloaded the official Ethscriptions website's API interface.
Nevertheless, the future of Ethscriptions remains uncertain. Ethereum's network already facilitates NFT and digital asset creation, leading some to question whether Ethscriptions can replicate the success of Bitcoin's Ordinals protocol. The latter experienced a meteoric rise, going from zero to ten million inscriptions in just six months. This surge was attributed to users' newfound ability to mint various tokens on the Bitcoin network using the BRC-20 token standard, indicating a deep fascination with asset minting. Only time will tell if Ethscriptions can ignite similar enthusiasm within the Ethereum community.
