Links
Caution: Do your own research and use these links at your own risk.
Wallets
Sparrow is a desktop Bitcoin wallet designed to provide as much detail as possible about your transactions and UTXOs (Unspent Transaction Outputs). While not designed to support Ordinals, Sparrow's advanced coin-control features make it a uniquely powerful tool enabling sat extraction, padding of Ordinals and more.
Xverse is a user-friendly Bitcoin wallet designed for managing BTC, Ordinals and BRC-20. Web3-enabled, it is integrated with an increasing number of websites facilitating login and purchasing. It also supports Stacks ($STX) as is required to register a .btc domain on btc.us. Xverse is available as a desktop browser extension and a mobile app. Xverse is a fork of Hiro.
Hiro is akin to Xverse as it lets you connect to apps and manage assets secured on Bitcoin and BTC L2s including the Stacks blockchain. Hiro is available as a desktop browser extension and a mobile app.
UniSat is many things, including a user-friendly wallet for your browser. UniSat is especially useful for handling BRC-20 on account of the wallet's integration with UniSat's leading marketplace for BRC-20.
Ledger hardware wallet can be used to store and manage ordinals.
Trustless Wallet is the reference wallet for Trustless Computer. The Trustless Computer protocol enables developers to build dApps and smart contracts that use the Trustless Computer network. This wallet is NOT appropriate for managing ordinals but instead it is used to trade its own type of NFTs traded on the TC network. Note: The private key availble for export from Trustless Wallet can be imported into UniSat to restore the BTC wallet provided by Trustless Wallet.
Marketplaces
Magic Eden is the premier Ordinals marketplace.
Binance NFT lets you click to view listed Bitcoin projects.
Ordinals.Market not only allows you to connect with Xverse to trade ordinals but also trade verified Emblem Vaults.
Generative is a marketplace for artists to make their Ordinals available for purchase. Generative supports Trustless Computer NFTS and uses MetaMask to authenticate the user.
Ordinals Wallet is a marketplace with an optional imbedded wallet. You can also connect with Xverse or UniSat to purchase or list Ordinals.
OrdSwap lets you connect with your ETH address by signing in MetaMask, while assigning you a BTC address used for handling BTC and ordinals.
Ultra Rares is currently waitlisted.
Ordinals Gateway is Coming Soon.
Inscription Services
LooksOrdinal provides an inexpensive option.
OrdinalsBot can inscribe onto vintage and uncommon sats.
UniSat is a great choice for inscribing Deploy, Mint and Transfer Ordinals for BRC-20. It allows facilitates inscribing images, text, .sats and more.
Gamma has a basic inscription feature along with tools to facilitate minting a collection and a related mint page. The basic inscription features supports text along with single and bulk image inscriptions.
OrdSwap supports inscribing images, text, BRC-20, ORC-20, .sats and more.
Generative allows artists inscribe and list 1/1s and collections.
Ordinal Explorers
Ordinals is the official site from the Ord team. When you run an Ord server, you are running a local copy of this exact same website.
Ordinals/Generative is a backup version of the Ordinals site which can be useful when Ordinals.com is having performance issues.
Best in Slot shows BRC-20 market cap and volume data.
Cursed Ordinals is a branch of Ordinals.com designed to explore Cursed Inscriptions.
OrdinalHub lets you discover, track and analyze ordinals.
Hiro: Ordinals includes an option to search by rarity (ex. Uncommon).
Ord95 allows you to search Ordinals with either a Ordinal ID or inscription number.
Ordinal.art includes a view of the first inscriptions ever created.
Sat Explorers
Sat Hunter Pro from Rare Satoshi Society
Sating.io scans a wallet address for rare and interesting sats.
OrdinalHub has a SatScanner that allows you to input a wallet address to scan for unique sats.
Blockchain Explorers
Transaction Accelerators
BitAccelerate is a free bitcoin transaction accelerator that allows you to get faster confirmations on your unconfirmed transactions.
Bitcoin Jumper allows you to speed up your BTC transaction with either a Free or Paid acceleration options.
Name Registrations
Sats Names is a standard for writing names to Bitcoin using Ordinals.
UniSat's search features enables you to confirm sats addresses have not previously been inscribed.
Best in Slot enables you to search on the inscription number of a .sats address. If the results include a blue check part, the domain is valid and verified as the first inscription for that name.
btc.us enables you to use $STX (Stacks) to claim a .btc domain like yourname.btc. These domains can be associated with an individual wallet address in Xverse or Hiro wallets.
BNS.xyz helps you establish the provenance of your BNS .btc domain name by inscribing it onto an Ordinal.
BTC Domains is attempting to improve upon the Stacks equivalent by offering .btc domain names that are inscribed as formatted JSON text directly on the Bitcoin mainnet, with each domain being a unique inscription.
Other
Ordinal Theory Handbook is the original guide to Ordinal Theory as introduced by Casey Rodarmor.
Ordinals.com lets you search for a sat name by placing the name at the end of the URL like: https://ordinals.com/sat/wenlambo. The same can be done with https://ordinals.com/block/78 to search for a specific block number.
UniSat can report the balance of BRC-20 in a provided address.
OrdinalsBot has a launchpad to mint an ordinals collection.
Emblem Vault facilitates the storage and exchange of Ordinals on the ETH mainnet. Ordinals can be wrapped inside an Emblem Vault that is traded on OpenSea like any ETH NFT. At any time, the owner of the Emblem Vault can open the vault and move the Ordinal to your Ordinal wallet.
Bitcoin Punks Emblem Vault Opensea Verifier can be used to make sure the inscription address matches the Emblem as a means to verify the validity before purchasing the ETH NFT.
Ordinals/ord on Github is the official code repository for the Ordinals project.
OrdAPI cointains a collection of API calls facilitated by its service.
Ordinals Metadata Composer helps you create JSON files to index your Ordinals collection as used by a marketplaces to tie a collection together under a collection name.
Off Topic
mdBook was used to create this document. It is a command line tool to create books with Markdown.
Visual Studio Code (with the Markdown All in One and Code Spell Checker extensions) is the code editor used to create the contents of this document.
Text-Image.com turns an image into ASCII art (text art) as may be useful to create low-cost images while testing inscriptions.