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March 8, 2023Companies & infrastructureLaunches & foundingswell supported

The BRC-20 token experiment begins

A pseudonymous developer deployed an experimental convention for fungible tokens using JSON inscriptions on Bitcoin.

BRC-20 state is interpreted by external indexers rather than by Bitcoin's consensus rules. Activity grew rapidly and contributed to higher fees, but implementations had to coordinate closely to avoid inconsistent balances.