Bored Ape creators unveil Bitcoin Ordinals assortment “TwelveFold”

Yuga Labs will launch a collection of inventive cryptocollectibles on Bitcoin’s Ordinals protocol, in response to an announcement from the corporate on Feb. 27.

The gathering is titled TwelveFold and can characteristic 300 items of generative artwork — that’s, photos which were created by way of the usage of algorithms.

Every picture within the TwelveFold assortment is designed round a 12-by-12 grid in reference to the generally used base-12 timekeeping system — and in reference to the truth that Bitcoin Ordinals are recognized by the point that they’re minted.

Yuga Labs didn’t announce a particular time or date for the public sale. As a substitute, it stated that it’ll announce the public sale inside 24 hours of the occasion.

Yuga Labs is finest identified for its Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC) assortment of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), that are minted on Ethereum. The corporate distanced TwelveFold from BAYC by calling the brand new assortment a “departure from what’s anticipated” and by stating that the objects is not going to have any use with different Yuga Labs tasks.

The gathering is notable as one of many first Ordinals collections, arriving simply weeks after Casey Rodarmor launched Bitcoin Ordinals on Jan. 21. Ordinals are just like NFTs in that they include media. Nonetheless, Ordinals are minted on Bitcoin as a substitute of Ethereum and associated networks, and so they retailer all knowledge on-chain as a substitute of in a linked file.

In response to knowledge from Dune Analytics, greater than 202,800 Ordinals have been minted on the Bitcoin blockchain as of Feb. 27.