Ordinals are on the rise again following a recent boom in Bitcoin art from on-chain creators like Harto, Rutherford Chang, OTO, and many more. Here are our top picks for BTC ordinals.
Summary
- BTC Ordinals have soared 103% in trading volume and 891% in sales.
- Traders are asking for recommendations to BTC Ordinals art projects following the recent rise in popularity.
It’s not just the BTC (BTC) token that has been on the rise. Bitcoin Art on-chain has been seeing massive action in the past few days in the lead-up to a rally-filled month as creators’ works soar on the NFT marketplace leaderboards.
According to data on Magic Eden, the trading volume for ordinals on the BTC market has soared by 103% in the past week, reaching 87.8 BTC in volume. In terms of sales, BTC Ordinals have surged 891% in the same time period, climbing as high as 71.200 units sold.
In fact, many traders on X have begun asking about recommendations for BTC Ordinals in the wake of rising numbers.
In the past 24 hours, the overall volume in the NFT market spiked by 5.38%, while sales plummeted by 6.27%. Among the key Ethereum (ETH) NFTs like Moonbirds, Pudgy Penguin and CryptoPunks, BTC Ordinal NodeMonkes has made a breakthrough appearance at number four on the leaderboard.
As of July 28, NodeMonkes floor price has risen rapidly by 26.3% in the past 24 hours, beating out all the other Ethereum NFTs in the top 10 by growth percentage. In fact, the majority of the top 10 BTC Ordinals have seen gains ranging from 20% to 72% and beyond.
Here are some BTC ordinals dominating the market as well as some interesting hidden gems that have yet to reach the charts but are well on their way.
Interesting Bitcoin art projects to check out
NodeMonkes by Anonymous
Coming in at number one, NodeMonkes is a collection of 10,000 pixel-art monkeys inscribed early on Bitcoin. The collection gained rapid popularity thanks to its retro aesthetics and meme-driven cultural appeal. Back in 2023, it briefly surpassed its Ethereum-counterpart Bored Ape Yacht Club.
However, to this day the creator of this iconic project remains anonymous.
Bitcoin Puppets by The Puppeteer
Launched in January 2024, the Bitcoin Puppets collection is a whimsical art project that looks like it was drawn on MS Paint. Bitcoin Puppets features edgy, satirical imagery consisting of 10,001 monkey-themed characters. Similar to NodeMonkes, its creator also remains a mystery.
The Golden Ratio and FloraForms by Harto
Created by Spanish digital artist Harto, the project consists of tens of thousands of algorithmically generated art pieces inscribed via Ordinals. The Golden Ratio and FloraForms are two artworks inspired by The Kiss. These works blend creativity and digital art through a collaboration with prestigious institutions like the Belvedere Museum.
Cents by Rutherford Chang
Created by conceptual artist Rutherford Chang, CENTS is a deeply reflective project exploring themes related to value and materiality. It inscribed 10,000 individual U.S. copper pennies, that were created before 1982-era cents, as one‑cent digitals on satoshis.
These were then melted into a copper cube, which was later reproduced via a 4 megabyte ordinal 3D model on-chain known as “CENTS Block 839969.”
Polylith by OTO
Polylith is a generative, time‑conceptual artwork that plays with the concept of reverse chronology. Created by Japanese artist OTO, the artwork renders visual narratives traveling from Bitcoin block 8,400,000 backward to Genesis, with each block updating the imagery.
The piece leverages ordinals‑specific features like pre-inscription, parent/child provenance, and fully on-chain metadata to craft its evolving story-timeline.
Are We Ded by Hafftka
An animated Bitcoin ordinal depicting a skull in a colorful frame that flashes in light to dark colors as the image gets closer and closer the more you look at it, Are We Ded was created by New York-based visual artist Hafftka.
Hafftka transitioned into digital art through Bitcoin Ordinals and Ethereum NFTs, inscribing a series of pieces directly onto sats.
STRANGE IDEOGRAPH by The Color Blocks
STRANGE IDEOGRAPH is a large-scale algorithmic inscription-style art project by The Color Blocks. Strange Ideograph uses around 60,000 particles to generate field-like visuals, depicting mathematical forms with generative aesthetics on a green, purple, black, brown or blue backdrop.
