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- The market cap of tokens developed under Bitcoin Ordinals surpassed $1.4 billion.
- Trading and social volume fell, indicating a likely decline in token prices.
Growing an ecosystem to a $1 billion market cap is never an easy task. But earlier this year, tokens developed under the Bitcoin ordinal numbers’ The BRC-20 standard has achieved this in a short time.
However, this milestone did not last long as the sector’s market capitalization dropped to $400 million a few weeks later.
Back in all your faces
Recently, the game seems to have changed for the BRC-20 tokens. This is because its market cap once again crossed the $1 billion mark, reaching $1.4 billion, based on that of AMBCrypto analysis from BRC-20.io.
Introduced around January 2023, Bitcoin Ordinals is a new form of digital artifact that allows text, audio, images, and the like to be written on satoshis.
Satoshi is the smallest Bitcoin unit. While Bitcoin Ordinals offered non-fungible tokens on the network in its early days, BRC-20 followed as an experiment to enable fungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain.
This experiment has been assessed in recent months successful in a way. Although the hype disappeared at some point, the listing of Ordi [ORDI] on Binance seemed to be the catalyst that brought attention back to the others.
ORDI is one of the best BRC-20 tokens. On November 8, AMBCrypto reported on the cryptocurrency’s massive rise following its listing on Binance. As a result of the surge, other BRC-20 tokens followed suit.
A look at the Ordspace website showed that other tokens including TRAC, OSHI, NALS and many more have followed ORDI’s move.
Source: Ordspace
Time for a little rest
To assess whether these tokens are still capturing the market’s attention, AMBCrypto thought it was important to check the sentiment around ORDI, the group’s top token. Two statistics that can provide good insight into this are the trading volume and the social volume.
Social volume measures the search terms and messages related to a coin. Trading volume is the amount of assets exchanged within a given period.
At the time of writing, ORDI’s trading volume on the exchanges was $414.66 million.
This volume was close to the value assigned to it on November 15. While trading volume remained virtually unchanged, ORDI’s social volume declined.
The combination of these statistics implies that the market is currently overlooking these tokens.
Source: Santiment
How many Worth 1,10,100 ORDIs today?
Therefore, players may need to lower their expectations regarding the BRC-20 tokens. Another look at the broader market showed tokens undergoing a correction.
So people like OSHI and TRAC can do the same. Should the market return to the accumulation phase, the price of these tokens may also resume the uptrend.