Recursive Inscription: The Lego Bricks of the Bitcoin Ecosystem

Recursive inscriptions are a significant update to the Ordinals protocol, opening up vast possibilities for the composability development of the Bitcoin ecosystem. It allows inscriptions to reference each other, enabling more complex use cases.

The main features of recursive inscriptions include:

• Enhance interoperability and composability
• Reduce storage costs
• Break through the 4MB size limit
• Enhance flexibility and creativity

Innovative application directions based on recursive inscriptions include:

• Inscription Disassembly and Combination
• Bitcoin Music
• Bitcoin chain game
• Generative Art
• Decentralized website

Typical case:

1. 1Mask - Art project generated on the entire chain
2. Orbinals - A geek project based on uncommon sats.
3. BRC69 standard - Optimizing the inscription cost of recursive sets
4. OnChainMonkey - The first 3D NFT project
5. Descent Into Darkness - On-chain Music Generation Engine
6. Single-player H5 mini-games - Snake, Link Up, etc.
7. BTC PixelWar - Collaborative Pixel Canvas

The main challenges faced by recursive inscriptions:

• Rendering efficiency during deep recursion
• Parsing speed when referencing a large amount

Despite the technical challenges, recursive inscriptions still bring great innovative potential to the Bitcoin ecosystem, promising to give rise to more complex logic on-chain applications. In the future, we can expect killer applications to emerge in fields such as generative art, blockchain games, and the metaverse.