Magic Eden Embraces Ordinals, Releases Bitcoin NFT Marketplace
“There’s a lot of high-value items that are being inscribed or created on the bitcoin chain, and for a very, very burgeoning NFT ecosystem that it’s, it’s been super exciting to see,” Yin told CoinDesk. “And at Magic Eden, we’re working on a lot of cross-chain things anyway, and we felt like this was a really cool adjacent ecosystem for us to tackle.”
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