On the 10th of July 2021, we completed the sale of the worlds first ever NFT to be minted and sold using Bitcoin smart contracts on the Stacks blockchain.
Historic moment for #Bitcoin
Cara Delevingne’s “Mine”, the first ever Bitcoin #NFT to be minted and auctioned on the #Stacks blockchain has sold for 18000 STX. $21000 at current prices
Cost to mint and transfer “Mine” was just 0.0007 #STX or $0.001
https://t.co/hjJRZwGPgR
A 7-minute high-res song, inscribed with Xtrata.
The media itself is on-chain.
No IPFS.
No pinning.
No streaming service.
No external file host to keep alive.
5.13mb of audio.
13 transactions.
$1.26 total cost.
This is durable rich media on @Stacks.
@XtrataLayers
https://t.co/9ZtZWQFLcN
For too long, Web3 tools for artists have mostly focused on the final mint.
But creative work is bigger than that.
Process, context, credits, versions, collaborators, proofs and archives all matter too.
That’s the layer Xtrata is trying to make durable.
It’s about time Web3 started serving the full creative record, not just the final asset.
The work, the process, the credits, the context, the provenance, the versions, the collaborators.
Artists deserve infrastructure for all of it.
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🧵 Invisible Work
A lot of creative work is invisible.
The draft before the final.
The stem inside the song.
The credit behind the artwork.
Xtrata is for making more of that creative record durable.
https://t.co/JRvQt254Hi
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Xtrata just got a mobile upgrade.
The homepage and wallet inscription view are now much cleaner on smaller screens, especially when browsing from tablet or mobile wallet browsers.
From inscriptions to recursive apps.
In a nutshell: Put rich media and useful data on-chain.
Deep dive: Create on-chain objects that can reference other on-chain objects.
Media, metadata, manifests, proofs, credits and apps become building blocks.
https://t.co/JRvQt254Hi
Xtrata is a rich media registry for Stacks.
Images, music, audio, video, text and files can all become durable on-chain records.
Useful media should be easy to record, reference and retrieve.
https://t.co/JRvQt254Hi
Put the good stuff on-chain.
Music, audio, video, images, files, apps, metadata, manifests, proofs and creative records.
Not everything needs to disappear into a feed. Some things deserve a durable reference.
https://t.co/JRvQt254Hi
Xtrata is open.
Put rich media and useful data on-chain.
Music, audio, video, images, text, files, metadata, manifests, proofs, apps, and recursive objects.
Record it. Reference it. Retrieve it.
https://t.co/JRvQt254Hi
Proud of this.
Congrats to @JingSwap and @b2pixorg — deserved recognition for expanding what Stacks can do.
It feels special to show that inscriptions, permanent media and NFT infrastructure can stand alongside DeFi and payments.
A nice moment for the Stacks creator ecosystem.
4 STX. Less than a coffee. Permanent forever.
Most NFTs at this price live on IPFS servers that could go down tomorrow.
DYLE0415 — 173 pieces of generative art by dyle.btc. Inscribed on Bitcoin L2. 170 remaining.
https://t.co/4djcIWqokm
#Stacks#GenerativeArt#BitcoinNFT
True blockchain collecting is about permanence.
The art shouldn't outlive the server; it should live in the chain.
DYLE0415 embraces the philosophy of immutable data.
No IPFS. No compromises.
Live now: 3/173 minted.
https://t.co/4djcIWqokm
DYLE0414 sold out. DYLE0415 is your second chance.
173 pieces of generative art permanently inscribed on Bitcoin L2 by dyle.btc. No IPFS. No servers. Forever on-chain.
4 STX (~$0.89) each. 171 remaining.
https://t.co/E8H9jeu8q2
#Stacks#BitcoinNFT#GenerativeArt
New live mint on https://t.co/JRvQt254Hi — RussianRampage by jim.btc. 111 pieces on Bitcoin L2 at 0.003 STX. Only 3 minted so far. No IPFS, no server — the art lives on-chain forever. Permanent ownership on Stacks. https://t.co/JRvQt254Hi #Stacks#sBTC
Token #82 on Xtrata is a full interactive app running from inscriptions on Bitcoin L2 — recursive modules referencing each other, no server, no IPFS, no CDN. This is what truly permanent on-chain data looks like. Everything else is just a pointer. https://t.co/JRvQt254Hi #Stacks