Cointelegraph Team
Cointelegraph
A non-profit organization dedicated to growing the development of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on Bitcoin (BTC $29,603) has been launched by the team behind the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol.
The California-based nonprofit called the Open Ordinals Institute will bolster the Ordinals protocol by providing funding to the team’s core developers, which includes the project’s pseudonymous lead maintainer Raph.
In total, four team members will serve on the board of the new nonprofit; Raph, Bitcoin-focused podcast host Erin Redwing an anonymous Ordinals developer known as Ordinally and Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor.
The Ordinals protocol was launched in January by Rodarmor. It rapidly became one of the most popular crypto trends with users rushing to inscribe assets on the Bitcoin blockchain, including NFTs and Bitcoin-based cryptocurrencies.
On May 28, Rodarmor stepped down as the protocol’s lead maintainer and handed the role over to Raph.
As of Aug. 1, 5:30 pm UTC, the total number of Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions topped 21 million, an auspicious milestone for users of the Bitcoin network.
The team also launched the official website for the organization, Ordinals.org, allowing users to make donations and view updates to the project’s development.
According to the official website, any donations made to the Institute will be tax-deductible for United States taxpayers following the organization’s approval by the Internal Revenue Service, which it expects to occur sometime later this year.
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