It’s raining Runestone. The extremely anticipated Runestones airdrop came about late Thursday, sending Ordinal inscriptions to over 112,000 Bitcoin wallets.
“One thing is occurring!” NFT historian and Runestone spokesperson Leonidas mentioned on Twitter. “112,383 Runestones are approaching Earth’s environment. Brace yourselves for affect.”
In response to the Inscription market Ordi, collectors hoping to obtain a Runestone within the airdrop should go to its Bitcoin Ordinals platform and enter their pockets deal with, and kind by latest.
“It is a decentralized, 100% volunteer effort—I tweeted the concept final month to do an enormous airdrop to reward the yr one Ordinals group,” Leonidas beforehand instructed Decrypt. “Over ten completely different firms within the Ordinals ecosystem have donated funds, engineering sources, and so on., to assist make it occur,” he added.
The Ordi Twitter account mentioned Runestones shall be mined and distributed to the yr one Ordinals group in 81 batches of 1,400 over the following 48 hours.
“Do not forget that you earned your Runestone by displaying up and collaborating in Ordinals when no person else did,” Leonidas mentioned. “This was the one method to get a Runestone and there was no crew allocation or pre-sale.”
INCOMING: 112,383 Runestones are being airdropped to Xverse customers!
See them on @ord_io 🔭✨
DID YOU GET STONED?? Present us👇
pic.twitter.com/sDPc83vhjt— Xverse – Bitcoin Pockets for Web3 (@XverseApp) March 14, 2024
In a sequence of tweets, Leonidas up to date Runestone collectors on this system of the airdrop.
“Up to now 45 minutes, 4 batches of 1,400 Runestones have been inscribed and despatched out to their vacation spot deal with,” Leonidas mentioned because the airdrop started. “Every little thing appears to be going easily. 76 batches of 1,400 stay and must be anticipated to take ~24 extra hours.”
Runestone Airdrop Progress Replace:
Up to now 45 minutes 4 batches of 1,400 Runestones have been inscribed and despatched out to their vacation spot deal with. Every little thing appears to be going easily. 76 batches of 1,400 stay and must be anticipated to take ~24 extra hours.
Runestone’s…
— Leonidas (@LeonidasNFT) March 14, 2024
Behind the scenes, Leonidas highlighted Runestone associate Ordinalsbots, which is working to execute the remainder of the large inscription airdrop. Leonidas additionally famous that Ordinals marketplaces, together with Magic Eden and Ordinalswallet, are engaged on indexing the Runestone inscriptions in order that they are often traded on the secondary market.
Appears like Runestones are incoming… who’s prepared??
Oh and you can commerce them right here because the indexing updates 😉 (Indexing shall be ongoing, and repeatedly up to date subsequent 24h) https://t.co/S8HdWhq8T9
— Magic Eden on Bitcoin 🟧 (@MEonBTC) March 14, 2024
“There isn’t any disgrace in promoting your Runestone,” Leonidas mentioned. “Everybody has completely different life circumstances. Congrats to all patrons and sellers.”
Runestone secondary buying and selling is stay on @MEonBTC:
There isn’t any disgrace in promoting your Runestone. Everybody has completely different life circumstances. Congrats to all patrons and sellers.
→ https://t.co/GRe1px2pT9 pic.twitter.com/elSxE4MDR5
— Leonidas (@LeonidasNFT) March 14, 2024
Earlier this month, The Runestone, the biggest ordinal inscription by block measurement at 3.97 MB, went up for public sale. The successful bid for The Runestone, inscription 63,140,674, was 8 BTC, or round $572,973.
“It’s an honor to lastly be getting stoned with all of you,” Leonidas concluded.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
