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Bitcoin Ecosystem Coins
1,042 coins #1 Page 19| | Coins | | | ||
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| | 901 |  CORE BRC CORE | $ | --%  | |
| | 902 |  AIGE BRC AIGE | $ | --%  | |
| | 903 |  FFIE BRC FFIE | $ | --%  | |
| | 904 |  ZOOA ZOOA | $ | --%  | |
| | 905 |  BSHL BRC BSHL | $ | --%  | |
| | 906 |  CDDE CBRC CDDE | $ | --%  | |
| | 907 |  CSGO BRC CSGO | $ | --%  | |
| | 908 |  CHICO SRC CHICO | $ | --%  | |
| | 909 |  TSHX BRC TSHX | $ | --%  | |
| | 910 |  NIKA SRC NIKA | $ | --%  | |
| | 911 |  LAMBO•LIFESTYLE 💰 | $ | --%  | |
| | 912 |  GUAP GUAP | $ | --%  | |
| | 913 |  RETARDIO•WORLD•ORDER 🤡 | $ | --%  | |
| | 914 |  WANG WANG | $ | --%  | |
| | 915 |  Masha and BeaRC20 MAWA | $ | --%  | |
| | 916 |  OrdinalsMiner ORMI | $ | --%  | |
| | 917 |  SYMM BRC SYMM | $ | --%  | |
| | 918 |  OPIN BRC OPIN | $ | --%  | |
| | 919 |  BNBS BRC BNBS | $ | --%  | |
| | 920 |  SCOB BRC SCOB | $ | --%  | |
| | 921 |  The Ordinals Club BTOC | $ | --%  | |
| | 922 |  PUMP BRC PUMP | $ | --%  | |
| | 923 |  BLOB BRC BLOB | $ | --%  | |
| | 924 |  QUIQ BRC QUIQ | $ | --%  | |
| | 925 |  TREE BRC TREE | $ | --%  | |
| | 926 |  SEEK CBRC SEEK | $ | --%  | |
| | 927 |  TOAD BRC TOAD | $ | --%  | |
| | 928 |  PINO CBRC PINO | $ | --%  | |
| | 929 |  NAKS BRC20 NAKS | $ | --%  | |
| | 930 |  SARMY SRC SARMY | $ | --%  | |
| | 931 |  DOGE SRC DOGE | $ | --%  | |
| | 932 |  RAT•POISON•SQUARED 🐀 | $ | --%  | |
| | 933 |  PlazaDAO PLAZ | $ | --%  | |
| | 934 |  SHORT•THE•WORLD ▼ | $ | --%  | |
| | 935 |  SZAB SZAB | $ | --%  | |
| | 936 |  FIMH FIMH | $ | --%  | |
| | 937 |  dolphin DLN | $ | --%  | |
| | 938 |  9527 BRC 9527 | $ | --%  | |
| | 939 |  GROK BRC GROK | $ | --%  | |
| | 940 |  BLND BRC BLND | $ | --%  | |
| | 941 |  BC1Q BRC BC1Q | $ | --%  | |
| | 942 |  TX20 BRC TX20 | $ | --%  | |
| | 943 |  PADD BRC PADD | $ | --%  | |
| | 944 |  TCAT BRC TCAT | $ | --%  | |
| | 945 |  BOLT BRC BOLT | $ | --%  | |
| | 946 |  ETHI BRC ETHI | $ | --%  | |
| | 947 |  GENE BRC GENE | $ | --%  | |
| | 948 |  BERU BRC BERU | $ | --%  | |
| | 949 |  SQTS BRC SQTS | $ | --%  | |
| | 950 |  CLUE CBRC CLUE | $ | --%  | |
Trending Bitcoin Ecosystem Coins
| Coins | Price | 24h | |
|---|---|---|---|
| |  Bitcoin BTC | $ | +0.64%  |
| |  Dog (Bitcoin) DOG | $ | +0.19%  |
| |  SATS BRC SATS | $ | -0.30%  |
| |  ordi ORDI | $ | -0.87%  |
| |  The Doge NFT DOG | $ | +0.26%  |
Top gainers
| Coins | | | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Bitcoin BTC | $ | +0.64% | ||
| | The Doge NFT DOG | $ | +0.26% | ||
| | Dog (Bitcoin) DOG | $ | +0.19% | ||
| |  RATS BRC RATS | $ | -0.14%  | ||
| | SATS BRC SATS | $ | -0.30% | ||
| All gainers | |||||
What Is the Bitcoin Ecosystem?
The Bitcoin ecosystem is the broad network of software, participants, and services that make Bitcoin work: the protocol and whitepaper, full nodes and miners/validators, wallets and custodians, exchanges and market makers, block explorers and indexers, layer-2 networks (like Lightning), developer tooling, and the businesses that build on top of Bitcoin. It covers everything from protocol development and node operators to consumer wallets, institutional custody, and payment services.
Quick Facts
- Launch / origin: Bitcoin was introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto in the 2008 whitepaper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.”
- Core tech: A permissionless blockchain secured by Proof-of-Work with a public ledger of transactions.
- Native asset: BTC — used for value transfer, store of value, staking-like economic incentives for miners, and fee market dynamics.
- Layer-2 & scaling: Lightning Network and other off-chain/on-chain constructions provide faster, cheaper payments and additional use cases.
- Visibility & tools: Multiple block explorers and analytics tools let anyone inspect transactions, mempool state, and node/block metrics.
Bitcoin Ecosystem You Should Know
- Protocol & research: Developers and researchers who maintain Bitcoin Core and propose BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals).
- Nodes & miners: Full nodes validate rules; miners secure the chain and produce blocks.
- Wallets & custody: Noncustodial wallets (software/hardware) for self-custody; custodial services and exchanges for convenience and fiat rails.
- Layer-2s & privacy tooling: Lightning Network for fast payments; privacy tools and wallets that enhance fungibility.
- Market infrastructure: CEXs, DEX-like token services, OTC desks, custodians, settlement services, and market makers.
- Explorers & observability: Services that expose block/tx/mempool/state data to users and developers.
Benefits
- Decentralization & censorship resistance: A globally distributed ledger that’s hard to censor or shut down.
- Monetary scarcity: Fixed supply issuance schedule (21 million BTC) gives predictable scarcity.
- Open tooling & auditability: Open-source clients and public blockchain data enable independent verification.
- Composability at the rails level: Layer-2s (Lightning) and custodial integrations enable new payment rails and financial products.
Final Thoughts
The Bitcoin ecosystem is both simple in its core design and vast in its operational and commercial surface area. It’s matured from a niche experiment into a global financial and technical ecosystem — with tradeoffs (scaling, energy debates, regulatory scrutiny) that participants continually address via research, tooling, and Layer-2 innovation. Use trusted wallets and explorers, run or trust a small number of full nodes if you need sovereignty, and verify custody/backing when using custodial services.
Official & useful links
- Bitcoin (official site)
- Bitcoin whitepaper — “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”
- Mempool (block explorer & mempool tools)
- Blockstream Explorer
- [Mempool Lightning stats & explorer]