Meet OrdinalsBot, the Bitcoin Startup Behind the Runestone and Ghostface Killah Drops

Bitcoin Ordinals startup OrdinalsBot—which helped mine the largest-ever Bitcoin block and is working with Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah on Ordinals—announced Tuesday that it surpassed its funding goal with a $3 million seed round led by DACM. The round brings OrdinalsBot’s total funding to over $4.5 million.

OrdinalsBot launched in February of last year after Casey Rodarmor released the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin for putting NFT-like media assets on-chain.
Initially, inscribing an Ordinal required several complex steps, including downloading the entire history of the Bitcoin blockchain (aka a full node). OrdinalsBot aims to streamline the inscription minting process for collectors and artists.
“The round was hot from day one, which was great. We've had really strong traction as one of the main Ordinals builder groups,” OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis told Decrypt in an exclusive interview. "It took us a couple of weeks to get to oversubscribed status, which is pretty good in fundraising, but I think Ordinals is the topic of the moment.”

The money, OrdinalsBot said, will be used to expand on its infrastructure, including hiring and launching an Ordinals inscription marketplace.
Joining DACM in the seed funding round are Eden Block, Nural Capital, WWVentures, Lightning Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, UTXO Management, Kenetic Capital, CMS Holdings, Kestrel0x1, Sora Ventures, London Real Ventures, Crypto Zombie, and MDX Crypto.
In addition to digital art, OrdinalsBot enables on-chain blogging and text uploads to the Bitcoin network via Scribe. It supports BRC-20 tokens (aka fungible tokens on Bitcoin), parent-child inscription hierarchies, and analytics and management through its API. For co-founder Brian Laughlan, the need for a seamless way to create Ordinals inscriptions was visible from the start.
“Basically, people were in Discord doing [over-the-counter trades],” Laughlan said. “Then we launched this product where it's just really easy, and then boom, instant product market fit—and it was just at a time when the Bitcoin Punks were minting as well.”


Traffic picked up for OrdinalsBot, Laughlan said, after it inadvertently became known to the public on Discord.
“I think in the end, like 80% of all those Punks basically came through our platform—the server completely melted that weekend because there were just too many people,” he said, adding that it took six hours to get back online.
“Business has just been flowing, and so we've been able to get our hands on essentially everything that's happened with Ordinals; we've had our hands in the pot in some way or form behind the scenes,” Laughlan said. "For example, we inscribed 90% of the Magic Eden drops for them last year.”
In February, ahead of the anticipated Runestone airdrop, OrdinalsBot teamed with Marathon Digital to mint the largest Inscription mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, the parent Runestone.

Bitcoin Ordinals startup OrdinalsBot—which helped mine the largest-ever Bitcoin block and is working with Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah on Ordinals—announced Tuesday that it surpassed its funding goal with a $3 million seed round led by DACM. The round brings OrdinalsBot’s total funding to over $4.5 million.

OrdinalsBot launched in February of last year after Casey Rodarmor released the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin for putting NFT-like media assets on-chain.
Initially, inscribing an Ordinal required several complex steps, including downloading the entire history of the Bitcoin blockchain (aka a full node). OrdinalsBot aims to streamline the inscription minting process for collectors and artists.
“The round was hot from day one, which was great. We've had really strong traction as one of the main Ordinals builder groups,” OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis told Decrypt in an exclusive interview. "It took us a couple of weeks to get to oversubscribed status, which is pretty good in fundraising, but I think Ordinals is the topic of the moment.”

The money, OrdinalsBot said, will be used to expand on its infrastructure, including hiring and launching an Ordinals inscription marketplace.
Joining DACM in the seed funding round are Eden Block, Nural Capital, WWVentures, Lightning Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, UTXO Management, Kenetic Capital, CMS Holdings, Kestrel0x1, Sora Ventures, London Real Ventures, Crypto Zombie, and MDX Crypto.
In addition to digital art, OrdinalsBot enables on-chain blogging and text uploads to the Bitcoin network via Scribe. It supports BRC-20 tokens (aka fungible tokens on Bitcoin), parent-child inscription hierarchies, and analytics and management through its API. For co-founder Brian Laughlan, the need for a seamless way to create Ordinals inscriptions was visible from the start.
“Basically, people were in Discord doing [over-the-counter trades],” Laughlan said. “Then we launched this product where it's just really easy, and then boom, instant product market fit—and it was just at a time when the Bitcoin Punks were minting as well.”


Traffic picked up for OrdinalsBot, Laughlan said, after it inadvertently became known to the public on Discord.
“I think in the end, like 80% of all those Punks basically came through our platform—the server completely melted that weekend because there were just too many people,” he said, adding that it took six hours to get back online.
“Business has just been flowing, and so we've been able to get our hands on essentially everything that's happened with Ordinals; we've had our hands in the pot in some way or form behind the scenes,” Laughlan said. "For example, we inscribed 90% of the Magic Eden drops for them last year.”
In February, ahead of the anticipated Runestone airdrop, OrdinalsBot teamed with Marathon Digital to mint the largest Inscription mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, the parent Runestone.

Bitcoin Ordinals startup OrdinalsBot—which helped mine the largest-ever Bitcoin block and is working with Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah on Ordinals—announced Tuesday that it surpassed its funding goal with a $3 million seed round led by DACM. The round brings OrdinalsBot’s total funding to over $4.5 million.

OrdinalsBot launched in February of last year after Casey Rodarmor released the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin for putting NFT-like media assets on-chain.
Initially, inscribing an Ordinal required several complex steps, including downloading the entire history of the Bitcoin blockchain (aka a full node). OrdinalsBot aims to streamline the inscription minting process for collectors and artists.
“The round was hot from day one, which was great. We've had really strong traction as one of the main Ordinals builder groups,” OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis told Decrypt in an exclusive interview. "It took us a couple of weeks to get to oversubscribed status, which is pretty good in fundraising, but I think Ordinals is the topic of the moment.”

The money, OrdinalsBot said, will be used to expand on its infrastructure, including hiring and launching an Ordinals inscription marketplace.
Joining DACM in the seed funding round are Eden Block, Nural Capital, WWVentures, Lightning Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, UTXO Management, Kenetic Capital, CMS Holdings, Kestrel0x1, Sora Ventures, London Real Ventures, Crypto Zombie, and MDX Crypto.
In addition to digital art, OrdinalsBot enables on-chain blogging and text uploads to the Bitcoin network via Scribe. It supports BRC-20 tokens (aka fungible tokens on Bitcoin), parent-child inscription hierarchies, and analytics and management through its API. For co-founder Brian Laughlan, the need for a seamless way to create Ordinals inscriptions was visible from the start.
“Basically, people were in Discord doing [over-the-counter trades],” Laughlan said. “Then we launched this product where it's just really easy, and then boom, instant product market fit—and it was just at a time when the Bitcoin Punks were minting as well.”


Traffic picked up for OrdinalsBot, Laughlan said, after it inadvertently became known to the public on Discord.
“I think in the end, like 80% of all those Punks basically came through our platform—the server completely melted that weekend because there were just too many people,” he said, adding that it took six hours to get back online.
“Business has just been flowing, and so we've been able to get our hands on essentially everything that's happened with Ordinals; we've had our hands in the pot in some way or form behind the scenes,” Laughlan said. "For example, we inscribed 90% of the Magic Eden drops for them last year.”
In February, ahead of the anticipated Runestone airdrop, OrdinalsBot teamed with Marathon Digital to mint the largest Inscription mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, the parent Runestone.

Bitcoin Ordinals startup OrdinalsBot—which helped mine the largest-ever Bitcoin block and is working with Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah on Ordinals—announced Tuesday that it surpassed its funding goal with a $3 million seed round led by DACM. The round brings OrdinalsBot’s total funding to over $4.5 million.

OrdinalsBot launched in February of last year after Casey Rodarmor released the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin for putting NFT-like media assets on-chain.
Initially, inscribing an Ordinal required several complex steps, including downloading the entire history of the Bitcoin blockchain (aka a full node). OrdinalsBot aims to streamline the inscription minting process for collectors and artists.
“The round was hot from day one, which was great. We've had really strong traction as one of the main Ordinals builder groups,” OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis told Decrypt in an exclusive interview. "It took us a couple of weeks to get to oversubscribed status, which is pretty good in fundraising, but I think Ordinals is the topic of the moment.”

The money, OrdinalsBot said, will be used to expand on its infrastructure, including hiring and launching an Ordinals inscription marketplace.
Joining DACM in the seed funding round are Eden Block, Nural Capital, WWVentures, Lightning Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, UTXO Management, Kenetic Capital, CMS Holdings, Kestrel0x1, Sora Ventures, London Real Ventures, Crypto Zombie, and MDX Crypto.
In addition to digital art, OrdinalsBot enables on-chain blogging and text uploads to the Bitcoin network via Scribe. It supports BRC-20 tokens (aka fungible tokens on Bitcoin), parent-child inscription hierarchies, and analytics and management through its API. For co-founder Brian Laughlan, the need for a seamless way to create Ordinals inscriptions was visible from the start.
“Basically, people were in Discord doing [over-the-counter trades],” Laughlan said. “Then we launched this product where it's just really easy, and then boom, instant product market fit—and it was just at a time when the Bitcoin Punks were minting as well.”


Traffic picked up for OrdinalsBot, Laughlan said, after it inadvertently became known to the public on Discord.
“I think in the end, like 80% of all those Punks basically came through our platform—the server completely melted that weekend because there were just too many people,” he said, adding that it took six hours to get back online.
“Business has just been flowing, and so we've been able to get our hands on essentially everything that's happened with Ordinals; we've had our hands in the pot in some way or form behind the scenes,” Laughlan said. "For example, we inscribed 90% of the Magic Eden drops for them last year.”
In February, ahead of the anticipated Runestone airdrop, OrdinalsBot teamed with Marathon Digital to mint the largest Inscription mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, the parent Runestone.

Bitcoin Ordinals startup OrdinalsBot—which helped mine the largest-ever Bitcoin block and is working with Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah on Ordinals—announced Tuesday that it surpassed its funding goal with a $3 million seed round led by DACM. The round brings OrdinalsBot’s total funding to over $4.5 million.

OrdinalsBot launched in February of last year after Casey Rodarmor released the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin for putting NFT-like media assets on-chain.
Initially, inscribing an Ordinal required several complex steps, including downloading the entire history of the Bitcoin blockchain (aka a full node). OrdinalsBot aims to streamline the inscription minting process for collectors and artists.
“The round was hot from day one, which was great. We've had really strong traction as one of the main Ordinals builder groups,” OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis told Decrypt in an exclusive interview. "It took us a couple of weeks to get to oversubscribed status, which is pretty good in fundraising, but I think Ordinals is the topic of the moment.”

The money, OrdinalsBot said, will be used to expand on its infrastructure, including hiring and launching an Ordinals inscription marketplace.
Joining DACM in the seed funding round are Eden Block, Nural Capital, WWVentures, Lightning Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, UTXO Management, Kenetic Capital, CMS Holdings, Kestrel0x1, Sora Ventures, London Real Ventures, Crypto Zombie, and MDX Crypto.
In addition to digital art, OrdinalsBot enables on-chain blogging and text uploads to the Bitcoin network via Scribe. It supports BRC-20 tokens (aka fungible tokens on Bitcoin), parent-child inscription hierarchies, and analytics and management through its API. For co-founder Brian Laughlan, the need for a seamless way to create Ordinals inscriptions was visible from the start.
“Basically, people were in Discord doing [over-the-counter trades],” Laughlan said. “Then we launched this product where it's just really easy, and then boom, instant product market fit—and it was just at a time when the Bitcoin Punks were minting as well.”


Traffic picked up for OrdinalsBot, Laughlan said, after it inadvertently became known to the public on Discord.
“I think in the end, like 80% of all those Punks basically came through our platform—the server completely melted that weekend because there were just too many people,” he said, adding that it took six hours to get back online.
“Business has just been flowing, and so we've been able to get our hands on essentially everything that's happened with Ordinals; we've had our hands in the pot in some way or form behind the scenes,” Laughlan said. "For example, we inscribed 90% of the Magic Eden drops for them last year.”
In February, ahead of the anticipated Runestone airdrop, OrdinalsBot teamed with Marathon Digital to mint the largest Inscription mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, the parent Runestone.

Bitcoin Ordinals startup OrdinalsBot—which helped mine the largest-ever Bitcoin block and is working with Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah on Ordinals—announced Tuesday that it surpassed its funding goal with a $3 million seed round led by DACM. The round brings OrdinalsBot’s total funding to over $4.5 million.

OrdinalsBot launched in February of last year after Casey Rodarmor released the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin for putting NFT-like media assets on-chain.
Initially, inscribing an Ordinal required several complex steps, including downloading the entire history of the Bitcoin blockchain (aka a full node). OrdinalsBot aims to streamline the inscription minting process for collectors and artists.
“The round was hot from day one, which was great. We've had really strong traction as one of the main Ordinals builder groups,” OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis told Decrypt in an exclusive interview. "It took us a couple of weeks to get to oversubscribed status, which is pretty good in fundraising, but I think Ordinals is the topic of the moment.”

The money, OrdinalsBot said, will be used to expand on its infrastructure, including hiring and launching an Ordinals inscription marketplace.
Joining DACM in the seed funding round are Eden Block, Nural Capital, WWVentures, Lightning Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, UTXO Management, Kenetic Capital, CMS Holdings, Kestrel0x1, Sora Ventures, London Real Ventures, Crypto Zombie, and MDX Crypto.
In addition to digital art, OrdinalsBot enables on-chain blogging and text uploads to the Bitcoin network via Scribe. It supports BRC-20 tokens (aka fungible tokens on Bitcoin), parent-child inscription hierarchies, and analytics and management through its API. For co-founder Brian Laughlan, the need for a seamless way to create Ordinals inscriptions was visible from the start.
“Basically, people were in Discord doing [over-the-counter trades],” Laughlan said. “Then we launched this product where it's just really easy, and then boom, instant product market fit—and it was just at a time when the Bitcoin Punks were minting as well.”


Traffic picked up for OrdinalsBot, Laughlan said, after it inadvertently became known to the public on Discord.
“I think in the end, like 80% of all those Punks basically came through our platform—the server completely melted that weekend because there were just too many people,” he said, adding that it took six hours to get back online.
“Business has just been flowing, and so we've been able to get our hands on essentially everything that's happened with Ordinals; we've had our hands in the pot in some way or form behind the scenes,” Laughlan said. "For example, we inscribed 90% of the Magic Eden drops for them last year.”
In February, ahead of the anticipated Runestone airdrop, OrdinalsBot teamed with Marathon Digital to mint the largest Inscription mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, the parent Runestone.

Bitcoin Ordinals startup OrdinalsBot—which helped mine the largest-ever Bitcoin block and is working with Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah on Ordinals—announced Tuesday that it surpassed its funding goal with a $3 million seed round led by DACM. The round brings OrdinalsBot’s total funding to over $4.5 million.

OrdinalsBot launched in February of last year after Casey Rodarmor released the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin for putting NFT-like media assets on-chain.
Initially, inscribing an Ordinal required several complex steps, including downloading the entire history of the Bitcoin blockchain (aka a full node). OrdinalsBot aims to streamline the inscription minting process for collectors and artists.
“The round was hot from day one, which was great. We've had really strong traction as one of the main Ordinals builder groups,” OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis told Decrypt in an exclusive interview. "It took us a couple of weeks to get to oversubscribed status, which is pretty good in fundraising, but I think Ordinals is the topic of the moment.”

The money, OrdinalsBot said, will be used to expand on its infrastructure, including hiring and launching an Ordinals inscription marketplace.
Joining DACM in the seed funding round are Eden Block, Nural Capital, WWVentures, Lightning Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, UTXO Management, Kenetic Capital, CMS Holdings, Kestrel0x1, Sora Ventures, London Real Ventures, Crypto Zombie, and MDX Crypto.
In addition to digital art, OrdinalsBot enables on-chain blogging and text uploads to the Bitcoin network via Scribe. It supports BRC-20 tokens (aka fungible tokens on Bitcoin), parent-child inscription hierarchies, and analytics and management through its API. For co-founder Brian Laughlan, the need for a seamless way to create Ordinals inscriptions was visible from the start.
“Basically, people were in Discord doing [over-the-counter trades],” Laughlan said. “Then we launched this product where it's just really easy, and then boom, instant product market fit—and it was just at a time when the Bitcoin Punks were minting as well.”


Traffic picked up for OrdinalsBot, Laughlan said, after it inadvertently became known to the public on Discord.
“I think in the end, like 80% of all those Punks basically came through our platform—the server completely melted that weekend because there were just too many people,” he said, adding that it took six hours to get back online.
“Business has just been flowing, and so we've been able to get our hands on essentially everything that's happened with Ordinals; we've had our hands in the pot in some way or form behind the scenes,” Laughlan said. "For example, we inscribed 90% of the Magic Eden drops for them last year.”
In February, ahead of the anticipated Runestone airdrop, OrdinalsBot teamed with Marathon Digital to mint the largest Inscription mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, the parent Runestone.

Bitcoin Ordinals startup OrdinalsBot—which helped mine the largest-ever Bitcoin block and is working with Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah on Ordinals—announced Tuesday that it surpassed its funding goal with a $3 million seed round led by DACM. The round brings OrdinalsBot’s total funding to over $4.5 million.

OrdinalsBot launched in February of last year after Casey Rodarmor released the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin for putting NFT-like media assets on-chain.
Initially, inscribing an Ordinal required several complex steps, including downloading the entire history of the Bitcoin blockchain (aka a full node). OrdinalsBot aims to streamline the inscription minting process for collectors and artists.
“The round was hot from day one, which was great. We've had really strong traction as one of the main Ordinals builder groups,” OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis told Decrypt in an exclusive interview. "It took us a couple of weeks to get to oversubscribed status, which is pretty good in fundraising, but I think Ordinals is the topic of the moment.”

The money, OrdinalsBot said, will be used to expand on its infrastructure, including hiring and launching an Ordinals inscription marketplace.
Joining DACM in the seed funding round are Eden Block, Nural Capital, WWVentures, Lightning Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, UTXO Management, Kenetic Capital, CMS Holdings, Kestrel0x1, Sora Ventures, London Real Ventures, Crypto Zombie, and MDX Crypto.
In addition to digital art, OrdinalsBot enables on-chain blogging and text uploads to the Bitcoin network via Scribe. It supports BRC-20 tokens (aka fungible tokens on Bitcoin), parent-child inscription hierarchies, and analytics and management through its API. For co-founder Brian Laughlan, the need for a seamless way to create Ordinals inscriptions was visible from the start.
“Basically, people were in Discord doing [over-the-counter trades],” Laughlan said. “Then we launched this product where it's just really easy, and then boom, instant product market fit—and it was just at a time when the Bitcoin Punks were minting as well.”


Traffic picked up for OrdinalsBot, Laughlan said, after it inadvertently became known to the public on Discord.
“I think in the end, like 80% of all those Punks basically came through our platform—the server completely melted that weekend because there were just too many people,” he said, adding that it took six hours to get back online.
“Business has just been flowing, and so we've been able to get our hands on essentially everything that's happened with Ordinals; we've had our hands in the pot in some way or form behind the scenes,” Laughlan said. "For example, we inscribed 90% of the Magic Eden drops for them last year.”
In February, ahead of the anticipated Runestone airdrop, OrdinalsBot teamed with Marathon Digital to mint the largest Inscription mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, the parent Runestone.

Bitcoin Ordinals startup OrdinalsBot—which helped mine the largest-ever Bitcoin block and is working with Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah on Ordinals—announced Tuesday that it surpassed its funding goal with a $3 million seed round led by DACM. The round brings OrdinalsBot’s total funding to over $4.5 million.

OrdinalsBot launched in February of last year after Casey Rodarmor released the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin for putting NFT-like media assets on-chain.
Initially, inscribing an Ordinal required several complex steps, including downloading the entire history of the Bitcoin blockchain (aka a full node). OrdinalsBot aims to streamline the inscription minting process for collectors and artists.
“The round was hot from day one, which was great. We've had really strong traction as one of the main Ordinals builder groups,” OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis told Decrypt in an exclusive interview. "It took us a couple of weeks to get to oversubscribed status, which is pretty good in fundraising, but I think Ordinals is the topic of the moment.”

The money, OrdinalsBot said, will be used to expand on its infrastructure, including hiring and launching an Ordinals inscription marketplace.
Joining DACM in the seed funding round are Eden Block, Nural Capital, WWVentures, Lightning Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, UTXO Management, Kenetic Capital, CMS Holdings, Kestrel0x1, Sora Ventures, London Real Ventures, Crypto Zombie, and MDX Crypto.
In addition to digital art, OrdinalsBot enables on-chain blogging and text uploads to the Bitcoin network via Scribe. It supports BRC-20 tokens (aka fungible tokens on Bitcoin), parent-child inscription hierarchies, and analytics and management through its API. For co-founder Brian Laughlan, the need for a seamless way to create Ordinals inscriptions was visible from the start.
“Basically, people were in Discord doing [over-the-counter trades],” Laughlan said. “Then we launched this product where it's just really easy, and then boom, instant product market fit—and it was just at a time when the Bitcoin Punks were minting as well.”


Traffic picked up for OrdinalsBot, Laughlan said, after it inadvertently became known to the public on Discord.
“I think in the end, like 80% of all those Punks basically came through our platform—the server completely melted that weekend because there were just too many people,” he said, adding that it took six hours to get back online.
“Business has just been flowing, and so we've been able to get our hands on essentially everything that's happened with Ordinals; we've had our hands in the pot in some way or form behind the scenes,” Laughlan said. "For example, we inscribed 90% of the Magic Eden drops for them last year.”
In February, ahead of the anticipated Runestone airdrop, OrdinalsBot teamed with Marathon Digital to mint the largest Inscription mined on the Bitcoin blockchain, the parent Runestone.