{"id":28959,"date":"2025-05-28T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28959"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:18:01","slug":"bitcoin-ordinals-can-now-be-bridged-to-cardano-through-bitvmx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28959","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Ordinals Can Now Be Bridged to Cardano Through BitVMX"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cardano has continued to advance its credentials as a venue for Bitcoin Defi (BTCFi), facilitating a transfer of Ordinals to its mainnet.<\/p>\n<p>The on-chain transaction between Bitcoin and Cardano was facilitated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/04\/08\/rootstock-prepares-to-release-sdks-for-bitcoin-layer-2s-using-bitvmx\">BitVMX<\/a>, an interoperability protocol built using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/video\/bitvm-is-a-compilation-of-a-couple-tricks-to-overcome-limitations-of-bitcoins-script-robin-linus\">BitVM<\/a> programming language. <\/p>\n<p>The transaction was unveiled by Input | Output (IO), the creator of the layer 1 Cardano, at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge represents a &#8220;preview of what is to come,&#8221; IO said in an emailed announcement. Its ultimate aim is a full integration between Bitcoin and Cardano, providing DeFi services for BTC users and unlocking huge amounts of liquidity from the value stored in bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, IO has developed the &#8220;Cardinal&#8221; protocol, a portmanteau of Cardano and Ordinals, which harnesses BitVMX to assign Bitcoin-native assets to addresses on Cardano.<\/p>\n<p>The Ordinals protocol was introduced at the start of 2023, enabling the inscription of data onto individual satoshis (the smallest BTC denomination, equivalent to one 100 millionth of a bitcoin), this making them unique and traceable. In effect, this created a Bitcoin equivalent of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/05\/27\/bitlayer-joins-forces-with-antpool-f2pool-and-spiderpool-to-supercharge-bitcoin-defi\">Bitlayer Joins Forces With Antpool, F2Pool, and SpiderPool to Supercharge Bitcoin DeFi<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardano has continued to advance its credentials as a venue for Bitcoin Defi (BTCFi), facilitating a transfer of Ordinals to its mainnet. The on-chain transaction between Bitcoin and Cardano was facilitated by BitVMX, an interoperability protocol built using the BitVM programming language. The transaction was unveiled by Input | Output (IO), the creator of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}