# ordinals/ord

👁‍🗨 Rare and exotic sats

Repository: https://github.com/ordinals/ord
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ord
Homepage: https://ordinals.com
Language: Rust
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: bitcoin, art, rust
Last push: 2026-08-20T23:06:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 96, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1725, "days_push": 13, "days_rel": 28, "gap_med": 16, "n_releases_24m": 22}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3969, forks 1479 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:30.789592+00:00)

## What it is
ord is an index, block explorer, and command-line wallet for Bitcoin ordinals, which assign serial numbers to satoshis based on mining order. It enables tracking, inscribing, and trading rare and exotic sats, relying on Bitcoin Core for key management.

## Use cases
- index bitcoin satoshis with ordinal numbers
- run a local ordinals block explorer
- create and manage bitcoin inscriptions
- send and receive rare sats from the command line
- look up which satoshi is in a utxo
- track inscription transfers on bitcoin

## When to choose
- you need a self-hosted ordinals indexer and explorer
- you want CLI-based inscription and sat control
- you're building tooling on top of ordinal theory

## When to avoid
- you need a wallet holding significant funds (ord warns against this)
- you want a GUI-only bitcoin wallet
- you need non-bitcoin blockchain support

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, database, search-engine, cryptography
- domain: blockchain, developer-tools
- platform: rust, cli, windows
- tags: bitcoin, ordinals, satoshis, block-explorer, wallet, inscriptions, nft, cryptocurrency, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- ordinals/ord (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.789592+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:24:22.925871+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ordinals/ord (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.789592+00:00, sha 547bac9fa6ed)
  - homepage: https://ordinals.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:17:48.008096+00:00, sha 3dd6ba0e947c)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/ord (fetched 2026-08-29T09:17:48.017695+00:00, sha ea94500f5914)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.