You joined a community. You went to an event. You mined your first block. An artifact is the small proof of it. Eighty bytes on the BTX chain, kept under post quantum keys, open for anyone to verify, and made to last. The first edition is Relics. You earn it, you never buy it.
This is a community protocol. It is not an official BTX feature. The BTX chain does not store files on purpose, and we think that is the right call. Artifacts keeps only a tiny fingerprint on chain, never the file itself, inside the rules the chain already has. It works exactly the way we built it, but the BTX core team still has to accept it, and we have asked them. Either way it stays open and permissionless. The first edition, Relics, is earned and free. Nothing here is an investment or financial advice.
BTX will not hold a picture file. So an artifact does not store a picture. It stores the recipe for one. This glyph is built from a transaction hash by a fixed rule. The same hash always draws the same glyph, on any computer, in any year. No server. No file. Give it a click.
A hash cannot be turned back into a picture. It is a one way fingerprint. But it can do two other useful things, and Artifacts uses both.
1. It can be an address. Stored as an IPFS block id, the same 32 bytes that prove your data also point to where it lives. One field does both jobs at once.
2. It can be a seed. Feed it to an open renderer and the art rebuilds itself from chain data alone, like the one on the left, with nothing to host and nothing to lose.
A single OP_RETURN output, inside the BTX data limit of 83 bytes that has been in consensus since the very first block. The artifact itself is an ordinary BTX coin. Whoever can spend it owns it. Sending an artifact is just a normal transaction.
Every chain has NFTs. BTX gets something simpler and more honest. Six shapes of proof, each using the same 80 bytes in its own way.
The 32 bytes are the fingerprint of your data, and also its IPFS address. Rich art, with a link that proves itself.
schema 0The art is built from the mint transaction hash by an open renderer. It rebuilds from the chain forever. One of a kind by nature.
schema 0, seededThe 32 bytes are the picture. A 16 by 16 pixel mark kept fully on chain, with nothing hosted. This cat is drawn live from the real bytes below.
Proof you did the thing. Joined, attended, mined block N. No picture needed. The fact is the artifact.
soulboundArtifacts that change. Vouchers that redeem, memberships that level up. Every change is a new entry in the token's own history.
op STATEWe aim at BTX layer one today, inside the block budget of about 2 MB every 90 seconds. If an EVM style layer two called EVX arrives later, artifacts can bridge up for richer logic, while layer one stays the source of truth.
L1 first, L2 maybeThe six kinds above are how the bytes work. Editions are what an artifact is for. One protocol, many kinds of keepsake. We open with Relics and grow from there.
Keepsakes for the earliest BTX community. You were here. You mined the first blocks. You joined at the start. Earned, free, a memento of the beginning. This is the opening edition.
Two people sign, and one artifact carries both wallets and the fingerprint of the agreement in its data. A cryptographic handshake on BTX. The start of contracts, signatures and real world asset records, a chain native cousin of DocuSign. Professional, and later.
Collectible drops. Lattice Cats, Schrödinger's Cats, Qubit Cats. Playful, generative, limited. The edition that brings new people onto BTX and into bonuz. We may use btx.cat for these.
On the chain an artifact is 80 bytes. Soon it will also live in the bonuz wallet as a picture you can hold, show and share. Your Relics, your Cats, your Seals, drawn as real art with proof one tap away. BTX keeps it safe. bonuz will make it human. And every claim becomes a new bonuz user. This part is on the way.
Generative art from the seed, glyphs from their bytes, linked art fetched and checked. It will all show as pictures, never as code.
Claim an artifact and you will have a bonuz wallet and a post quantum BTX address. The keepsake becomes the front door to the whole ecosystem.
Join a community, show up at an event, mine your first block with easyBTX. Relics are earned by what you do. There is no mint button and no price.
About 80 bytes settle on BTX in a 90 second block. Your artifact now exists, anyone can verify it, and it waits safely until you want it.
Claim it to your own post quantum address. From then on only your keys can move it, keys built to outlast quantum computers.
No, and it cannot be. Ordinals hides big files inside Bitcoin witness data. BTX rules forbid exactly that, from the first block. Artifacts works with the rules instead. Tiny fingerprints on chain, art found by link or built from a seed. Think of it as the opposite of Ordinals that still gives you the art.
No. It is an open protocol built by the bonuz and easyBTX community on top of normal BTX transactions. It needs no fork and no change to the chain. We have shared the spec with the BTX team and asked them to bless the name. The protocol stays open either way.
The first edition, Relics, is free and earned. It is a keepsake, not an investment, and nothing here is financial advice. Later collectible drops such as the Cats may be limited editions, always clearly, separately, and within the law. We will never dress a keepsake up as a security, and we do not promise any price.
An artifact minted when two or more people agree. It carries both wallets and the fingerprint of what was signed, right in the data. A cryptographic handshake anchored on BTX. Today it is a concept. The direction is contracts, signatures and real world asset records once the basics are proven.
Yes. The plan is to show them as real pictures in the bonuz wallet. Generative art from the seed, glyphs from their bytes, linked art fetched and checked. On the chain it is 80 bytes. In your wallet it is a gallery.
Two honest risks. If you hold it yourself, the artifact is a coin, and a wallet that does not know about artifacts could spend it as a fee. So use the artifact address the claim flow gives you. Also BTX is young, and while it is small a deep chain reorder is cheaper than on Bitcoin, so an artifact shows as pending until about ten blocks. Keepsakes first, valuables later, on purpose.
Yes, that is why the spec is open. The byte format, the indexer rules, a small reference indexer and a regtest test run are all published. If you can read an OP_RETURN, you can build a viewer, a wallet plugin or your own collection.
BTX Artifacts. An open community protocol. Editions: Relics, Seals, Cats. Built by the team behind easyBTX in the bonuz ecosystem.
Not affiliated with the BTX core team, and pending their acceptance. No financial advice and no price predictions. The Relics edition is free and carries no monetary value. Spec and reference code live in the easyBTX repo under src/artifacts.