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The BRC-20 token standard uses Bitcoin ordinal inscriptions to enable the minting and transfer of fungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain. At the time of this writing, there are 14,450 different tokens minted, with $206 million in 24-hour trading volume and a market cap of half a billion dollars.