{"id":4257,"date":"2023-05-03T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadingcryptonews.com\/bitcoin-brc-20-token-standard-becomes-a-new-destination-for-meme-tokens\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T13:00:49","slug":"bitcoin-brc-20-token-standard-becomes-a-new-destination-for-meme-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadingcryptonews.com\/bitcoin-brc-20-token-standard-becomes-a-new-destination-for-meme-tokens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin BRC-20 token standard becomes a new destination for meme tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bitcoin\u2019s BRC-20 token standard has become the latest trend in the crypto ecosystem, especially after the Pepe (PEPE) memecoin rise in recent months. A total of 8,500 different tokens have been minted using the BRC-20 standard, with the majority of these BRC-20 tokens being memecoins, such as PEPE and Memetic (MEME).<\/p>\n
BRC-20 is an experimental token standard on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain modeled on Ethereum\u2019s ERC-20. It allows programmers to create and send fungible tokens via the Ordinals protocol. <\/p>\n
Although modeled after ERC-20, the BRC-20 token standard fundamentally differs from its Ethereum-based counterpart. BRC-20 tokens don\u2019t make use of smart contracts. The token standard also requires a Bitcoin wallet to mint and trade these tokens.<\/p>\n
The BRC-20 token standard was created\u00a0early in March by an anonymous on-chain analyst called Domo. The objective was to make it possible for fungible tokens to be issued and transferred on the Bitcoin blockchain. The market cap of BRC-20 tokens has exploded over the past month and currently sits at $120 million, a 600% rise in the past week.<\/p>\n