Ordinals manifesto

1. Ordinals were already fine as they were. Memes, art, subversion, technology, and culture. Everything that came after only generated greed and pump and dump. We have to keep it real.

2. We need to take Ordinals projects out of endogamy and bring them into the real world. Art created within Ordinals deserves to enter museums, galleries, and cultural institutions.

3. Quality over community. Communities must be born from strong cultural products and sustain them — not replace them. Otherwise, it just becomes an endogamic thing.

4. Reject the talk about liquidity, volume, and fees. That language only brings greed and opportunists to the ecosystem, and the same thing that happened to NFTs will happen again. The moment people talk more about the Basquiat market than Basquiat’s art, Basquiat will have truly died.

5. Keep building a narrative around technology, culture, art, the project’s lore, and its creators. If we want Ordinals to grow, it must seduce new people with its message of avant-garde. These people might not understand finance or technology, but they can understand a story.

6. Avoid pump and dump projects at all costs — those based purely on fee marketing. Defend projects of high technical and creative quality. In the long term, they are the only ones that will survive.

7. Think long-term. No movement matters because of its moment, but because of its influence on the future. There were only thirteen people at the Last Supper.

8. Decentralization is not just a technical matter — it’s an ethical one. Every creator is their own archive, their own museum. Defending independence and freedom is also a form of art.

9. Document, preserve, archive. What isn’t documented gets lost. Just like art — which is a great archive of its time — every Ordinal project must be thought of as a cultural archive. Preserve processes, ideas, context, and versions. We are building digital history.

10. Keep the play and the mystery alive. Ordinals were born from humor, anonymity, and experimentation. Not everything has to be explained or sold. The enigma is part of the art.