Inscription Revival or Reappearance?

Original: Odaily Planet Daily

Author: Golem

Is Inscription, which once stood at the starting point of this bull market, about to be revived?

In the recent downturn in the overall market, sluggish altcoin market, and lifeless Meme "junk market", a new inscription protocol HRC-20 on the BRC-20 and L1 rising star Hyperliquid chain has attracted attention in the community.

The total amount of BRC-20 "truck" token MASK, which needs to be minted 2.1 million times (10 per token), once raised the Bitcoin network gas to 14 satoshis/byte on the evening of February 23. It is one of the few "inscription trucks" that have the hope of being minted in the past few months and has a number of addresses exceeding 10,000. (Odaily Note: Inscription trucks refer to BRC20 tokens that require too many times of minting and require a lot of money and time.)

At the same time, the first HRC-20 token HYPI on Hyperliquid L1 was minted at 5:00 on February 21, with a total of 21 million tokens, which took 5 hours to mint. The official has spent $109,154.01 to bid for the Hyperliquid spot trading quota, and opened trading at 5:00 this morning, and launched the corresponding packaged asset wHYPI on the Hyperliquid spot trading market.

Inscription revival or a reappearance?

The growth of short-term FOMO sentiment often creates illusions for people who are in it.

MASK's popularity comes and goes quickly

The deployment time of the BRC-20 token MASK is March 10, 2023. Even at the peak of the BRC-20 inscription, it has not been minted, and some players were trapped at the highest position with a minting rate of 30 satoshis/byte last year.

Why is the "old antique" popular again? There are two kinds of speculations circulating in the community. One is that MASK is really a "miner conspiracy", where miners cast a large number of MASKs to create an illusion of prosperity on the chain, making players FOMO and earn more Bitcoin fees; the second speculation is that MASK is a new "inscription ground promotion", which relies on the "mysterious oriental power". No matter which one it is, as long as it can bring continuous traffic and popularity to the inscription, it is a good thing.

On February 23, the MASK minting progress reached 70%, and the unit price of MASK in the OKX inscription market was $0.3. It was originally thought that MASK would be minted on February 24 and continue to push up the price due to community sentiment, but the MASK enthusiasm faded faster than expected. As of today (February 25), its progress has only reached 88%, and the unit price of MASK has fallen to $0.1. Looking back at the price on February 23, it was already the peak.

Maybe MASK will eventually be minted, but the final outcome will most likely be the same as the inscription truck eorb, which also has 2.1 million copies, and it will gradually disappear.

HRC-20 performance falls short of expectations

HRC-20 is a homogeneous token standard launched by the inscription protocol HPS Protocol on Hyperliquid L1. HPS Protocol introduced the concept of Hyperscriptions on Hyperliquid L1 and HyperEVM. HYPI is the first officially issued HRC-20 token and the only HRC-20 token currently, with 2231 holding addresses.

Currently, almost all functions of the HPS Protocol platform are unavailable, and users cannot deploy and transfer HRC-20 tokens independently. Therefore, in order to quickly start trading, HPS Protocol chose to first list HYPI's wrapped asset wHYPI on the Hyperliquid spot trading market. The address holding HYPI will receive a 1:1 wHYPI airdrop when trading is opened. After the official HRC-20 market is launched, users can directly redeem wHYPI for HYPI, and the total circulation of HYPI and wHYPI will always be maintained at 21 million.

The casting cost of a single HYPI (100 pieces per sheet) is US$2-3. Before it was launched on the Hyperliquid spot market, the highest double-pledge transaction price in the community's over-the-counter market was as high as US$25 per sheet, with an estimated market value of US$5.25 million, which is about 10 times the casting cost.

I thought that after the launch of Hyperliquid spot market, HYPI, as the first inscription on the Hyperliquid chain, would have