Zerdinals

Digital artifacts recorded on Zcash, with explicit handling of the difference between transparent and shielded activity.

Chain

Zcash

Carrier

Zcash transaction data

Ownership model

utxo

Operations

inscribe, transfer

Also written

universe-zerdinals

Where it came from

An original Bitcoin Universe protocol, published 2025.

Digital artifacts native to Zcash, with transparent and shielded considerations.

Where the specification lives

The specification and reference documentation for Zerdinals live in bitcoinuniverseio/docs-zerdinals-and-zrunes and are published at https://bitcoinuniverseio.github.io/docs-zerdinals-and-zrunes/. That site is the authority. This page exists so you can find it and compare it with the rest of the estate.

Bitcoin Universe indexes or implements it in bitcoinuniverseio/index-zcash-metaprotocols.

Support in Bitcoin Universe products

Zerdinals has no marketplace entry in the Core protocol registry, so no Bitcoin Universe product implements a trade path for it. Where a Universe indexer exists, the data is available through that indexer rather than through a product surface.

Provenance

Capability facts on this page were generated from backend/packages/ecosystem-contracts/lib/protocols.js in bitcoinuniverseio/core at 15dd03b5986a. Implemented behaviour is not the same as production availability: see how to read our status.