From the blockchain gaming summit to the inscription town hall, where will the next wave of inscription wealth opportunities emerge?
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From the blockchain gaming summit to the inscription town hall, where will the next wave of inscription wealth opportunities emerge?
Inscriptions have three key characteristics: fair launch, full circulation, and maximizing returns from minimal investments to the extreme.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Melon Field Lab W Labs
The crypto world lately? Let's just say it can be perfectly described by a classic Chinese black comedy film title — "Crazy Inscriptions." Over the past two weeks, we’ve been conducting interviews and wrap-ups for various 2023 blockchain gaming projects. Ironically, more than one founder has complained to me that their teams aren’t getting work done anymore — everyone’s rushing into inscriptions. If you push them slightly, young employees will even threaten to quit and go all-in on minting inscriptions full time... I can only smile bitterly. It’s the same at W Labs — our work chat groups are now dominated by inscription talk. Even MOD job postings offering fixed monthly salaries plus NFT airdrops are getting barely any responses, despite the fact that just months ago these would’ve been fiercely competed opportunities. Blockchain gaming may be one of the hottest sectors recently, but compared to the mania around inscriptions, it’s nothing short of dwarfed. Research articles aren’t being written either. The only reason I’m writing this piece is because I had no choice — had to pick up the pen myself to fill the gap. Haha.
Of course, I’m chasing inscriptions too. When a bull market comes, better get yourself involved early — stake some skin in the game first, then study it. Helps cure laziness. This article shares my personal views — purely random ramblings, not investment advice whatsoever.
1. What’s so special about inscriptions?
For users, inscriptions have three key features: fair launch, fully circulating supply, and extreme low-to-high leverage potential. For project teams, they offer one major advantage: seemingly no central team, thus lower legal risk. However, as the profit-driven frenzy spreads through the Web3 user base, these characteristics are rapidly eroding.
First, the much-touted “fair launch” only existed during early projects like Ordi earlier this year. Today’s new inscription teams likely coordinate mints in advance and use batch bots — well, human nature, no judgment here.
Second, full circulation is already being challenged. Yesterday, an inscription launched with 50% reserved for DeFi and GameFi staking.
Third, the original idea of “small bet, huge return” — spending just a few dollars in gas for hundreds of mints hoping to land a few thousand-dollar returns — is now broken. With current gas fees, each mint costs $20–30. Spend $3,000 on 100 mints, only to find someone else minted ahead of you and you end up off-index — your $3,000 in gas burned for nothing.
Fourth, whether it’s pre-coordinated bots or colluding with OTC traders to pump prices — can we really still claim there’s “no project team”?
2. Will inscriptions keep booming this bull run?
One word: yes. Compare the hype cycles from last cycle’s NFT profile pictures and the previous cycle’s ICOs — subjectively speaking, inscription mania hasn’t reached peak insanity yet. Another critical point: inscriptions are currently the only genuinely new asset class to emerge in this bull market, leaving plenty of narrative space to explore. Lastly, every veteran crypto miner has the same goal — keep gas fees high. They need to make money, so these old Web3 whales will clearly take sides and support the trend.
How should one approach upcoming inscription projects? Everyone has their own strategy. Here are a few ideas for fellow melon enthusiasts:
2.1 Focus on innovative inscription projects with real utility in Web3 applications — memes with actual functional integration;
2.2 Don’t blindly rush in short-term — gas fees alone can wreck you unless you’re an insider who knows the roadmap. Instead, focus on projects with strong exchange listing potential — even buying on secondary markets isn’t bad (WGGDAO Melon Community VIP channel has summarized several);
2.3 Watch older, legacy inscriptions — signs suggest new big players are entering. Take BRC-20’s OXBT and Deed, both up 4–5x recently. From fundamentals, they represent two types: OXBT was previously hot with 16,000 holders, strong consensus, long accumulation phase; Deed is small-cap, easy for a minor whale to control without massive capital.
3. Final thoughts on the future of inscriptions
The first wave of “get rich quick” opportunities via inscriptions is over. Stop dreaming of being the next Satoshi who quietly mined BTC for a year, or hoping for another ORDI windfall. Any similar rags-to-riches stories going forward will likely be orchestrated by whales dropping attention-grabbing news — completely irrelevant to average retail players.
The second wave of alpha — smaller returns but still profitable — remains viable. Exchange listings, for example, can unlock massive liquidity. When ORDI first listed on Gate.io, it spiked to 29 USDT, but large holders could only exit OTC at 20 USDT. Now, Binance and OKX spot markets allow easy exits. So keep an eye on inscriptions with strong listing expectations — you know what I mean.
Finally, identify the first project that brings real utility to inscriptions — whether through DeFi, GameFi, SocialFi, or whatever-Fi — something that integrates inscriptions into practical application models, economically or commercially. W Labs has been researching this for nearly two months and made some progress. We welcome discussions with friends who have fresh ideas in this area. Any inscription project that succeeds here might just become the next ORDI, SATS, or RATS.
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