On-chain video games for BTC will become a reality? Inscriptions get a revolutionary upgrade

In recent months, the BTC inscription has generated a huge amount of buzz, splitting the BTC community into two factions. And the latest upgrade, "Recursive (recursive) inscription" may be equally controversial, because this upgrade will allow inscriptions to "indirectly" break the 4MB block space limit.

"Ordinal mastermind Casey Rodarmor just came up with recursive glyphs, now the real fun begins," Charlie Spears tweeted.

The idea is similar to BRC721, Although the size of each individual inscription does not exceed 4MB, the combined inscription can already break through this limit.

Earlier this year, the Ordinal protocol introduced the ability to fully burn any file smaller than 4MB on-chain. But there is also a limitation in this, different inscriptions do not know each other, nor can they quote each other.

This will change with the introduction of recursive glyphs.

As summarized by a well-known Ordinal member who goes by the handle "Leonidas.og" on Twitter, Inscriptions are now able to use a special syntax to request content from other Inscriptions, which will benefit Ordinal supporters Open the door to new use cases.

"For example, instead of burning 10000 JPEG files for a PFP collection alone (which would be very expensive), burn 200 traits from the collection, and then make 10000 inscriptions, each using a small amount of code to request the traits and render them programmatically image”, explains Leonidas.

In the case of BTC Apes, this would save over a million dollars in transaction fees.

Also, 3D art can now find its way onto the blockchain in addition to the existing JPGs.

"But we can think bigger," writes Leonidas, who sees another new use case for uploading code bundles for complex applications.

Ordinal Hub said on Twitter that the BTC Core client can be stored on the blockchain as a new use case.

BTC Core is about 15MB in size, which was previously too large due to the block size limit, but recursive inscriptions will be the new solution.

"Imagine that we could divide BTC Core into several parts, only load an executable front end, and then the program "calls" the code it needs from other inscriptions, which allows you to run BTC on BTC."

Additionally, complex 3D video games will soon be able to run entirely on BTC, according to the Ordinal community. Developers can split the game into multiple inscriptions containing different code snippets and display them in a single inscription.

Leonidas concluded: “BTC is essentially an intranet where every file can request data from every other file. The official Ordinal explorer and explorers like ord.io will soon support recursion inscriptions, and turn them into a valid BTC web browser. Have fun in the world of BTC!"

All in all, it remains to be seen how the Ordinal community will embrace the new upgrade, and contentious discussions seem inevitable.