HOSTED COLLECTIONS
FIRST EXHIBITION
Aries Orbitals
MINTED OUT
3,000 pieces. 3,000 offered in the public round — minted out.
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Aries Honorary
Upcoming
333 pieces. Each a 1/1 designed by its holder.
Free, for the top 300 addresses at the Snapshot and the 33 OG builders — under the Aries Honorary Rules.
Follows shortly after the public round; no date is promised.
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ORBITALS: THE END GAME FOR NFTS ON BITCOIN
Until now, most NFTs were tokens pointing to content hosted off-chain. While there are many possibilities for Orbitals, for now Open Orbit will focus on two types: an Orbital is either data on Bitcoin that the chain itself can redraw forever, or an Orbital can point to content inscribed on Bitcoin.
The image is data, not a file.
A data-rendered Orbital's artwork is a few kilobytes of data recorded on Bitcoin. What you see is an SVG drawn fresh from that data every time it is viewed — everything lives on the Bitcoin blockchain, so nothing can go missing.
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The collection contract carries its own renderer. When a wallet or marketplace displays a piece, it calls the contract's view function, which builds the SVG from the piece's traits on demand. There is no image server to break, move, or take down — the artwork is a computation the chain can always repeat. Welcome to the age of digital permanence.
Ordinals and Orbitals.
Ordinals made content permanent on Bitcoin: files inscribed on sats, immutable and brilliant. Orbitals are the next step: non-fungible tokens that live on Bitcoin, with real standardized metadata and logic. An Ordinal is a permanent file. An Orbital is a living token that can make Ordinals programmable.
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An inscription binds content to a satoshi and tracks it by ordinal theory — ideal for permanence & immutability. An Orbital is an asset issued by a contract on the Alkanes protocol: its metadata is queryable contract state in a standard shape rather than a naming convention, and its rules — supply, phases, entitlements — are enforced by code anyone can verify against the chain. And the two compose: an Orbital's contract can reference inscribed Ordinals content as permanent building material. Welcome to the age of programmable Ordinals.
Alkanes & Protorunes
Protorunes extend the Runes protocol with programmable functionality. Each Alkane is a special type of Protorune that contains executable WASM code. Alkanes contracts are smart contracts that run on Bitcoin, enabling programmable functionality similar to what Ethereum smart contracts provide. They allow developers to create decentralized applications (dApps) directly on Bitcoin's L1 blockchain, without requiring additional layers or sidechains.
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Contracts are written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly, and execute against Bitcoin transactions; mints, transfers, and view calls all ride the chain, and anyone running an indexer re-derives the complete state independently. Contracts interact directly with Bitcoin transactions and UTXOs and can interact with each other, as Bitcoin native as possible. The wider stack — including SUBFROST is the settlement and liquidity layer beside Alkanes: contracts can hold frBTC and frUSD, and settle back to Bitcoin. subfrost.io — extends what these contracts can hold and do, all settling on Bitcoin.
WHAT ORBITALS MAKE POSSIBLE
Programmable pieces
Mint phases, wallet limits, and earned entitlements — like the Aries collection's Honorary round — are contract rules collectors can verify onchain, not promises on a website.
Real, standardized metadata
Traits and provenance live as queryable state in a standard shape. Wallets, marketplaces, and tools all read the same truth from the chain. Our goal is to set the highest standard that makes it simple for all marketplaces to integrate Orbitals.
Composable with Ordinals
Orbitals can use inscribed Ordinals content as permanent building blocks — programmable tokens assembled from immutable material, all on Bitcoin.
THE ULTIMATE GOAL
We ultimately want Open Orbit to become a DAO that is owned by the community, where art collections submitted for review are chosen by trustless voting. For now Aries Labs handles the curation. This is just the beginning — the exploratory stage to discover the possibilities. If you have an innovative idea, submit the form below for review and let's work together to make it happen.
AN ARIES LABS PRODUCT
Aries Labs builds for the Alkanes builder community. The Aries Labs Alkanes MCP is the AI-native front door for building on the Alkanes Protocol and utilizing SUBFROST as a developer — in its private era today; public access returns, and no date is promised. Proceeds from Open Orbit go toward the tools and the builders. Aries Labs did not create Bitcoin, Alkanes or SUBFROST. We build on them.
FOR ARTISTS
Submit your collection for review.
Open Orbit is curated. Every submission is read and every listed collection is selected by hand — selection is not guaranteed, and no timeline is promised. If your work belongs on Bitcoin, show us.
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