ord is an index, block explorer, and command-line wallet.
Ordinals are serial numbers for satoshis, assigned in the order in which they are mined, and preserved across transactions.
See the BIP for a comprehensive description of the assignment and transfer algorithm.
See the project board for currently prioritized issues.
See milestones to get a sense of where the project is and where it's going.
Join the Discord server to chat with fellow ordinal degenerates.
ord is written in Rust and can be built from
source. Pre-built binaries are available on the
releases page.
You can install the latest pre-built binary from the command line with:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsLS https://ordinals.com/install.sh | bash -sOnce ord is installed, you should be able to run ord --version on the
command line.
ord requires a synced bitcoind node with -txindex to build the index of
ordinal locations. ord communicates with bitcoind via RPC.
If bitcoind is run locally by the same user, without additional
configuration, ord should find it automatically by reading the .cookie file
from bitcoind's datadir, and connecting using the default RPC port.
If bitcoind is not on mainnet, is not run by the same user, has a non-default
datadir, or a non-default port, you'll need to pass additional flags to ord.
See ord --help for details.
ord uses env_logger. Set the
RUST_LOG environment variable in order to turn on logging. For example, run
the server and show info-level log messages and above:
$ RUST_LOG=info cargo run server