Bitcoin Digital Objects
BDOs are digitally ownable objects secured by Bitcoin. They can be owned, verified and carried independently from any platform.
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The Evolution of
Digital Ownership
For more than a decade, developers have explored different ways to represent digital ownership on Bitcoin. Drag the cube to explore each milestone.
Secured by Bitcoin.
Interoperable through open specifications.
BDO defines what a Bitcoin Digital Object is. STAS-01 — the first open specification for the category — defines how it can be represented and verified; its binding to a concrete protocol, today Taproot Assets, is defined through profiles. Implementations bring it to life.
The security and settlement layer. Ownership secured by Bitcoin is what defines the category.
An open category of digital objects that can be owned, verified and carried. Not a protocol; owned by no one.
Open specifications realize the category. STAS-01 is the first; bindings to concrete protocols — today, the Taproot Assets protocol — are defined through profiles.
Applications that build products and user experiences on top of the specifications.
An open standard for digital objects. What they represent is up to you.
BDO defines a minimal set of properties a digital object should have on Bitcoin: portability, verifiability and independence from any single platform. It doesn't prescribe use cases, business models or what people should do with their assets.
The object is not tied to the app that issued it. It can move across wallets, marketplaces and applications without asking for permission.
Authenticity, supply and history are provable by anyone against Bitcoin — no trusted intermediary required.
BDO doesn't decide what an object is for. Art, collectibles, tickets, credentials, financial instruments — the standard stays out of the way.
Understand the category in depth.
Reference pages, maintained from the open specifications: what a BDO is, the principles behind it, the STAS-01 specification, direct answers, and what exists today.
Multiple independent implementations can exist.
Each implementation follows the BDO principles while providing its own products and user experience.
Supermultiverse helps communities, brands and creators launch BDOs - ownership experiences secured by Bitcoin.
Brings Bitcoin Digital Objects to BTCPay Server, enabling merchants to issue, verify and transfer BDOs as part of their payment and commerce workflows.
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BDO is designed to host many independent implementations. Build one that follows the standard and it belongs here.
Read the standardEverything is open. Read it. Fork it. Build on it.
Answers, not marketing.
A BDO is a digitally ownable object whose existence, ownership and history are secured by Bitcoin. It is designed to be portable and independent from any single platform.
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