Guides
Task-oriented procedures for holding, inspecting, issuing, moving, and trading Atomicals safely.
Editorial Verified 2026-08-31
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- Networks
- mainnet
- Documentation version
- 2026.08
- Audience
- everyone
- Owner
- bitcoin-universe-docs
Every guide here follows the same shape, so you always know what you are about to do before you do it.
| Section | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Before you start | Prerequisites, supported networks, and current support status |
| What you need | Exact inputs |
| What happens | Expected outputs and what your wallet will ask |
| Cost | Fee behavior for this specific action |
| Check before signing | The safety checks for this action |
| If it fails | Named failure cases and what each means |
| After broadcast | How to verify the result, and reorg considerations |
| Source | The normative page behind the procedure |
Set up
Section titled “Set up”- Choose a wallet
The capabilities that make a wallet safe for Atomicals, and how to test for them.
- Prepare BTC and UTXOs
Build a cardinal pool for fees so a coloured output is never selected by accident.
- Protect coloured outputs
The working separation between asset money and fee money.
- Fees and costs
What you actually pay: commit, reveal, grinding, marketplace fees.
Inspect
Section titled “Inspect”- Inspect an address
Read outpoints, not totals, and understand what a total hides.
- Inspect an Atomical
Identity, location, history, and sealed state.
- Inspect a ticker
Resolve a name to the Atomical that actually holds it.
- Verify a transaction
Confirm what a transaction did before and after broadcast.
- Confirmations and reorgs
When a result is settled enough to act on.
- Unavailable index or empty balance
The difference that causes most false alarms.
Issue and mint
Section titled “Issue and mint”- Direct FT issuance
One transaction, one complete supply. Protocol behavior, not exposed by Universe.
- Deploy a fixed DFT
Set the mint rules others will claim against.
- Deploy a perpetual DFT
Activation gated, with progressing Bitwork.
- Mint ARC-20
Claim against a deployment without wasting a fee.
- Mint an NFT
Payload, media, and the decisions that are permanent.
- Create a Container
A collection identity that items can prove membership in.
- Create DMINT items
Seal the manifest first, then open minting.
- Claim a Realm
Request a top-level name and confirm it resolved.
- Claim a Subrealm
Satisfy a parent's rules, including payment.
- Resolve Unicode names
Normalise, compare, and detect confusable names.
Move and recover
Section titled “Move and recover”- Transfer ARC-20
Build a transfer that places every unit and burns nothing.
- Split and combine
Reshape your lots deliberately.
- Avoid burns
The procedure that prevents every burn shape.
- Recover from a rejection
A rejected transaction is recoverable. Here is how.
- Wallet signing failures
Capability, encoding, and flag problems, diagnosed.
- List an ARC-20 lot
Prove ownership, prepare, sign, finalise.
- List an NFT or Realm
The extra check names carry.
- Update or remove a listing
Change a price or delist safely.
- Offers
Make, cancel, and accept an offer.
- Buy on the marketplace
Reserve, prepare, sign, broadcast.
- Verify settlement
Confirm the trade actually completed.