Atomicals family
Atomicals is a family rather than a single protocol: coloured satoshis, non-fungible assets, a namespace, and a virtual machine.
Read the release column carefully on this page. Every workspace here is behind a deployment gate, and one of them is not finished.
| Protocol | Chain | Creation operations | Released | Workspace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARC-20arc-20 | Bitcoin | deployminttransfer | ReleasedA build must switch it on | /arc20 |
| Atomicalsatomical | Bitcoin | minttransfer | ReleasedA build must switch it on | /atomicals |
| Atomicals NFTsatomicals-nft, atomicals_nfts | Bitcoin | minttransfer | ReleasedA build must switch it on | /atomicals-nfts |
| AVMavm-assets, atomicals-avm | Bitcoin | deploy | Not released | /avm-studio |
| Realmsrealm, atomicals-realms | Bitcoin | minttransfer | ReleasedA build must switch it on | /atomicals-realms |
| Subrealmssubrealm, atomicals-subrealms | Bitcoin | minttransfer | ReleasedA build must switch it on | /atomicals-realms |
What “a deployment must switch it on” means here
Section titled “What “a deployment must switch it on” means here”A gated workspace stays visible and reachable by its URL when its flag is off. What stops is reading, writing, payment and order recovery, so the page can be open and still refuse to act. It says which it is.
The workspace stays visible on purpose: a missing workspace looks like a product that never had the feature.
ARC-20
Section titled “ARC-20”Coloured-sat tokens. Deploy, mint and transfer.
The mechanic that makes ARC-20 different: the satoshis are the tokens. A balance is carried by the output value itself rather than by a separate ledger entry.
The practical consequence for you is at signing time. ARC-20 signs directly with your wallet and has no payment-address step, so expect a transaction to approve rather than a commit address to pay.
Workspace: /arc20. Released, and a deployment must switch it on.
Atomicals and Atomicals NFTs
Section titled “Atomicals and Atomicals NFTs”/atomicals carries the general operations panel. /atomicals-nfts handles non-fungible
assets, with explore, portfolio, transfer and mint, plus modification and event operations.
The production contract records the Atomicals family through its NFT and Realms entries rather than a general Atomicals one.
Both are released, and a deployment must switch them on.
Realms and Subrealms
Section titled “Realms and Subrealms”Names in the Atomicals namespace. A realm is a top-level name; a subrealm sits under one.
Subrealms have no workspace of their own. They are claimed and paid for inside the Realms workspace, which runs a claim and then a payment as two parts of one sequence rather than a single mint.
Workspace: /atomicals-realms for both. Released, and a deployment must switch them on.
AVM Studio
Section titled “AVM Studio”Not released. The production contract classifies AVM as incomplete.
The workspace is reachable, and its contract editor and academy are usable for learning and
experimentation. Deploying a contract is not a released operation, and the registry
records deploy as the only operation for AVM, so there is nothing here you should plan a
launch around.
Workspace: /avm-studio. Not released.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Status and lifecycle, for what each release state means
- Coverage matrix
- Mint a token