How to List an Ordinals Collection

## Listing an Ordinals Collection

#### Parent Child Ordinals

Parent Child Ordinals are planned as a future way of designating a collection, but as of the writing of this guide many marketplaces still use a manual or NOSTR based system to add and maintain collections of bitcoin ordinals. This guide is for creators and collections that existed before parent child inscriptions create a more standardized way of organizing ordinals/inscriptions into collections.

## Listing a collection on Ordswap Marketplace

To get your collection listed on Ordswap, you must create a support ticket in the Ordswap Discord. I advise doing this from a device that has no access to bitcoin or other critical systems that must stay secure.

https://discord.gg/Hp3NQFHJV8

You do not need to connect a wallet to verify, connecting a wallet is only for very early inscriptions to verify ownership for flair. Connecting a wallet is not necessary to list a collection. Never connect a wallet to anything discord related and never trust links in discord or private messages.

Once you have solved a captcha or other verification, scroll down to the SUPPORT section and click support tickets, you will get a drop down box where you can select the option \*I want to list my collection on Ordswap\*

Once you make a support ticket request, they will ask you to create a text file with the following:

1. What is the range of your inscription numbers? (50k - 65k)

2. How many have you inscribed?

3. Have you held your initial sale? If not, when do you plan to do so?

4. What are your social media links? Here is the template for listing a collection

Follow the bot's instructions on formatting the file and if you get stuck somewhere, you can ask in the r/BitcoinOrdinals reddit for help.

## Listing a collection on OpenOrdex, Ordinals Wallet, and all the NOSTR-based Marketplaces.

The best marketplaces use NOSTR and PSBTs to produce a decentralized method of listing ordinals for sale or auction across many different marketplaces all at once. To have your collection listed on these true-defi marketplaces, you need to create a short bit of code for your collection and submit it to an automated github bot. First, make sure this information is still current by reading the github page's guide first:

https://github.com/ordinals-wallet/ordinals-collections#getting-started

First, you need to create 2 files for your collection, "`inscriptions.json"` and "`meta.json". You can make this process easier by using the ordinals metadata composer interface provided here:` https://ordinals-metadata-composer.vercel.app/

Here is what the file looks like for Blockchain Fossils collection, which we will use as an example:

Once you have these 2 files created as in the above example, next go to "add file" -> "create new file".

Before the files can be added, we need to add a folder with the name of your collection. To make a new folder, type the name of your collection as it appears under "slug" in the meta.json file you created, and add a "/" at the end to signify you want to make it a folder. The name of the last collection I helped list was "Blockchain Fossils" for example, so i typed "blockchain-fossils/" with no quotes. This is the name of your collection's folder, so it cannot contain spaces and some characters.

As soon as you hit "/" it should move you to the next box, which is for file name inside of your folder. Type the file name inscriptions.json or meta.json and paste your code from the ordinals metadata composer exactly as it is. Do not include the top part of the file with the //filename part but do include the brackets.

Finally, Scroll down and hit the green button that says "Propose new file". After that, you should be able to hit the pull request button, you can do both files at once or just repeat the process. You can now click "Pull requests" and see if your files has been processed yet. It will take a day or two before your collection appears as listed on Ordinals Wallet and OpenOrdex.

If you get stuck anywhere in the process, you can get help in the Bitcoin Ordinals reddit page: r/BitcoinOrdinals