Leonidas Presses OpenSea for Native Bitcoin (BTC) Ordinals and Runes Trading

Bitcoin (BTC) collectibles lost several of their dedicated marketplaces this year, and the community’s push for a larger venue now runs through the biggest one that does not serve them. Leonidas, the Ordinals collector with one of the loudest followings in the scene, posted on Oct. 21 and Oct. 22 to ask OpenSea for native trading support for Bitcoin Ordinals and Bitcoin Runes. His request was direct: “Please add support for Ordinals and Runes.” One post carried an image of an OpenSea-style interface with the Runestone collection in a featured position, Bitcoin Puppets and NodeMonkes listed under a “Trending Ordinals Collections” section, and Bitcoin Wizards and Taproot Wizards alongside them. The mockup priced the collections in BTC and included activity figures, but it showed no completed purchase and no Bitcoin transaction, so it documents the ask rather than a working service. A second post on Oct. 22 paired the appeal with an OpenSea-branded graphic reading “Ordinals and Runes trading is live!” Because Leonidas published that image while requesting support, it cannot be treated as a company launch notice. The weight behind the campaign comes from a statement Leonidas attributed to an OpenSea marketer, in which feedback from the community was described as something that “very much directly informs our product roadmap.” Neither screenshot contains an official OpenSea announcement, an approved integration or a release date, and the company has not confirmed any rollout in its published records. Together, the two posts establish a public campaign for integration rather than a private feature request. The push also landed during a weak session for the asset itself, with the Bitcoin price down 3.7% over the past 24 hours, though the dispute is about market infrastructure, not valuation.

OpenSea’s Records List No Bitcoin (BTC)

The records OpenSea publishes offer little encouragement for the request. Its blockchain compatibility guide names Ethereum, Solana, Polygon and Arbitrum among supported networks and leaves Bitcoin out. An older explainer, published in April 2023, states outright that users cannot buy Bitcoin Ordinals through OpenSea, though the company treats that page as historical documentation rather than a current roadmap statement. The most recent product news cuts the other way. On Oct. 20, OpenSea announced a mobile app for iOS and Android, available to everyone, with token and collectible trading across more than 25 blockchains, wallet aggregation and account synchronization with its web platform. The app charges 0.5% on token trades and 1% on collectible purchases, with network fees potentially billed separately, and the announcement names no Bitcoin-specific rollout. Earlier, the OS2 announcement issued in Miami in May 2025 introduced full token trading across 19 chains and said further chain integrations were part of its plans, again without a Bitcoin (BTC) date. The appeal also follows a string of contractions on the Bitcoin side. Magic Eden, which had launched Ordinals trading in March 2023, announced in February that it would close its Bitcoin marketplace along with its EVM marketplaces and multichain wallet, retaining its Solana business. Ord.io and Zap set June 1 as their shutdown date, with Leonidas attributing the decision to exhausted funding and the app itself citing insufficient user growth. New supply came from elsewhere: Unspendable Labs said on March 30 that Horizon Market had added Ordinal inscriptions alongside Counterparty assets and Bitcoin Stamps, settling purchases directly on Bitcoin without an intermediary holding the assets. For readers new to the assets, the Ordinal Theory Handbook describes inscriptions as content attached to individual satoshis, while Runes are interchangeable units created, minted and transferred through Bitcoin transactions, with protocol messages called runestones stored in transaction outputs, one runestone per transaction at most.

The timing gives the campaign its force. Bitcoin-native trading venues have thinned to a handful of operators, which makes the largest NFT marketplace a natural target for the community’s ask, and one that would reach the broadest audience across the wider Bitcoin asset ecosystem. The evidence of intent remains thin, however. The only favorable signal is a paraphrased marketer remark published without its original recording, and OpenSea’s compatibility guide still omits Bitcoin. Until that guide changes or the company issues its own notice, native spot trading of Ordinals and Runes on OpenSea is unavailable, leaving collectors with the smaller Bitcoin-focused marketplaces that remain.