Inscribing

Before you start

• A funded transparent balance — inscribing costs a network fee plus the carrier output.
• A wallet that keeps zats separated so nothing rare is spent by accident.
• Your content, as small as you can reasonably make it.

Steps

1. Prepare the file. Compress images; strip metadata you do not want on-chain forever.
2. Choose the carrier zat — a fresh output, or a specific zat you want to inscribe.
3. Build the inscription with its content_type and content body.
4. Broadcast, wait for confirmation, then verify the inscription id.

zord wallet inscribe \
  --file art.png \
  --content-type image/png \
  --fee-rate 10

Inscription ids

An inscription is identified by the transaction that created it plus its index within that transaction, written as <txid>i<index>. The id never changes, even as the artifact is traded.

Sending an inscription

Sending means spending the output that holds the inscribed zat, to an address the recipient controls. Use a wallet that understands zat ordering — a generic wallet may sweep the carrier output into a fee or a change output and scatter what you meant to send.