Inscribed sats
An inscribed sat carries an inscription; the site counts inscribed rare sats apart and keeps their sales out of rare-sat prices unless you ask for them.
What counts as inscribed
An inscription is content attached to a single sat under ordinal theory. The index reads inscription envelopes as transactions reveal them, but only on the sats it tracks, so "inscribed" here always means a tracked rare sat that carries an inscription. A sat is inscribed when it carries one now; the sat page also says how many inscriptions landed on it, re-inscriptions included.
In the supply
Each category's inscribed number is how many of its located sats carry an inscription now, recomputed once a block. For example, 21,914 uncommon sats are inscribed. Inscriptions revealed in transactions still in the mempool are not counted until they are mined.
In prices
An inscription has a value of its own, which is not the rare sat's. A sale is inscribed when a tracked sat it sold carried an inscription when sold, that is, inscribed by an earlier transaction (an inscription made later in the sale's own block does not count). Inscribed sales are:
- hidden in the sales views unless you switch on Include inscribed;
- never in a category's median line, and left out of its market numbers (the 30-day median and the volumes);
- never judged as outliers, and never part of the earlier sales another sale is judged against.
See unit price for how the other sales are priced.
On the marketplace
Only plain rare sats can be listed here: an output that carries an inscription or runes cannot be listed, and a buyer's inscribed outputs are never spent as padding or funding.