Minting VLA Origin

The first collections of 580 available animals are already minted, but anyone can mint the following animals.

Step 1: Get to know VLAO

Read the documentation of VLA Origin and understand in what situation can resurrect animals.

Step 2: Find a VLAO block hash

First, find a Bitcoin block hash that contains the pattern 6174.

You can find it in the block browser, i.e. https://blockstream.info/

To date, there are 580 blocks that have 6174 in the block hash.

Step 3: View VLAO

Once you find a block hash containing 6174, go to the indexer and enter the block hash to visualize.

Step 4: Check availability

Each block hash animal can only be inscribed once. First come, first inscribe basis. You can confirm that the block hash has not already been minted, by searching for the contents of the mint inscription for the given block (see step 5) via an ordinals search tool such as https://unisat.io/search.

Note: search tools like Unisat search will honour spaces when searching, but spaces are ignored in the DMT mint syntax. To confirm availability, it is recommended that you search for the mint syntax with and without spaces.

Step 5: Mint

To inscribe your VLAO, enter the mint inscription text in the text inscription platform of your choice, and replace <yourblockhashhere> with the bitcoin block hash for your VLAO.

Inscription text — (copy):

{
  "p": "tap",
  "op": "dmt-mint",
  "dep": "604400f41bec745a99dc2057ee73b6b6b7e685774467f92135916875b0485381i0",
  "tick": "vlao",
  "blk": <blockheight>, // the height of the block hash
  "blockhash": <yourblockhash> // contains 6174
}

Recommended text inscription platforms:

• Mscribe

• Unisat