How to Mint Natcats

Disclaimer: If you choose to mint Natcats, please do so at your own risk. All Natcats on blocks prior to 830592 have been minted.

Step 1: Familiarize yourself with Natcats traits

Review Traits Documentation to understand how Natcats traits are assigned.

Step 2: Find a Natcats block

First, find a Bitcoin block that contains the pattern 3b in the hexadecimal bits field for Bitcoin's block data. You can do this by looking up a block in a Block explorer like https://blockstream.info/, or by querying Bitcoin block data.

Step 3: View Natcat

Once you have found a block number that is associated with Natcats, enter the block number in the Natcats viewer to visualize.

Step 4: Check availability

Each Natcat can only be inscribed once. So once you find a block number for a Natcat you like, you'll want to see if anyone else has inscribed it already. You can confirm that the block 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 honor spaces when searching, but spaces are ignored in DMT mint syntax. To confirm availability, it is recommended that you search for mint syntax with and without spaces.

Step 5: Mint

To inscribe your Natcats mint, enter the mint inscription text in the text inscription platform of your choice, and replace <yourblocknumberhere> with the bitcoin block number for your Natcat.

Inscription text:

{
"p":"tap",
"op":"dmt-mint",
"dep":"3e09b19d668e39bfa16aeae7882c123bfc42f939a09426b240b176f98628f487i0",
"tick":"natcats",
"blk":"<yourblocknumberhere>"
}

Example Recommended text inscription platforms: 1. Mscribe 2. Unisat

Step 6: Confirm

Once your inscription is confirmed, you can view your Natcats on Mscribe under "My Inventory" > "UNATs" (requires wallet connection). If your inscription was successful, you will see it reflected in the count in your NAT inventory.