Bitcoin Ecosystem Wheel
Built beside Bitcoin, because almost nothing can be built inside it.
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The Bitcoin ecosystem wheel picks one of twenty Bitcoin-linked tokens at random. These are the projects building around Bitcoin rather than on it — sidechains, layers and protocols that settle to it or borrow its security.
Built beside it, not on it
The base layer here deliberately does very little. Its scripting capability is minimal by design, on the reasoning that every feature is an attack surface and the asset's job is to be extremely hard to break rather than interesting to program.
The consequence is that everything expressive gets built alongside rather than inside: sidechains with their own security assumptions, layers that settle back periodically, and protocols that borrow the asset without borrowing the chain's guarantees. This wheel holds those, which is why it is the smallest ecosystem with a page on this site.
Minimalism as a security position
It is worth stating the argument properly rather than treating the limitation as an accident. A chain that cannot express complicated conditions cannot have bugs in complicated conditions. Years of expensive failures elsewhere, in code that held large sums and turned out to be subtly wrong, are the evidence offered in its favour.
The cost is everything on this wheel: functionality that exists only because somebody built it somewhere with weaker guarantees. Whether that trade is correct is the longest-running argument in the industry, and it is not one a random picker gets a vote in.
What the ecosystem tag covers
Loosely, anything the data provider associates with the asset — which spans projects with genuine technical linkage and projects whose connection is largely thematic. Wrapped representations are excluded here as everywhere on this site, because they are the asset itself wearing a different ticker.
The list is ordered by market capitalisation and cut at twenty. The wheel picks one with equal probability, and the strength of any given entry's actual relationship to Bitcoin is left for you to look into.
What is on this wheel
| Rank | Ticker | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BTC | Bitcoin |
| 12 | LINK | Chainlink |
| 45 | SKY | Sky |
| 95 | BSV | Bitcoin SV |
| 100 | STX | Stacks |
| 108 | PENDLE | Pendle |
| 112 | XPL | Plasma |
| 120 | DCR | Decred |
| 182 | ORDI | ORDI |
| 183 | RSR | Reserve Rights |
| 190 | QTUM | Qtum |
| 255 | RIF | Rootstock Infrastructure Framework |
| 258 | DOG | Dog (Bitcoin) |
| 363 | BABY | Babylon |
| 407 | T | Threshold |
| 411 | BARD | Lombard |
| 420 | ME | Magic Eden |
| 454 | FB | Fractal Bitcoin |
| 502 | B2 | BSquared Network |
| 550 | SATS | SATS (Ordinals) |
Market data provided by CoinMarketCap — CoinMarketCap. Rank, ticker and name only; this site stores no prices.
This list is a judgement about what belongs in the category, not a market-cap ranking, so it carries no date. See how the lists are chosen.
Questions
Which coins are on the bitcoin wheel?
All 20 of them are printed under the wheel: BTC, LINK, SKY, BSV, STX, PENDLE, XPL, DCR, ORDI, RSR, QTUM, RIF, DOG, BABY, T, BARD, ME, FB, B2 and SATS. Stablecoins and wrapped tokens are left off, and you can replace the whole list in Custom mode.
Is Bitcoin itself on this wheel?
It can be, since the asset belongs to its own ecosystem by any reasonable reading. The list is ordered by market capitalisation and cut at twenty, so membership follows from the data rather than from a rule here.
Why is this ecosystem smaller than the others?
Because the base layer deliberately does very little. A minimal scripting capability is a security decision, and its cost is that building anything expressive means building beside Bitcoin rather than inside it.