Spore Protocol
The on-chain digital object (DOBs) protocol designed to empower ownership, distribution, and value capture.
Developers seeking to build innovative solutions can leverage Spore Protocol to support users, creators and collectors with digital objects.
What Makes Spore Protocol Unique?
💛 Redeemable Intrinsic Value:
Spore Protocol ensures that digital objects are created with intrinsic value. Each Spore is backed by tokens one can redeem at any time. The value increases as the utilization of on-chain space grows.
🔑 True On-Chain Ownership with Privacy:
Unlike many solutions that rely on Web2 hosting, where NFT holders may not own much more than a URL or an ID, Spore Protocol ensures holders have complete on-chain ownership. This, along with privacy-centric features, provides true security and control.
♾️ Multi Content Type:
Tired of simple JPEGs? Spore Protocol opens up new possibilities for expressing yourself on-chain, allowing for a wide range of content types, unlocking more use cases.
🌐 Zero-Fee Transfers:
Say goodbye to the need to hold gas fees in your wallet before you can interact with your digital asset. With Spore, you can seamlessly interact with your digital objects without any transaction friction, better user experience, better adoption.
Differences From Other Protocols
| Feature | ERC-721 | Ordinal | Spore |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basis of Value | Market, manufactured rarity | Derived value from the rarity of stats | Intrinsic value + market value |
| Redeemability | No | No | Yes |
| Content | Mostly off-chain | On-chain | On-chain |
| Immutability | Depends on the smart contract | Yes, immutable | Yes, immutable |
| “Mint” Fee | Varies by project | Based on data size as well as vbytes x sats/vbyte rate | Based on data size plus any extra value you want to infuse (redeemable) |
| Transaction Cost | Gas in ETH | Bitcoin network fee in BTC | Zero-Fee Transfers, optional out-of-wallet payment in any token |
| Content Size Limit | - | 4MB with miner; 400KB for average user | 500KB |
| Account/UTXO | Account | UTXO | UTXO |
| First-Class Asset | No | - | Yes |
| Privacy-enabled | No | Maybe | Yes |
| Simplicity | More complex due to smart contracts | Simpler, being a data attachment on a satoshi transaction | Simple, one cell for one digital object |
Curious about how Spore Protocol achieves these benefits?
Get Started
Learn Spore Fundamentals - Quickly grasp the core concepts.
Tutorial
Follow Along - Build a toy project, dive in with easy to follow steps and examples.
How-To Recipes
Simplified Solutions - Find concise recipes to streamline your production.
Resources
Power Tools - Build apps with Spore SDK and find more developer resources.