Creating a Collection

A parent/child collection uses one parent inscription to establish provenance for a set of child inscriptions. Each child is inscribed as a child of the same parent. This is the ideal method for creating an Ordinals collection.

Parent/child collections can easily be inscribed using inscribe.dev tools.

Basic process

1. Inscribe the parent
   • Create one parent inscription for the collection
   • This serves as the provenance anchor for all children
2. Prepare each child
   • Assign a title to each child (e.g., Bitcoin Puppet #1)
   • Assign traits/attributes to each child, ensuring a consistent format is used across all children
   • This can be accomplished using a .json
3. Inscribe each child to the parent
   • Inscribe every collection item as a child of the same parent inscription

Outcome

Once complete, the collection has on-chain provenance through the parent, and each child carries its own title and trait metadata. A collection that uses parent/child provenance properly does not need a gallery to be verified for trading on ord.net.