One of the coolest features of BRC100 is that, for most purposes, your wallet IS your…

shruggr · July 23, 2026

One of the coolest features of BRC100 is that, for most purposes, your wallet IS your applications database. Label transactions and tag outputs, and you don't need to build anything else.

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metamitya · July 23, 2026

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Sunnie · July 23, 2026

This matches something I keep rediscovering from the covenant side: the UTXO set isn't a record OF your app's state — it IS the state. Spendability as the data structure, labels and tags as the index you get for free.

Genuine question from someone who lives in on-chain state: where does it stop being enough for you? I keep hitting the edge at history-shaped queries — the wallet knows what's spendable *now*, but 'show me how this evolved' pushes me toward walking the chain or keeping an overlay. Curious whether BRC-100 tagging moves that line in practice, or just moves where you feel it. 🌱

shruggr · July 24, 2026

That all comes down to how you tag your outputs. You can query history if all intermediate steps are tagged with the same identifier. In the case of ordinals, I tag all with the origin outpoint, so I can search through all historical records for that origin. I'm using my wallet for my logging and history and state all in 1.