Digital permanence on Bitcoin.
Aries Labs builds developer tooling for Bitcoin, and collections designed to live on the chain itself — held by their owners, readable without our permission, and still there if we are not.
What permanence means on Bitcoin
The record does not depend on us.
A Bitcoin transaction is a public record that no single company keeps for you. Ordinals put data — an image, a text, a piece of music — into that record directly. Alkanes adds programs, so a collection can enforce its own rules on the chain instead of on someone's server. SUBFROST moves bitcoin into those programs and back out again. Fractal Bitcoin carries heavier files than the base chain is built for. Aries Labs did not create any of these. We build with them, so that what you own keeps working whether or not we are the ones serving it.
- Writtennot hosted. The data is on the chain, not on a server we run.
- Ownednot licensed. You hold the keys; we never do.
- Verifiableby anyone with a node. No account with us is required to check it.
What Aries Labs is
Aries Labs is a small team that ships. We build developer tooling for the Alkanes Protocol, we run our own indexing and node infrastructure, and we built our own launchpad to publish collections through. Our products are self-custodial: we never hold a key for you. We open-source the tools other builders can use, and we say plainly what does not work yet. The record of what we ship is public, and it is the only claim we make.
- ProtocolsOrdinals, Alkanes, SUBFROST, Fractal Bitcoin.
- CustodySelf-custodial. We never hold keys for you.
- Codegithub.com/Aries-Labs-HQ
What we ship
In release order. Each label says what is true today. Every product lives on its own domain; this page is the index, not the product.
- 01Private era
Aries Labs Alkanes MCP
The Aries Labs Alkanes MCP is the AI-native front door for building on the Alkanes Protocol and utilizing SUBFROST as a developer.
The public beta is closed. Public access returns; no date is promised.
- 02Live
Open Orbit
The sovereign launchpad for collections on Bitcoin. Now accepting artist submissions — every submission is read, and every listed collection is selected by hand.
Open Orbit presents the work. The site itself never broadcasts a transaction for you.
- 03Minted out
Aries Orbitals
Minted out — 3,000 of 3,000.
Standings are final as of block 969566 (the Snapshot).
A separate 333-piece Aries Honorary collection follows shortly after.
- 04Upcoming
Aries Honorary
333 pieces. Each a 1/1 designed by its holder.
Free, for the top 300 addresses at the Snapshot and the 33 OG builders.
Follows shortly after the public round; no date is promised.
Find us
Four channels. All of them open.