Motoko Sentinels, a new ordinal collection that launched on the Bioniq Marketplace, saw its trading volume increase following the Bitcoin halving, despite the high trading volumes immediately following the event. 

Although total ordinal volume had decreased by over 58% the day following the Bitcoin halving due to high network fees, the Motoko Sentinel collection saw its trading volume increase by 20%. 

Kyle Langham, the director of data and analytics at DFINITY, told Blockworks that this is because the Bioniq marketplace operates on the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP). This network, which is natively integrated with Bitcoin, can maintain lower transaction costs regardless of the fee…

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