# First, what is Inscriptions and Ethscriptions?

Inscriptions started with Bitcoin Ordinals, by inscribing sats (smallest unit of Bitcoin) with arbitrary content on the Bitcoin Network. Etherscriptions is the response to [Bitcoin’s Ordinal Inscriptions](https://docs.ordinals.com/inscriptions.html), offering a different approach to creating and distributing assets on the blockchain. Each inscription is a unique data URI, ensuring originality and ownership changes based on transaction input data

Both standards offer a different mechanism to inscribe data onchain.