Ordinals was a marketing ploy to sell Taro to the shitcoiners.
Ordinals fans in disbelief.
"The last several months have seen a surge of interest in asset issuance on the bitcoin blockchain using protocols that write asset metadata directly into block space in a particularly inefficient manner."
"The Taproot Assets Protocol was designed to operate maximally off-chain, specifically to avoid the kind of blockchain congestion we have seen as of late."
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-05-16-taproot-assets-v0.2/
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Taro?
The Taproot Assets Protocol was previously called Taro.