Assets & Stamps

Sending Assets

In addition to dispensers, BlockVault allows you to send Counterparty assets directly to another Bitcoin address. This feature uses Counterparty's Enhanced Send protocol, which encodes the transfer information within a standard Bitcoin transaction.

To send an asset:

1. Connect your Bitcoin wallet.
2. Select the asset and amount you want to send.
3. Enter the destination address.
4. Confirm the transaction from your wallet.

The recipient will receive the tokens once the transaction is confirmed in a Bitcoin block (typically between 10 and 60 minutes).

Asset Metadata

Each Counterparty asset can include additional information that the app displays automatically:

• Image: many assets include an associated image, either embedded directly on the blockchain (such as Bitcoin Stamps) or hosted externally (IPFS, URLs).
• Description: descriptive text that the creator can include when issuing the asset.
• Total supply: the maximum number of units that exist.
• Divisibility: whether the asset can be split into smaller units (up to 8 decimal places) or only exists as whole units.
• Lock status: indicates whether the issuance is closed (no more units can be created) or open.

BlockVault caches asset metadata for 24 hours to provide a fast experience and reduce the load on Counterparty nodes.

Stamps and Collectibles

One of the most popular types of Counterparty assets are Bitcoin Stamps: images encoded directly in Bitcoin transactions. Unlike other forms of NFTs, Stamps are truly immutable — the image exists within the Bitcoin blockchain itself, not on an external server that could disappear.

BlockVault automatically detects assets that are Stamps and displays their image directly in the interface, both in the dispenser marketplace and in your wallet's asset list.