Bitcoin Indexer
The Bitcoin Indexer is a high-performance, reorg-aware indexing engine that tracks Bitcoin metaprotocols and serves API endpoints for Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20 tokens.
Overview
The Bitcoin Indexer connects to your Bitcoin node, processes blocks in real-time, stores metaprotocol data in PostgreSQL, and serves REST APIs for each protocol.
Ongoing maintainence and updates to the Bitcoin Indexer will stop on March 1st, 2026. The Bitcoin Indexer repo will continue to be open-sourced.
Key features
- Metaprotocol indexing - Built-in support for Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20 with extensible architecture
- Reorg-aware processing - Automatically handles chain forks and reorganizations
- REST API endpoints - Production-ready APIs for Ordinals and Runes
- Archive bootstrapping - Quick sync from Hiro archives instead of full indexing
Installation
$git clone https://github.com/hirosystems/bitcoin-indexer.git$cd bitcoin-indexer && cargo build --release
Docker images are also available:
$docker pull hirosystems/bitcoin-indexer:latest
Next steps
Node installation→
Configure and sync a Bitcoin Core node optimized for the Bitcoin Indexer.
Full sync→
Run the indexer from scratch
Reach out to us on the #ordinals channel on Discord under the Hiro Developer Tools section. There's also a weekly office hours call every Wednesday at 1pm ET.