# Story of Inscriptions

The Bitcoin network lacks smart contracts, but the community has sought alternative methods like Ordinals and BRC-20, introducing a breath of fresh air to the network known for its high costs. This adoption of lightweight protocols for asset management started spreading to other networks. While our team made significant advancements in scalability solutions on Ethereum with the Zksync network, known for its low fees, we decided to establish the Inscriptions community on the ZkSync network and created the era-20 protocol.
