In its inaugural week, the Runes protocol – which allows fungible tokens to be created on the Bitcoin network – launched with considerable success, amassing a staggering $346 million market cap. Yet, ...

The Runes protocol will launch when Bitcoin's halving takes place, and a wave of new tokens will ignite a new season for the world's largest blockchain. The Ordinals protocol launched in December 2022 ...

The fourth Bitcoin halving may be considered to be the most memorable, as industry experts believe this event was unlike any other. Bitcoin miners, in particular, were pleasantly surprised, as the ...

Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr criticized the Runes protocol in a Friday X post, suggesting it exploits a fundamental design flaw within the Bitcoin blockchain network. In his post, Dashjr ...

Bitcoin Runes is a protocol designed to create fungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain, leveraging the unspent transaction output model (UTXO) and the OP_RETURN opcode. This innovation aims to ...

Activity on the Bitcoin Runes protocol has slowed over the past week, a sign it has failed to generate meaningful traction among users despite a stellar start last month. Runes takes the Ordinals ...

None of the protocols operating on the Bitcoin network have been able to match the original Bitcoin in terms of the total number of daily transactions for an extended period, according to new data.

The Bitcoin (BTC) halving on April 19 has been one of the biggest cryptocurrency headlines of 2024 so far. But in addition to reducing mining rewards, the halving marked the launch of something you’ve ...

Nearly a week after the halving, Bitcoin Runes have achieved a milestone as observers and participants alike deliberate over the impacts of the new standard. According to a Dune Analytics dashboard, ...

Last week's once-every-four-years Bitcoin halving came and went – just as Satoshi Nakamoto programmed it 15 years ago. But the big surprise was the fast uptake of Casey Rodarmor's new Runes protocol, ...

Over the past year, the Bitcoin Renaissance has brought significant attention to BTCfi, or “Bitcoin DeFi” applications. Despite the hype, very few of these applications have delivered on their ...

Despite this being the most anticipated Bitcoin halving yet (at least according to Google search history), it was the launch of the high-profile Bitcoin builder Casey Rodamor’s latest creation – Runes ...