Runes Revolution: Token Standard Propels Bitcoin Network to Record Transaction Fees

In its inaugural week, the newly introduced Runes token standard on the Bitcoin network has amassed an astonishing 2129 bitcoins in transaction fees, equating to roughly $135 million. Runes utilizes Bitcoin’s UTXO model and the OP_RETURN opcode, presenting a more streamlined method for tokenization compared to the existing BRC20 standard, which relies on the Ordinals protocols.

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