Are we gearing up for a repeat of May 2023?
Once again, it pays to be a degen.
This time it's a Runes 2.0 type protocol: "Alkanes". You might call them "programmable runes". It's taken off in China, but behind the new metaprotocol is
@oylwallet/
@OylDynamics.
TL;DR it's a protocol extension of Runes where the indexer interprets an additional ruleset (the "programmability"). The Runestone message looks similar but with a little extra stuff which the Alkanes indexer interprets.
I've actually been covering the entire Alkanes story on @BTCSZN2 for over a year now. Check out my chat w/ Oyl founder
@taggaOyl from this past January:
x.com/i/broadcasts/1zqKVYYrzโฆ
I also interviewed Tagga about the
@SandshrewRPC infrastructure powering the metaprotocol (youtube link below).