“甲烷”是比特幣生態系統中最熱的詞

作為新的比特幣生態系統協議烷烴的第一個公平鑄造的代幣，“甲烷”的市場價值超過了600萬美元

"Methane" is the hottest word in the Bitcoin ecosystem recently.

“甲烷”是比特幣生態系統中最熱門的詞。

As the first fair minted token of the new Bitcoin ecosystem protocol Alkanes, the market value of "METHANE" has exceeded 6 million US dollars, which means that each METHANE is more than 60 US dollars. The editor asked some Bitcoin ecosystem players who participated in the minting, and the cost difference of minting is quite large. If the minting cost of 5 US dollars per piece is taken as the benchmark, then the profit of minting METHANE has exceeded 10 times.

作為新的比特幣生態系統協議烷烴的第一個公平鑄造的代幣，“甲烷”的市場價值超過了600萬美元，這意味著每種甲烷的價格超過60美元。編輯詢問了參加鑄造的一些比特幣生態系統玩家，而鑄造的成本差異很大。如果將每件5美元的鑄造成本作為基準，那麼鑄造甲烷的利潤已超過10倍。

How did the new asset protocol Alkanes come into being when the Bitcoin ecosystem has been deserted for a long time?

當比特幣生態系統長期遺棄時，新的資產協議是如何成為烷烴的？

Background of the Agreement

協議的背景

The predecessor of the Alkanes protocol was called Protorunes, or "Programmable Runes", and the founders were the same. This thing also briefly attracted the attention of the Bitcoin ecosystem in the middle of last year, when runes were still quite popular.

Alkanes協議的前身稱為Protorunes或“可編程符文”，創始人是相同的。這件事也簡短地吸引了去年中旬符文仍然很受歡迎的比特幣生態系統的注意。

The protocol founder @judoflexchop is the CTO of the Bitcoin wallet Oyl Wallet. This wallet may not have many users in the Bitcoin ecosystem, but it is still well-known. You can see why by looking at its financing situation:

協議創始人@judoflexchop是比特幣錢包oyl錢包的CTO。該錢包可能在比特幣生態系統中沒有很多用戶，但仍然是眾所周知的。您可以通過查看其融資狀況來了解為什麼：

On March 8, 2024, Bitcoin infrastructure company Oyl completed a $3 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Arca, with participation from Foresight Ventures, Arthur Hayes family office Maelstrom, Domo, UTXO Management, Taproot Wizards CEO Udi Werthheimer, Kanosei and FlamingoDAO.

2024年3月8日，比特幣基礎設施公司Oyl完成了由ARCA領導的300萬美元的預付款融資，並參加了您的Arthur Hayes家族辦公室Maelstrom，Domo，Utxo Management，Taproot Wizard Wizards Ceo Udi Werthheimer，Kanheosei和Kanyosei，Kanyosei和Flamingodao。

Because of Arthur Hayes' participation, this wallet quickly gained popularity in the Bitcoin ecosystem. In the middle of last year, Oyl launched a Bitcoin NFT project called "Airheads", which caused controversy due to its relatively high minting price. From the perspective of NFT price performance, this is a "failed" project, but recently it has risen by nearly 3 times due to the popularity of the Alkanes protocol.

由於亞瑟·海斯（Arthur Hayes）的參與，這個錢包很快就在比特幣生態系統中受歡迎程度。去年中期，Oyl推出了一個名為“ Airheads”的比特幣NFT項目，該項目由於其相對較高的鑄造價格引起了爭議。從NFT價格性能的角度來看，這是一個“失敗”項目，但由於烷烴協議的普及，最近它已經增加了近3倍。

Although they are all wallets, in the Bitcoin ecosystem, the major wallets are not just wallets. For example, OKX, UniSat, Magic Eden, and the protagonist of this article, Oyl, have many other Bitcoin ecosystem businesses besides wallets. Only Xverse's business scope is relatively "focused". Back to Oyl, in addition to wallets, they also made a Bitcoin RPC called "Sandshrew" and the Alkanes protocol.

儘管它們都是錢包，但在比特幣生態系統中，主要錢包不僅是錢包。例如，OKX，Unisat，Magic Eden和本文的主角OYL除了錢包外還有許多其他比特幣生態系統業務。只有Xverse的業務範圍相對“集中”。回到OYL，除了錢包外，他們還製作了一個名為“ Sandshrew”和Alkanes協議的比特幣RPC。

Now Oyl is pushing this protocol with all its strength, and the official Twitter account also includes Alkanes:

現在，Oyl正在以其所有優勢來推動此協議，官方Twitter帳戶還包括烷烴：

Reasons for the explosion

爆炸的原因

Alkanes is a new Bitcoin asset protocol. In general, it borrows from the Rune Protocol's "Runestone" structure, but is more scalable and supports smart contracts. As mentioned earlier, the protocol's predecessor was Protorunes. From the name, Protorunes looks like a "magic version of Rune", but it is not. In short, the Rune Protocol and the "Runestone" structure are like closed iOS, while Protorunes and Alkanes are like open source Android.

烷烴是一種新的比特幣資產協議。通常，它從符文協議的“ Runestone”結構中藉用，但更可擴展並支持智能合約。如前所述，該協議的前身是蛋白質。從這個名稱來看，Protorunes看起來像是“符文的魔術版本”，但事實並非如此。簡而言之，符文協議和“ Runestone”結構就像封閉的iOS一樣，而質子和烷烴就像開源Android。

Protorunes is equivalent to the "Runestone" of the Rune Protocol. The "Runestone" here is not the NFT with a strong wealth-creating effect in the early days of Rune, but the "transaction data package" of Rune. In simple terms, it is a piece of information embedded in a Bitcoin transaction, which is the basis for the index to determine whether there is a Rune operation in a transaction.

Protorunes等同於符文協議的“符號”。這裡的“ Runestone”不是NFT，在符文早期就具有強大的財富創造效果，而是符文的“交易數據包”。簡而言之，它是嵌入比特幣交易中的一塊信息，這是確定交易中是否有符文操作的索引的基礎。

If the indexer finds the "RUNES" mark when scanning the OP_RETURN of each transaction, it will parse the data after the mark, such as etching, casting, transfer, etc. "Runestone" is like an operating guide, and the indexer obtains the index result based on the guide.

如果索引器在掃描每次交易的OP_RETTRUNT時會找到“符號”標記，則將在標記後解析數據，例如蝕刻，鑄造，轉移等。 “ Rutestone”就像一個操作指南，索引器根據指南獲得索引結果。

"Runestone" is an operation guide limited to the Rune Protocol. It corresponds to the Rune Protocol in a single line, but Protorunes is different. To put it bluntly, we cannot directly let the Rune Protocol indexer implement such an action, "I am a sub-asset protocol based on Runestone, please index me together", but Protorunes can. Everyone can customize a new asset protocol according to the Protorunes data format. These protocols will be assigned a "Protocol ID". The indexer will read the "Protocol ID" to determine which protocol specification to parse according to.

“ Runestone”是符合符文協議的操作指南。它對應於單行中的符文協議，但是蛋白質是不同的。坦率地說，我們不能直接讓符文協議索引器實施這樣的操作：“我是基於runestone的子資料協議，請把我索引在一起”，但是protorunes可以。每個人都可以根據Protorunes數據格式自定義新的資產協議。這些協議將被分配一個“協議ID”。索引器將讀取“協議ID”，以確定根據哪種協議規范進行根據。

There are some modular chains like Ethereum that make things easier. For developers, they can just use the tools provided by Oyl and don’t need to make their own indexer.

有一些模塊化鏈，例如以太坊，可以使事情變得更容易。對於開發人員而言，他們只能使用OYL提供的工具，而無需製作自己的索引。

As for the level of smart contract implementation, before the revival of OP_CAT, the basic approach is to store contract data in transactions and execute indexes off-chain, and there can be no deviation from this approach.

至於智能合同實施的水平，在OP_CAT復興之前，基本方法是將合同數據存儲在交易中並執行索引外鏈，並且與此方法沒有偏差。

In addition to the technical aspects, there are two main reasons why this protocol can gain momentum. First, it has received

除了技術方面，該協議可以獲得動力的主要原因有兩個。首先，它已經收到