“甲烷”是比特币生态系统中最热的词

作为新的比特币生态系统协议烷烃的第一个公平铸造的代币，“甲烷”的市场价值超过了600万美元

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

“甲烷”是比特币生态系统中最热门的词。

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.

作为新的比特币生态系统协议烷烃的第一个公平铸造的代币，“甲烷”的市场价值超过了600万美元，这意味着每种甲烷的价格超过60美元。编辑询问了参加铸造的一些比特币生态系统玩家，而铸造的成本差异很大。如果将每件5美元的铸造成本作为基准，那么铸造甲烷的利润已超过10倍。

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

当比特币生态系统长期遗弃时，新的资产协议是如何成为烷烃的？

Background of the Agreement

协议的背景

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协议的前身称为Protorunes或“可编程符文”，创始人是相同的。这件事也简短地吸引了去年中旬符文仍然很受欢迎的比特币生态系统的注意。

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:

协议创始人@judoflexchop是比特币钱包oyl钱包的CTO。该钱包可能在比特币生态系统中没有很多用户，但仍然是众所周知的。您可以通过查看其融资状况来了解为什么：

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，比特币基础设施公司Oyl完成了由ARCA领导的300万美元的预付款融资，并参加了您的Arthur Hayes家族办公室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.

由于亚瑟·海斯（Arthur Hayes）的参与，这个钱包很快就在比特币生态系统中受欢迎程度。去年中期，Oyl推出了一个名为“ Airheads”的比特币NFT项目，该项目由于其相对较高的铸造价格引起了争议。从NFT价格性能的角度来看，这是一个“失败”项目，但由于烷烃协议的普及，最近它已经增加了近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.

尽管它们都是钱包，但在比特币生态系统中，主要钱包不仅是钱包。例如，OKX，Unisat，Magic Eden和本文的主角OYL除了钱包外还有许多其他比特币生态系统业务。只有Xverse的业务范围相对“集中”。回到OYL，除了钱包外，他们还制作了一个名为“ Sandshrew”和Alkanes协议的比特币RPC。

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

现在，Oyl正在以其所有优势来推动此协议，官方Twitter帐户还包括烷烃：

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.

烷烃是一种新的比特币资产协议。通常，它从符文协议的“ Runestone”结构中借用，但更可扩展并支持智能合约。如前所述，该协议的前身是蛋白质。从这个名称来看，Protorunes看起来像是“符文的魔术版本”，但事实并非如此。简而言之，符文协议和“ Runestone”结构就像封闭的iOS一样，而质子和烷烃就像开源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等同于符文协议的“符号”。这里的“ Runestone”不是NFT，在符文早期就具有强大的财富创造效果，而是符文的“交易数据包”。简而言之，它是嵌入比特币交易中的一块信息，这是确定交易中是否有符文操作的索引的基础。

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.

如果索引器在扫描每次交易的OP_RETTRUNT时会找到“符号”标记，则将在标记后解析数据，例如蚀刻，铸造，转移等。“ Rutestone”就像一个操作指南，索引器根据指南获得索引结果。

"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”是符合符文协议的操作指南。它对应于单行中的符文协议，但是蛋白质是不同的。坦率地说，我们不能直接让符文协议索引器实施这样的操作：“我是基于runestone的子资料协议，请把我索引在一起”，但是protorunes可以。每个人都可以根据Protorunes数据格式自定义新的资产协议。这些协议将被分配一个“协议ID”。索引器将读取“协议ID”，以确定根据哪种协议规范进行根据。

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.

有一些模块化链，例如以太坊，可以使事情变得更容易。对于开发人员而言，他们只能使用OYL提供的工具，而无需制作自己的索引。

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.

至于智能合同实施的水平，在OP_CAT复兴之前，基本方法是将合同数据存储在交易中并执行索引外链，并且与此方法没有偏差。

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

除了技术方面，该协议可以获得动力的主要原因有两个。首先，它已经收到