The “rune” track is on the rise. Here’s a look at 14 new projects worth paying attention to.

RSIC's performance in this round of Bitcoin NFT market has attracted huge attention to the "rune" concept of Bitcoin (Ordinals), which has also led to the emergence of a wave of "rune" concept Bitcoin NFT projects. As the issuance of Runestone is just around the corner, the date when the "Rune" protocol is planned to be launched on the mainnet (Bitcoin halving) is getting closer and closer. "Rune", the Ordinals official FT protocol and its concept project, has received increasing attention. Come more and more attention.

Different from the last round of the Inscription bull market, the "Rune" hot projects in this round of Bitcoin market all appear in the form of Bitcoin NFTs (small pictures). This is actually reasonable, because the "Rune" protocol has not been officially launched yet, so there is no real "Rune" Token. The current small concept pictures of "Rune" are actually "air calculators" - although there are differences in gameplay, they are actually "scored" from the beginning of the project release, and finally in "Rune" "After the protocol is officially launched, the corresponding Token will be issued and airdropped based on the "scoring" results.

After understanding this, you will probably also get the current risks of the small concept pictures of "runes". First of all, the final interpretation of the "Rune" protocol lies with the Ordinals protocol official. In particular, Casey himself once tweeted to emphasize that the first 10 "Rune" Tokens may be "hard-coded", which means they will not be open for deployment. Instead, it is written directly in the code. The first 10 "Rune" Tokens will be fair and open to casting, and there will be no pre-mining/pre-distribution.

In addition, the project side of the small concept picture of "Rune" may also stop working in the end and not deploy or airdrop the "Rune" Token to its holders. These are risks to be aware of.

Next, is the inventory of small picture projects with the concept of "runes" brought to you by the editor.

RSIC

On January 22, “Rune Miner” RSIC was quietly airdropped into the hands of a group of Bitcoin NFT players. One of the player groups that will benefit the most from this airdrop is NodeMonkes holders. Active addresses holding NodeMonkes even received up to 5 RSIC airdrops.

The price of RSIC basically broke through 0.01 Bitcoin at the opening, quickly rose to 0.05 Bitcoin 2 days later, and then fell back to 0.03 Bitcoin and remained stable. Entering February, RSIC basically rose all the way, breaking through 0.1 Bitcoin at its peak, until it was almost the same as the previous high and then gradually fell back. The current floor price is around 0.076 Bitcoin.

RSIC not only created a wave of "rune" projects, but also opened up NodeMonkes' "Rent and Governor". The "shovel" effect of NodeMonkes began to be activated, and soon became the "most popular" among the Bitcoin NFT projects. Strong shovel".

Who created RSIC? The concept of "Rocktoshi series" should be mentioned here. Because the funding sources for burning Ord Rocks (a very, very old Ordinals project, similar to Ether Rocks on Ethereum) and RSIC point to the same address - bc1pce53d78cuyw4fkuhh95ppc8h8v4wjc00nqulj2gff2474qg0xyns9krcq5. In addition, NodeMonkes is the biggest beneficiary of the RSIC airdrop, so many people in the Ordinals ecosystem believe that Rocktoshi is the operator behind the three projects of Ord Rocks, NodeMonkes and RSIC.

A few notes about RSIC:

The shares mined from RSIC that have been "activated" (transferred once) will not be transferred to you with your purchase.
10% of the future "Rune" Token share will belong to the project party.
If you also have RSIC BOOST under an "activated" RSIC address, the mining rate will double, from 21 to 42 per block. RSIC BOOST is unlimited and can be minted on Luminex or purchased directly on the secondary market.

Runestone

There is a very interesting analogy that compares Runestone to the "runes" of $SATS. The total amount of the project is very large. There are more than 112,000 whitelist addresses that are eligible for airdrops. The rules of the whitelist are also very fair and transparent. At the height of block 826600, addresses holding 3 inscriptions will be Received airdrops (text and JSON type inscriptions are not counted, you can check here to see if you can get Runestone airdrops).

Runestone is led by Ordinals well-known V @LeonidasNFT, who is also the founder of ord.io. As an Ordinals browser, the more interesting thing about ord.io is that it has become the "Holy Land of Liver Whiteness" for Ordinals. Nowadays, the cold start method of many projects is to let players go to ord.io to like their own inscriptions and leave comments. address.

Airdrops cost money, and more than 110,000 of them cost a lot of money. This is a very real problem. Runestone is entirely funded by donations and raised 2.25 Bitcoins. In addition, on March 9, the black 3D "Runestone" pictured above was successfully auctioned at a price of 8 BTC. Therefore, not only is the source of funds for the airdrop completely safe, but it also adds a solid insurance to the fairness of Runestone.

Although the small picture of Runestone is very large, it is also an "airdrop certificate" like RSIC. The Token airdrop will be carried out after the "Rune" protocol is officially launched.

The Rune Guardians

The gameplay idea design is the same as the name of this "Guardian", focusing on "persistence to the end". Unlike RSIC, the mined "Rune" Token shares and small pictures are tied to each other. As long as they are sold, you will not receive any Token airdrops when the "Rune" protocol goes online.

10,000 The Rune Guardians will divide a total of 100 billion "Rune" Tokens in the future. Different attributes have different bonuses to mining. You can filter attributes through Magic Eden and refer to the attribute gain table below:

You can also view a single The Rune Guardian inscription in the Ordinals browser. Click on the image and the number of "Rune" Tokens that the inscription has accumulated will pop up:! The "Rune" track is on the rise, and 14 of them are worthy of attention in one article. New project

Another interesting thing about this project is that it will "evolve" into a real PFP series when the halving occurs.

Rune Mania Miner

For the airdrop project mentioned above to RSIC BOOST holders, the airdrop has been completed and the total amount is fixed at 3,800, of which 3,547 were airdropped to RSIC BOOST holders and 253 were retained by the project.

The mining bonus rules for this project are relatively complicated. If you want to purchase it, it is recommended to check the bonus status through the dashboard on the official website and enter the inscription ID.

In addition, the project side of the project will not reserve any future "Rune" Token shares and will all distribute them to Rune Mania Miner holders. The total supply of "Rune" Token has not yet been disclosed and will be known after the halving occurs.

Runic Miner

It was developed by a project called Node Apes. This is a CBRC-20 project with a total amount of 10K. Each Node Apes comes with 1000 $CYBD CBRC-20 Token and 1 Runic Miner when mint. This project can't help but make me sigh. There is really no one who can achieve such a volume of imitation disk. Node Apes has worked hard on the hot spots that should be worked on...

Because it is bound to the Node Apes project, the rule idea of Runic Miner is basically to let people "get the whole family bucket" - Node Apes + $CYBD + Runic Miner together have the most bonuses. The specific rules can be seen in the figure below:

ORANGE & ORANGE ROYAL TOMB

I think this project is a relatively underestimated "rune" concept project, because behind it is the OG artist @XCPinata who has been active in the Bitcoin ecosystem since 2014.

Let’s talk about the ORANGE series first. This rule is also very simple. In the picture below, there are 5 kinds of "props" such as gems and swords. No matter which one you collect or how many you collect, there will be "rune" tokens in the future. However, there will be additional rewards in the future for collecting 5 different "props", the specific ones have not been revealed yet.

Different from other projects, the ORANGE series introduced a monster called "Hemi" at the beginning. Everyone needs to transfer "gems" to Satoshi's address to "defeat" it. Players who participate in this burning event will receive more "Rune" Tokens in the future.

ORANGE ROYAL TOMB was released on March 6 at a price of 0.001 Bitcoin, with a total of 314 units. Holders of this series will also receive "rune" tokens in the future.

@XCPinata should be the first person to introduce the concept of art + "runes". Whether he introduces the burning bonus event through "Beat Hemi" or the multiple tweets before the release of ORANGE ROYAL TOMB, it can be said to be "runes" There is an outlier in the project who is willing to truly use the method of "telling stories and playing".

Bitcarbon

Bitcarbon is even more alien than ORANGE. This project hasn't been released yet, but I'm really struggling with how to describe it simply...

Simply put, Bitcarbon is a 30-year bet. If the total harm of one ton of carbon emitted by Bitcoin in 30 years is lower than now, then you can redeem this "zero-coupon bond" with "runes" as the carrier. But if on the contrary, the total harm of one ton of carbon emitted by Bitcoin in 30 years is higher than now, then the "zero coupon bond" will return to zero.

Are carbon emissions really harmful? We don't know yet, and the concept of this issue may continue to change in the next 30 years. The fluctuation of this concept is the fluctuation of the price of Bitcarbon. Pricing current actions with future results actually turns Bitcoin and "Rune" into an automated casino...

A few words can only briefly summarize the gameplay of this project, and are not enough to touch upon the author's lengthy thinking behind it... Interested friends can refer to the complete white paper.

Nothing Protocol

This project is made by @DHeavens_TC, the co-founder of Taproot Cows Universe. It is both a generative art and a "rune mining machine" - holding the token will not only harvest future "runes", but the small picture will also change.

In addition, the project team also created a Bitrunic language, aiming to achieve seamless translation between "runes" and Latin letters, specifically used to convert each letter in the English alphabet into its corresponding "rune" one-to-one. Rune" letters. The official font of this project that makes people look awkward is Bitrunic.

In the end, this project has not yet been officially excavated, and it only started at block height 835,000. Its dashboard is based on small pictures. When viewing the details of a single NFT on Magic Eden, click on its picture to see the current mining status (it is still 0 now).

Runes Terminal

This project has not been released yet, the total amount is 5,000, Free Mint. It's not clear whether this PFP will be directly used as a "mining machine", but it feels like it will.

Behind this project is @runespad, a project that has announced since the end of January that it will create a "rune" Launchpad. Runespad has previously announced on its official Twitter account that there will be a native Token $RUNI.

RuneX

This project has been active for a long time. The plan is to build a "rune" trading platform, but now the official website has provided some trading functions for BRC-20, CBRC-20, Tap and PIPE protocol tokens.

According to the tweet, their "Rune Miner" should be called "Secret Weapon" and will be released soon. Last year, they released a PFP called UNNAMED with a total of only 51 pieces. It was originally planned to be released on PIPE, but in the end it was burned in the form of ordinary inscriptions and put on the shelves of Magic Eden last week. This thing could only be traded through OTC before, and it sold a new high of 0.75 Bitcoin on March 2 before it was listed on Magic Eden.

Each UNNAMED will receive 30,882 "Rune" Tokens in the future, and the total number of RuneX "Rune" Tokens will be 21 million.

By the way, there is another @Rune_Pro who also said that he is going to build a "rune" trading platform and has no plans to release a "mining machine" yet. It is worth paying attention to, what if it will be released someday?

BTC Slugs

This project is quite interesting to me, because when I first communicated with foreigners and showed them that the project reached 0.02 Bitcoin, they were all "wtf". Then I took a closer look and saw "runes", good good, I understand, OK.

The "rune" Token rules for this project are cut into two pieces. The first is related to the characteristics of these slugs. Slugs with the following characteristics will be able to obtain different numbers of "rune" tokens in the future. Of course, feature rewards do not stack. If a slug has multiple bonus features, only the highest one will be taken, and the excess will be divided evenly among the poor slugs without bonus features.

In addition, they also have a BRC-20 Token $PERQ, and each $PERQ can obtain 10 "rune" Tokens in the future. The total amount of $PERQ is 5 million, which means that a maximum of 50 million "rune" tokens will be given to $PERQ holders, accounting for 23.8% of the total planned supply of "rune" tokens (210 million).

Rune Kingdom

This may be the first rune project from the Chinese, behind it is Bitcoin Knight@CKN_BIT, and it is also an old project well known to Chinese Ordinals players.

10,000 Rune Dragons were airdropped to Bitcoin Knight holders and some other communities. The mining mechanism is somewhat similar to the Node Apes above. If you want to mine more, you need to match Bitcoin Knight for bonus, and the rarity of Rune Dragon itself will also have some impact.

RuinChainX

It is also a project aiming to develop a "rune" market. Although the results of selling OG cards on BRC-420 were not satisfactory, the project team is still active and has also announced the future "rune" Token economic model:

Rune Zone

I’m not sure yet whether this project will be related to mining “rune” tokens, because the gameplay mentioned so far seems to be about competing for a “rune” prize pool that includes the following prizes: