Runes Handbook
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Origins
    • Segregated Witness (SegWit) Upgrade
    • Taproot Upgrade
    • Inscriptions
    • Ordinal Theory (Ordinals)
      • Rarity
      • Supply of Rare Satoshis
      • Names
    • BRC-20
    • Why Runes?
  • 3. Runes
    • Bitcoin’s UTXO Model
    • The Runes Protocol
    • OP_Return
    • Motivation for Runes
    • Bitcoin Runes vs BRC-20
    • Launch
      • The First Runes
    • What are Bitcoin Runes For?
      • Memecoins
      • DeFi
  • 4. How Do Bitcoin Runes Work?
    • Etching (Creating a Rune)
      • Name
      • Symbol
      • Divisibility
      • Premine
      • Terms
    • Minting
    • Transfering
    • Runestone
    • Rune Seasons
    • Ecosystem
      • Launchpads
      • Marketplaces
      • Wallets
      • Data / Analysis
      • Explorers
    • Storing Bitcoin Runes
  • 5. Terminology
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Memecoins

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will likely always play a part in the crypto market. NFT memes have sold for millions of dollars. Some of the most popular coins in existence are purely built on memes.

As the most popular network, many Bitcoin memecoins using the BRC-20 protocols have seen huge successes.

In preparation for the Runes launch, some leading Bitcoin memecoins, such as and announced they would migrate their existing BRC-20 tokens to the new Runes protocol.

We are likely to see a lot more Bitcoin memecoins launching as Runes into the future.

Memecoins
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