Despite the recent market downturn, everyones expectations and enthusiasm for Runes remain unabated. As a degen player focusing on the NFT field, I have two deep feelings in the past week. First, Bitcoin NFT is the only place in the current NFT market that has attracted attention from both China and abroad and is not PvP. The only other chain that can be regarded as somewhat popular is Base, and Bases players are mainly in the English circle, and most of them are art projects, which is much more difficult to play than Bitcoin. Second, the Rune project has completely become the main line of the Bitcoin NFT market. Although the little wizard Bitcoin Wizards and the $WZRD Token on BRC-20 have risen nearly 5 times and 15 times respectively in the past week, the wizard meme has regained market attention and the strength of the puppet monkey Bitcoin Puppets has a strong correlation, and the main reason for the recent explosion of the puppet monkey is Rune.
The editor did an inventory of Rune projects for everyone some time ago (Related reading: Will Runestone bring about a rune craze? A list of 14 runes worth paying attention to ). One month has passed, and Rune has not only become the absolute main line of the Bitcoin NFT market, but the popular Rune projects have also undergone some changes. Now, dry mining (that is, the NFT itself is just a mining machine) projects are no longer attractive enough. Only projects that have a high level of attention and community, or projects with a Rune infrastructure narrative (such as Launchpad, DEX, browsers, etc.) can stand out. After all, after the final landing and issuing of Tokens, the competition is not about mining tricks, but a real consensus or narrative competition.
The more well-known rune projects have risen to relatively high positions, such as Runestone, Rune Pups, RSIC, etc. The editor here summarizes some recent Ordinals new project dynamics that are worth paying attention to.
Prometheans by CyberKongz
CyberKongz, the OG project that pioneered NFT staking mining in ETH, has come to the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem. This project was once a T0-level old blue chip, with a floor price of nearly 200 ETH at its highest. Its Token $BANANA has a historical high price of $105, and a peak market value of nearly $90 million.
Prometheans is the official Rune project of CyberKongz. Although the ultimate goal is to achieve Rune Token, this is the Rune project that I have seen so far that is most attentive in picture artistry. CyberKongz carefully introduced the artistic design behind the project on the official Twitter account. It can be said that it uses the standard of collectibles to make mining machines...
The project will be issued this week, Free Mint, with a total supply of 21,000, 85% of which will be allocated to Ordinals ecological cooperation projects selected by CyberKongz, and 15% will be allocated to CyberKongz holders.
Starlight Runes by Rosentica
Rosentica is an anime NFT project created by artists @rmflawha 12 and @TabinekoKIKI on ETH. Following the craze of runes, Rosentica is also about to come to the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem to release the rune project Starlight Runes.
The project will Free Mint, with a total supply of 2,000, with the majority distributed to Rosentica NFT holders and the remainder to its selected Ordinals ecological partner community.
Everyday Satoshis
First of all, it should be said that this project will clearly have a token $CLTR, but it is not certain whether this token will be a Rune.
I actually paid attention to this project at the end of September last year. Now half a year has passed, the halving and runes are coming, and this project has finally been unveiled.
Artist @Degen_Alfie has proven himself on ETH. For example, the work Degen Alphabet in the picture below was sold on SuperRare for 69.420 ETH in October 2022.
Everyday Satoshis is a pixel art series created to commemorate the halving, with a total of 5586. From the Bitcoin genesis block to the upcoming fourth halving, 15 years, 5586 days. Each pixel block has a data showing the date and the daily highest price of Bitcoin against the US dollar from the genesis block to the fourth halving, 5,586 days.
@Degen_Alfie revealed that soon after Everyday Satoshis is launched, he and his team’s blockchain art market will also launch V1 version. The team currently has 12 members and he raised a small round of angel investment in January this year. So this is not only a good halving commemorative Bitcoin NFT art series, but also a bit of the flavor of the genesis series of the new blockchain art market.
BLIFStone
Opal Protocol is distributing benefits to Runestone holders. If you hold Runestone, don’t forget to like and retweet this tweet , and leave the bc 1 p address holding Runestone.
To be honest, I don’t really understand what Opal Protocol is going to do… But I do understand one thing, that is, what they are going to do will be driven by their token $BLIF, and $BLIF will be a token that combines ETH + BRC-20 + runes. From a degen perspective, Opal has a big background, Animoca Brands and Darewise are the founders of this project. Darewise is a subsidiary of Animoca. They have a game called Life Beyond that was announced last year to be migrated to the Bitcoin ecosystem. They also released a series called Sparks, which is an entry ticket to a high-end social circle.
KarmaStone
OCM (OnChainMonkey) launched their own Token $KARMA on the Tap protocol earlier this year, and now they are continuing to work on Rune. The specific details are yet to be disclosed.
The Rune Hunt
@RuneX_Tech created a web game using Unreal Engine, where players can pre-mine their Rune tokens by playing the game. I have to sigh that the competition for attention between infrastructure projects has resulted in different results...
After the game was launched yesterday, the server was overwhelmed. We have to wait for notification from the project party on when it will be reopened. Please pay attention to it.
In addition, in the competition among Rune infrastructure projects to attract attention, the editor believes that RuneX and the newly released Ape Odyssey series Runes Terminal are currently the best performers.
Pixel Pix
@gamestarter s own game studio GGXYZ Studio is planning to release a P2E game on Bitcoin, but there are not many details yet.
Conclusion
There are so many new Bitcoin NFT projects released every day recently that many of my friends play at least 3 a day. The winning rate of new projects is indeed higher now, but don’t be too FOMO and be cautious in choosing carefully.
As for the Rune project, I think we can expect to see more NFT projects from ETH and even other chains enter the Bitcoin ecosystem. After all, Rune is one of the hottest narratives in the entire Crypto circle. When choosing a Rune project, the key is to examine the projects own influence and community quality. It is difficult for a project to stand out just by relying on some fancy mining methods.
In the case of multiple projects being minted in one time period, you may need to reasonably cut more UTXOs, because the confirmation time of two Bitcoin blocks is really long and unstable, and the blockage will affect your mood and may even miss the minting time of some projects. I recommend you to refer to this article: Runes Protocol is about to be launched, what preparations do users need to make for participation?
Finally, I wish you all a fruitful Rune Season. I will try my best to update you with new projects worth paying attention to.
