This article will introduce you to the recent new protocol for Bitcoin asset issuance
1. Rune.Alpha
The reason why Rune Alpha has become popular is mainly due to the concept of "runes" that has been highly discussed recently. The concept and origin of "runes" have been introduced in previous tweets, and I will briefly introduce them here.
The concept of "Runes" was originally proposed by Casey, and gained attention again due to BTC Core core developer Luke's opposition to "Inscriptions". One essential difference between "runes" and "inscriptions" is that "runes" are stored in UTXO, while "inscriptions" like Ordinals-based BRC-20 are JSON text stored in Bitcoin Script's Segwit data.