How are Bitcoin Runes any different from BRC-20?
Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency to arrive in the financial market, and as a result, has served as a blueprint for all those who followed in its aftermath. Over the years, it has remained relatively reserved in terms of development, operating largely as a trading coin instead of finding new use cases across decentralized finance and applications like many of its peers have done. However, over the past year, it has consistently broadened its horizons. Initially, it was the Ordinals, assets similar to non-fungible tokens, that came to the Bitcoin market.