SUBFROST says Alkanes made up 61.1% of Bitcoin transactions over a 90-day span

Data released by SUBFROST, the maintainer of the Bitcoin metaprotocol Alkanes, shows that Alkanes transactions accounted for 61.1% of all Bitcoin transactions during the 90 days from June 23 to Sept. 20, covering block heights 954,917 to 967,918. That works out to about 59.9 million transactions. Over the same period, Alkanes represented 40.3% of block space weight, 94.2% of OP_RETURN bytes, and 13.4% of transaction fee revenue. SUBFROST said the figures come from files it publishes daily under an MIT license, with live charts available at subfrost.io/metrics. The company maintains Alkanes, a Bitcoin metaprotocol built on top of the Runes protocol, and said the project community is almost entirely based in the Asia-Pacific region. SUBFROST also provides full Chinese-language documentation and a Chinese data page, operates the official Chinese Telegram for DIESEL, held seminars in China this year, and had a booth at Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong. On the technical side, the company said Alkanes does not alter Bitcoin consensus and does not run as a sidechain.