币界网报道：Alkanes is an application layer meta-protocol based on Bitcoin. It aims to implement smart contract functions on Bitcoin L1 through the Protorunes protocol and OP_RETURN output, and support the development of decentralized applications (dApps). The transactions interacted by Alkanes in the past three months consumed a total of 11.5 BTC in GAS fees, accounting for 12.2% of the total consumption of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Messari analyzed the Alkanes protocol and expressed an optimistic view, predicting that the Bitcoin ecosystem will explode in the second half of 2025. Meta-protocols are secondary protocols built on top of Bitcoin. By embedding and interpreting custom data, they implement functions that are not natively supported by the Bitcoin network. Ordinals and Runes are the current representatives, but their functions are limited, resulting in stagnant innovation. Alkanes was developed by @oylwallet and is based on the WASM smart contract environment. It supports decentralized applications such as AMM DEX, lending protocols, and derivatives. It was launched in January 2025 and became active in March. It consumed 11.5 BTC in gas fees within 3 months. Its main activities include token creation ($DIESEL, $METHANE), NFT (@AlkanePandas, @OylyOnAlkanes) and smart contract ClockInSystem. The demand for Alkanes is higher than Ordinals (6.2 BTC) and slightly lower than Runes (41.7 BTC) and BRC-20 (35.2 BTC). Transactions are mainly conducted on the @idclub_ord platform. In the future, the launch of OYL AMM will enhance the user experience, realize smart contract-driven liquidity pool transactions, and simplify the transaction process. Alkanes represents the evolution of the Bitcoin meta-protocol, promoting the transition from static token issuance to dynamic application deployment, opening a new era of decentralized applications such as AMM, lending markets and NFT platforms, and is expected to become the base layer of Bitcoin native applications.