Yesterday, Runestone, a Bitcoin Ordinals project led by anonymous collector and NFT expert LeonidasNFT, achieved a historic milestone by mining “the largest inscription ever, AGAIN!”
Coming in at a whopping 3.97 MB, ‘Inscription 63,150,674’ was mined through a collaboration between Marathon Digital’s Slipstream, a service for direct Bitcoin transaction submissions via its MARA mining pool, and OrdinalsBot, which streamlines Ordinals, using Casey Rodarmor’s protocol.
The project’s name, Runestone, aligns with the upcoming Runes token standard by Rodarmor. Though it does belong to the Runes ecosystem, it’s not a Runes token – yet.
Leonidas explained the rationale behind the Runestone initiative in a recent post on X, stating, “The top blockchain in the world should have the top meme coin in the world.”
To achieve this vision, he’s pressing for an extensive airdrop approach, sharing that, “The top meme coin in the world should be distributed through a substantial free airdrop without any allocation to the team, to the most dedicated community.”
How do I become eligible for the airdrop?
Although an exact date for the airdrop is yet to be revealed, the requirements to be eligible have been made public.
Users will be required to paste their Bitcoin address into the Runestone airdrop’s interface. Over 112,000 Ordinals wallets will qualify, provided they hold at least three inscriptions from block 826,600 onwards, excluding “text/plain” or “application/JSON” types.
Airdrop eligibility will also extend to “cursed inscriptions”, which are Ordinals that the Ord Indexer – a tool designed for tracking and registering inscriptions – initially missed, resulting in their absence from wallets and marketplaces.
The present price for one of these assets on the Solana-powered Whales Market platform stands at $545 USD.
Runestone will not be the first Bitcoin Rune – no such claim can be made before the Runes Protocol is launched – but even so, due to its pioneering contributions to blockchain innovation, Runestone is rapidly gaining prominence in the Bitcoin inscription ecosystem.
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