Bitcoin Ecosystem 2024 Annual Report
January
• U.S. SEC officially approves spot Bitcoin ETF
• BRC20 Ordinals Jubilee upgrade event: Unisat wants to upgrade, Domo does not want to upgrade
• RSIC completes airdrop for the Ordinals community
• Ninja Pizza Ninjas NFT collection starts minting on ME
• Puppet Bitcoin Puppets NFT collection releases
• Atomicals protocol is also very popular: Quark and Sophon are successively fully minted
BTC price lowest 38,000, highest 48,000
February
• Binance Web3 wallet launches inscription market
• Great Wizard project: Quantum Cats NFT collection goes on sale
• BTC L2 projects flourish: Merlin, B², Babylon successively open staking
BTC price lowest 41,000, highest 64,000
March
• Ordi reaches all-time high price of 96u
• RuneStone mined the two largest Bitcoin blocks in history
• RuneStone officially airdrops
• Casey's bold statement: If runes don't reach a market cap of 1 billion in less than a month after launch, I will self-harm
• OKX Web3 wallet launches Atomicals trading market
• OKX Web3 wallet supports Rune Alpha protocol
• Casey releases documentation for the rune protocol
• BRC20 5-character inscriptions go live
BTC price lowest 59,000, highest 73,000
April
• Casey announces Genesis Rune No. 0 UNCOMMON•GOODS
• BLOB NFT collection released, free minting
• Geniidata releases NFT collection Feeling Good, free minting
• RGB++ and CKB begin to gain popularity, asset Seal rises a hundredfold
• Binance wallet stops supporting Bitcoin NFT trading and deposit services
• Hong Kong Web3 Conference
• BTC halving, Rune Protocol launches mainnet, Gas peaks at 2400
• OKX, ME, Unisat, DotSwap launch rune trading market
• DOG and RuneCoin airdrop
• RuneCoin goes live on OKX exchange
BTC price lowest 59,000, highest 72,000
May
• Puppet BRC20 PUPS migrates to Rune PUPS•WORLD•PEACE
• The concept of OP_CAT begins to gain popularity, Great Wizard claims there is a chance to activate it on the mainnet this year
• Unisat issues BRC20 Pizza, meet interaction conditions to claim
• RUNES·X·BITCOIN completes airdrop and goes live on Bitget
• Atomicals releases AVM virtual machine white paper
• BILLION•DOLLAR•CAT billion cat fair launch and minting completed
BTC price lowest 56,000, highest 71,000
June
• 5-character inscription Pizza token completes airdrop, market response is enthusiastic
• COOK•THE•MEMPOOL large-scale truck completes minting after 28 days
• Unisat officially announces Bitcoin L2 project Fractal Bitcoin branch Bitcoin
BTC price lowest 58,000, highest 71,000
July
• UniSat announces it received Pre-A round financing from Binance, related assets rise
• EPIC•EPIC•EPIC•EPIC airdrop
• Gas fees drop to a minimum of 2, runes are dead, while Rune No. 0 is minted in large quantities
• Xverse wallet releases new version, integrates Rune Swap
• Fractal Bitcoin testnet is booming, everywhere is giving out water to participate in testing
BTC price lowest 53,000, highest 70,000
August
• OKX rune trading market upgraded, supports K-line trend interface
• Magic Eden officially announces information about its token ME
• Fractal Bitcoin public test network goes live, activates OP_CAT
• Magic Eden launches NFT version of Pumpfun
BTC price lowest 49,000, highest 66,000
September
• Rune No. 0 surpasses BRC20 SATS to become the most minted token in Bitcoin history
• Fractal Bitcoin launches FB airdrop; meet specified conditions to claim FB on Unisat and OKX
• Leo reveals that Satoshi Nakamoto is evil, various big shots denounce, Satoshi Nakamoto is called out
• DECENTRALIZED team sends Rune No. 2 to Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet, announces community governance and decentralization
• Fractal Bitcoin mainnet officially launches
• CAT20 debuts in Fractal Bitcoin, sparking a minting frenzy
• DotSwap launches CAT20代打 platform and trading market
• Minting of BRC20 in Fractal Bitcoin continues to be hot: GLIZZY, MOONCATS, etc.
• PizzaSwap officially launches on Fractal mainnet
BTC price lowest 52,000, highest 66,000
October
• Mempool browser supports inscriptions and rune markers
• Branch Bitcoin PizzaSwap goes live
• Rune Gold Dog GIZMO•IMAGINARY•KITTEN sparks a craze for rune minting
• Magic Eden launches mempool protection feature
• CAT721 protocol's first collection 'Locked-up Cats' released, numerous lotteries
• Casey's MEMENTO•MORI airdrop and minting
• Ai concept token CYPHER•GENESIS is fully minted
• 16th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper
BTC price lowest 58,000, highest 73,000
November
• Smile SMILE goes live on multiple exchanges
• Magic Eden launches mempool protection feature
• π, Ω, FIFA and several BRC20 promotional projects perform excellently, π market cap once surpassed ordi
• OKX exchange launches rune DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON contract, driving price increase
• Fractal CAT20 protocol leader token CAT is renamed to OPCAT
• Magic Eden launches Rune Swap
BTC price lowest 66,000, highest 99,000
December
• BTC breaks 100,000 USD
• Magic Eden token ME officially launches, opens token claims, and also goes live on Binance, OKX and other exchanges
• Binance Web3 wallet removes inscription market, criticized by the community
• Pizza Pets airdrop and start of nurturing game
• Branch Bitcoin's first Pump platform SatspmupFun goes live
• Fractal Bitcoin releases Christmas egg hunt event
• OKX wallet market launches CAT20 trading market
BTC price lowest 90,000, highest 108,000
2025 Bitcoin breaks 300,000, Bitcoin ecosystem explodes!