Bitcoin miners have earned less than 2 Bitcoin combined from Runes transactions over the last six straight days — an enormous drop from its record 884 Bitcoin on April 24.
Runes, a new token standard on the Bitcoin blockchain, has seen its daily average transaction count plummet over 88% from its highest point this month.
Daily Runes transactions averaged out at 37,820 between June 22-28, marking a near-90% fall from the 331,040 daily average seen between June 9-15, according to Dune Analytics data from Crypto Koryo.
It includes 23,238 transactions made on June 24 — the lowest since the protocol launched at Bitcoin’s fourth halving event on April 20.