#Alkanes 已经是 # The most powerful real users currently active on the BTC mainnet OP_RETURN are no longer the "new protocol with no users" from before.

This image and the linked article discuss a few points:
1️⃣. #Alkanes has real on-chain activity.
BTC analyst @CunyRenaud analyzed OP_RETURN outputs over the past 60 days, showing that 91% come from Alkanes protostones, and this proportion has remained stable, not just a few pulse peaks.
This indicates that expensive BTC block space is being continuously occupied by the #Alkanes protocol, with Alkanes paying miners to buy space persistently.
2️⃣. #Alkanes causes relatively little long-term pollution to the UTXO set.
Alkanes protostone transactions consume block space and generate a large volume of transactions, but they hardly cause long-term UTXO set bloat. Sampling shows that about 99% of the dominant shape is regular P2WPKH self-spend, and all have been spent; outputs are flowing and circulating, not accumulating long-term in the UTXO set.
This indicates that Alkanes and inscriptions in 2023 leave different lasting UTXO traces.
3️⃣. The BIP-110 debate shows that #Alkanes has become too important to ignore.
BIP-110 will not remove the existing 19 million mint/transfer/contract call messages because those are just "leaves"; what BIP-110 targets are the "roots," i.e., contract deployments.
Alkanes' factory model involves deploying a contract code once, then many users interact with it via cheap, small protostone messages afterward.
In other words, opponents of BIP-110 are only debating whether to prevent the "next Alkanes protocol" from being deployed on BTC L1, but they can no longer stop Alkanes' ongoing activity and development.