Rune, a Turing-complete programming language and virtual machine built on Bitcoin's taproot assets, has been released as open source under the MIT license. The project enables custom token issuance and smart contract execution directly on Bitcoin.
Background
Rune is a Layer-2 ecosystem for Bitcoin that allows developers to create custom tokens and smart contracts without modifying the Bitcoin protocol itself, using ordinal inscriptions and taproot assets.
- Source
- Hacker News (RSS)
- Published
- Sep 11, 2026 at 11:31 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10