# alkane

URL: https://blockspace.wiki/glossary/alkane/

A token of the Alkanes protocol: a contract run by a WebAssembly program (alkanes.wasm, "the protocol" in BTI's indexer table) and called through protostones. Its identity is its AlkaneId, written `block:tx`; DIESEL is `2:0`. In BTI every contract whose code ran in a transaction claims that transaction's bytes, as do the alkanes whose balances moved, and metashrew's trace is the record.

Sources:

- Blockspace Holdings records

Updated: 2026-10-20