# metashrew

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

The indexer that runs alkanes.wasm over the chain and records every Alkanes call as a trace. BTI's metashrew adapter treats it as definitional, because its ruleset is the protocol. The indexer table calls it "routinely the pass's binding clamp": when it lags, the catalogue stage waits for it.

Sources:

- Blockspace Holdings records

Updated: 2026-10-20