Runes were supposed to be Bitcoin’s memecoins.
The problem was never creating them.
It was trading them.
A Rune doesn’t trade like a Solana memecoin. There’s no bonding curve or pool you can instantly sell into. You list what you own, wait for someone to buy it, then wait for Bitcoin to confirm the trade.
When the market is moving fast, that difference matters.
Etchy is our attempt to give Runes the trading experience they were missing.
When you launch on Etchy, you aren’t choosing between Bitcoin and Solana.
Your coin starts on both.
The Solana side is where the market trades.
It launches on a bonding curve priced in BTC, but users buy and sell with SOL. Trades happen in seconds, there is always a live price, and selling doesn’t depend on finding another person willing to buy your exact listing.
At the same time, Etchy etches the coin as a real Rune on Bitcoin.
The entire Rune supply is held against the Solana supply 1:1.
That means the Solana token isn’t just another copy of a Bitcoin meme.
It represents the same supply.
If you want to hold the Rune on Bitcoin, bridge to Bitcoin.
If you want to trade it quickly again, bridge back to Solana.
One coin, with a liquid Solana market and a real Bitcoin Rune behind it.
We also fixed one of the stranger limitations of Runes: they have almost no identity on their own.
A Rune can have a name, but it can’t natively carry everything people expect from a coin today.
So every Etchy Rune is created together with an inscription in the same Bitcoin transaction.
That inscription permanently connects it to its:
logo
ticker
description
links
Solana contract address
From the Rune’s first block, anyone can see what it is and which Solana market belongs to it.
Even naming is handled differently.
You don’t pick a Rune name and race someone else to etch it first.
Bitcoin assigns the Rune name during the launch, making that name its Bitcoin identifier from the start.
Then the rest of the launch works much closer to what people already expect from Solana:
Your dev buy is included as the first trade of the launch, so nobody can buy before you.
Launching itself is free. You only cover the Bitcoin and Solana network costs, shown in SOL before you approve.
0.25% of every trade goes to the coin creator
Creator fees can be claimed whenever the creator wants.
Once the bonding curve reaches ₿0.115, the coin graduates to a Meteora pool and its liquidity is locked forever.
$ETCHY CA: GM8EysYT8NRSsoULdeYShbRsUdhoUoiB9EN4eW3YETCH
Buyback and burn: 25% of the fees Etchy earns on every coin buy back $ETCHY, and every token bought is burned forever.
Holder rewards: 0.5% of every trade goes to the top 100 holders of $ETCHY in WBTC, every 4 hours. Ranked and paid by balance × time held: hold more or hold longer, earn more. No rewards for wallets over 4% of the supply.
All automatic. Every buyback, burn and payout is public on https://t.co/RqNM4il33C and https://t.co/ppBe3QjIOq.
Runes gave Bitcoin a way to create memecoins.
Etchy gives those memecoins somewhere they can actually move.
A real Rune on Bitcoin.
A real market on Solana.
Connected 1:1.
Bitcoin Runes at Solana speed.
https://t.co/O9sj7vmGBB
Imagine what Bitcoin trenches look like once actual Bitcoin users discover Etchy.
Instant liquidity. Easy buys. Easy sells. BTC in, real Rune out.
For the first time, Runes can actually trade like memecoins.
Only on Etchy.
This is what Rune trading was supposed to feel like.
For the first time ever, BTC users can buy Runes faster than anywhere else.
Pay with BTC: buys fill in a second, and real Runes land in your Bitcoin wallet.
Or launch a Rune with just BTC, tradable from the first second by BTC and Solana wallets.
https://t.co/CToIMQ4Xb7
Selling is just as simple: sell straight from your Bitcoin wallet, and the BTC comes back to it.
Every token is backed 1:1 by a real Rune in Etchy custody, so what you hold is the real thing.
Try it: https://t.co/CToIMQ4plz
For the first time ever, BTC users can buy Runes faster than anywhere else.
Pay with BTC: buys fill in a second, and real Runes land in your Bitcoin wallet.
Or launch a Rune with just BTC, tradable from the first second by BTC and Solana wallets.
https://t.co/CToIMQ4Xb7
Launching with BTC:
Set your dev buy in BTC and pay from your Bitcoin wallet. Etchy etches your Rune on Bitcoin, and it trades from the first second.
Your dev buy lands in your wallet as real Runes. Creator fees are paid to you in BTC.
You asked, we built it: Custom Rune names are live.
We started with Bitcoin's names for a reason: on Runes, whoever etches a name first owns it. A Bitcoin name is unique, like a Solana CA.
Your name, ticker, logo and links live on Bitcoin in the metadata.
https://t.co/GpuUBbiegx
NEW on Etchy: the Bitcoin Market.
Every coin that graduates
bonding curve → Meteora.
native Bitcoin market opens + Bitcoin settlement incentives begin.
So the Rune will have two markets:
Solana Market: instant trading
Bitcoin Market: the real Rune, peer to peer, on Bitcoin
List your Runes at your price. Buy up to 20 listings in one transaction. Everything is signed in your own wallet.
Etchy never holds your Runes or BTC.
Almost 5% of solana:GM8EysYT8NRSsoULdeYShbRsUdhoUoiB9EN4eW3YETCH supply has already been bridged to Runes.
And there’s a reason to hold it there too:
Rune-side holders earn 3x more rewards, paid directly in BTC to their wallets.
solana:GM8EysYT8NRSsoULdeYShbRsUdhoUoiB9EN4eW3YETCH is now a Bitcoin Rune.
ETCHY•FUN · Rune 971505:1052 · symbol E, backed 1:1 and bridged in one click on https://t.co/O9sj7vm8M3.
1% of every solana:GM8EysYT8NRSsoULdeYShbRsUdhoUoiB9EN4eW3YETCH trade goes to holders:
75% to ETCHY•FUN holders, paid in BTC
25% to solana:GM8EysYT8NRSsoULdeYShbRsUdhoUoiB9EN4eW3YETCH holders, paid in WBTC
Every 4 hours.
Backed 1:1: every solana:GM8EysYT8NRSsoULdeYShbRsUdhoUoiB9EN4eW3YETCH on Solana has its ETCHY•FUN held in Etchy's custody, and every bridge checks that.
Bridge either way, any time.
ETCHY•FUN · Rune 971505:1052 · symbol E
https://t.co/N8B3P6Szmr
solana:GM8EysYT8NRSsoULdeYShbRsUdhoUoiB9EN4eW3YETCH is now a Bitcoin Rune.
ETCHY•FUN · Rune 971505:1052 · symbol E, backed 1:1 and bridged in one click on https://t.co/O9sj7vm8M3.
1% of every solana:GM8EysYT8NRSsoULdeYShbRsUdhoUoiB9EN4eW3YETCH trade goes to holders:
75% to ETCHY•FUN holders, paid in BTC
25% to solana:GM8EysYT8NRSsoULdeYShbRsUdhoUoiB9EN4eW3YETCH holders, paid in WBTC
Every 4 hours.
Using Xverse? Keep "Also send my BTC rewards to my Bitcoin address" ticked when you bridge and sign once (free, no transaction).
Your Runes stay on your Ordinals address, and your BTC rewards land in your normal Bitcoin balance.
"OFFICIAL SATOSHI", a Rune on Etchy, just graduated.
Its creator routed 100% of creator fees to Satoshi's genesis address. 0.0085 BTC has been sent there so far, in real BTC on Bitcoin, automatically.
Real Rune on Bitcoin. Trades on Solana. Fees paid in BTC.
Example only, not an endorsement.
Etchy collects the fees from trades every 2 minutes.
Every 15 minutes, Etchy's payout wallet sends each Bitcoin address what it's owed, in one Bitcoin transaction. The WBTC those fees came from is converted back into BTC to refill that wallet.
Every payout is public on the coin page with its Bitcoin tx.