According to Foresight News, Merlin Chain's ecological application, UniCross, has launched the Rune Protocol on its testnet. The protocol supports the indexing and minting of Runes. UniCross reported that within 12 hours of the Rune Protocol going live on the testnet, it received over 200,000 requests for Rune minting. The cumulative minting fee exceeded 6 BTC. Currently, the number of transactions in the Bitcoin Testnet memory pool has surpassed 150,000, with the Gas fee rate exceeding 20 sat/vB.