Runes Transaction Fees
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About this metric
What it measures
Runes Transaction Fees is the daily sum of Bitcoin transaction fees paid by transactions classified as Runes-related, measured in sats. It measures aggregate fees, not the average fee per transaction or the value of Runes tokens transferred.
How to read it
Higher totals can reflect more Runes transactions, higher fee rates, or both; lower totals indicate less fee spending by this category. The launch-day reading on April 20, 2024 reached 97,190 million sats, while the highest daily total in 2025 was about 475M sats, illustrating how strongly the initial burst differed from later activity.
Fee totals depend on transaction sizes and competition from the rest of the network. They cannot isolate token demand or show a typical user's cost; compare transaction counts and Runes Fee Share, and divide the fees in sats by 100,000,000 and multiply by the relevant BTC price when assessing dollar expenditure.
- Frequency
- Daily (UTC 00:00)
- Asset
- BTC
- Category
- Transfers & Transactions
- Type
- Single value
- Unit
- sats
- Data since
- 2024-04-20
- Latest data
- 2026-10-27
FAQ
Are Runes fees paid in sats or in Runes tokens?
These are Bitcoin network fees paid to miners, shown in sats (1 BTC = 100,000,000 sats). They are separate from the market value of any Runes tokens involved.
Is this the average cost of a Runes transaction?
No. It is the sum across all identified Runes-related transactions that day. Dividing by the corresponding daily Runes transaction count gives the mean fee in sats.
Why were Runes fees so high at the start of the chart?
The series begins on April 20, 2024 with its recorded high of 97,190 million sats. That launch-day total was exceptional and should not be treated as a normal daily fee budget.
