Leonidas, a bitcoin Ordinals developer, has proposed a new open-source bitcoin client, '$DOG mode', aimed at reducing restrictions on Rune and Ordinals transactions.

Cointelegraph reported on Thursday that the client is focused on easing restrictions related to Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots. A key goal is to make Ordinals inscriptions and Rune transfers easier.

Leonidas said on social media platform X (Twitter) that '$DOG mode' would raise the maximum size of an individual transaction to 3.9 million weight units (WU) and lower the dust limit to 1 satoshi from 294 to 546 satoshis. The maximum size of an individual transaction in Bitcoin Core is 400,000 WU.

Ordinals and Runes have been discussed as concepts corresponding to bitcoin-based non-fungible tokens and fungible tokens. In the bitcoin community, criticism has also continued that they are network spam.

Leonidas argued that Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots have long enforced rules that do not exist in bitcoin itself.

A higher maximum transaction size would make it easier for Ordinals users to include larger files or collections in a single transaction. It would also make it easier to process transactions that are close in size to a full block.

'$DOG mode' was presented as an alternative to the widely used Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots. Leonidas aims to secure enough users of the new client to push Bitcoin Core to ease its own policy restrictions.