Bitcoin Developer Proposes DOG Mode Client to Relax Transaction Relay Policies

A new proposal is emerging in the Bitcoin community that could lead to a governance fight. A developer named Leonidas has proposed an open-source client called DOG Mode, which would relax transaction relay policies without altering consensus rules.

DOG Mode targets two key restrictions: increasing the maximum transaction size from 400,000 weight units to 3.9 million and lowering the dust limit from roughly 294-546 satoshis to a single satoshi.

These changes would make it easier to broadcast Ordinals inscriptions and Runes transactions, potentially releasing an estimated $25 million in bitcoin currently locked in output padding.