Leonidas, co-founder of Runestone, has announced plans to introduce an open-source Bitcoin client named DOG Mode, designed to circumvent BIP 110's restrictions on non-financial data. DOG Mode aims to increase the maximum standard transaction weight unit from 400,000 to 3,900,000, nearly reaching full block capacity, and reduce the dust limit from 294–546 satoshis to 1 satoshi. This change could potentially unlock approximately $25 million in idle funds. BIP 110, which limits arbitrary data through a user-activated soft fork, requires 55% miner support but currently has almost none. DOG Mode, however, does not require consensus or voting, only changes to individual node relay rules. If enough nodes adopt it and miners accept it, transactions can be confirmed. Leonidas emphasized that DOG Mode deviates less from Core than Knots and urged developers and miners to support the initiative. Meanwhile, the DOG token price has decreased by 1.2% in the past 24 hours.