The Bitcoin protocol Ordinals has launched "recursive inscriptions," allowing inscription sizes to exceed the 4MB limit

ChainCatcher news, the new chief maintainer of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, Raph, recently merged the "Recursive Inscription" update 2167 proposed by the creator of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, Casey Rodarmor, into the Ordinals code on Github. According to developer Leonidas.og's interpretation, inscriptions can now request the content of other inscriptions using the special "/-/content/:inscription_id" syntax. This simple change unlocks many powerful use cases.

For example, instead of separately inscribing 10,000 JPEG files for a PFP collection, which would be quite expensive, you can inscribe 200 traits from the collection and then create 10,000 inscriptions, each using a small amount of code to request the traits and render the images programmatically. The result is the same. The artwork is simply stored on-chain in a more efficient way, potentially saving over a million dollars in transaction fees.

Additionally, it is possible to fully inscribe many code packages on the Bitcoin chain, as the code (in text form) is very small, allowing inscription sizes to break through the Bitcoin block size limit of 4MB, enabling complex 3D video games to be fully on-chain on Bitcoin. (Source link)