According to Odaily, Ordinals founder Casey has stated on platform X that runes and inscriptions will have programmability similar to Bitcoin. This implies that improvements to Bitcoin's expressiveness will also impact the performance of runes and inscriptions.
For instance, OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY will allow public coin minting to be organized into OP_CTV trees, which will expand into UTXO subpages containing runes. This will enable users to obtain runes or conduct transactions that are not mined and do not pay any fees, thereby necessitating users to bid for participation in public coin minting and pay fees to acquire runes.
SIGHASH_GROUP will allow for more flexible use of signatures to commit a group of inputs and outputs. It will permit the sale of variable quantities of runes from a single UTXO without the need for splitting, as users can commit to input UTXO, output runes, and payment output. This also makes it easier to elevate runes to the lightning network for some mysterious technical reasons.
The standardization of the Taproot signature appendix, which carves out unstructured data, will allow for the creation of inscriptions in a single transaction, rather than requiring a commitment transaction and a reveal transaction. There are more new features to look forward to in the future.
