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Bitcoin Covenants

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Covenants constrain how coins can be spent in future transactions. They enable advanced contract constructions such as vaults, payment pools, and congestion-control trees.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Covenants (article) Implementation context and ecosystem progress.
• Covenants.info Use Case: Transaction Templating (article) Concrete covenant-style use case showing template-constrained spending trees.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Comprehensive reference for Script, transactions, and advanced protocol design.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Taproot

Direct dependents (6)

• Direct Introspection Proposals
• MATT and CCV
• OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV)
• OP_VAULT Proposal
• Spacechains
• TXHASH Proposal

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