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Generalized Covenants

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Generalized covenants are covenant designs that can express broad constraints over future transaction structure rather than one narrowly defined spending pattern. They provide a useful boundary for comparing flexible introspection mechanisms with restricted covenant proposals such as CTV or vault-specific constructions.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Covenants Research Compilation (article) Defines generalized versus restricted covenants and surveys the main construction families.
• Bitcoin Optech: Covenants (article) Current technical context for covenant proposals and tradeoffs.
• Programming Bitcoin (book) Background for Script, signatures, and transaction construction.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Bitcoin Covenants

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