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Recursive Covenants

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Recursive covenants are spending constraints that reproduce or preserve covenant conditions in the outputs created by a spend. They can enforce rules across repeated transaction generations and therefore introduce distinct liveness, escape, and complexity tradeoffs.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Covenants Research Compilation (article) Defines recursive covenants and places them in the broader covenant design space.
• Bitcoin Optech: Covenants (article) Technical context for covenant recursion, exits, and application tradeoffs.
• Programming Bitcoin (book) Background for Script, transaction outputs, and spending conditions.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Bitcoin Covenants

Direct dependents (0)

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