Cointelegraph · Korbinian Kettnaker · 2d ago

Bitcoin Covenants Part 5: MATT and OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY — How Bitcoin could carry state across transactions

OP_CCV embeds contract state directly into Taproot output keys and enforces valid state transitions onchain. This makes it possible to achieve stateful contracts and compact fraud proofs.

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