Glossary¶
- address
The address of an UTXO says where the output is “going”. The address stipulates the conditions for unlocking the output. This can be a public key hash, or (in the Extended UTXO model) a script hash.
- Cardano
The blockchain system upon which the Plutus Platform is built.
- currency
A class of token whose minting is controlled by a particular monetary policy script. On the Cardano ledger there is a special currency called Ada which can never be minted and which is controlled separately.
- datum
The data field on script outputs in the Extended UTXO model.
- Extended UTXO Model
The ledger model which the Plutus Platform relies on.
This is implemented in the Alonzo hard fork of the Cardano blockchain.
See Sổ cái là gì?.
- minting
A transaction which mints tokens creates new tokens, providing that the corresponding minting policy script is satisfied. The amount minted can be negative, in which case the tokens will be destroyed instead of created.
- minting policy script
A script which must be satisfied in order for a transaction to mint tokens of the corresponding currency.
- Hydra
A Layer 2 scalability solution for Cardano. See Chakravarty et al. [3].
- distributed ledger
- ledger
See Sổ cái là gì?.
- Marlowe
A domain-specific language for writing financial contract applications.
- multi-asset
A generic term for a ledger which supports multiple different asset types natively.
- off-chain code
The part of a contract application’s code which runs off the chain, usually as a contract application.
- on-chain code
The part of a contract application’s code which runs on the chain (i.e. as scripts).
- Plutus Core
The programming language in which scripts on the Cardano blockchain are written. Plutus Core is a small functional programming language — a formal specification is available with further details. Plutus Core is not read or written by humans, it is a compilation target for other languages.
- Plutus IR
An intermediate language that compiles to Plutus Core. Plutus IR is not used by users, but rather as a compilation target on the way to Plutus Core. However, it is significantly more human-readable than Plutus Core, so should be preferred in cases where humans may want to inspect the program.
- Plutus Platform
The combined software support for writing contract applications, including:
Plutus Foundation, and
The Plutus Application Framework
- Plutus Tx
The libraries and compiler for compiling Haskell into Plutus Core to form the on-chain part of a contract application.
- redeemer
The argument to the validator script which is provided by the transaction which spends a script output.
- rollback
The result of the local node switching to the consensus chain.
- script
A generic term for an executable program used in the ledger. In the Cardano blockchain, these are written in Plutus Core.
- script context
A data structure containing a summary of the transaction being validated, as well as a way of identifying the current script being run.
- script output
A UTXO locked by a script.
- token
A generic term for a native tradeable asset in the ledger.
- transaction output
Outputs produced by transactions. They are consumed when they are spent by another transaction. Typically, some kind of evidence is required to be able to spend a UTXO, such as a signature from a public key, or (in the Extended UTXO Model) satisfying a script.
- UTXO
An unspent transaction output
- utxo congestion
The effect of multiple transactions attempting to spend the same transaction output.
- validator script
The script attached to a script output in the Extended UTXO model. Must be run and return positively in order for the output to be spent. Determines the address of the output.