How to Get Started with Cardano Native Script

Question

What resources should you use to learn native script and in what order should you use them in?

Answer 1

You can find fairly extensive documentation on Cardano Native Script (aka Simple Script) here.

In short, you can define a JSON object with a simple set of rules known as scripts to validate operations around:

• Payment (e.g. spending unspent transaction outputs, i.e. UTxOs at a payment address)
• Staking (e.g. withdrawing rewards at a stake/reward address and delegation)
• Minting (e.g. minting and burning of native assets under a policy)

Each script has a type defining different combinations of scripts required to validate an operation:

• sig a signature witness of a key
• after a point in time
• before a point in time
• atLeast M of N nested scripts
• any of N nested scripts
• all of N nested scripts

Given these script types, you can have fairly complex nested validation rules and order does not make a difference within the nested scripts.