diff --git a/bip122/caip10.md b/bip122/caip10.md index 3a304ea7..a60b8bc9 100644 --- a/bip122/caip10.md +++ b/bip122/caip10.md @@ -1,30 +1,59 @@ --- namespace-identifier: bip122-caip10 title: BIP122 Namespace - Addresses -author: Simon Warta (@webmaster128), ligi , Pedro Gomes (@pedrouid) +author: Simon Warta (@webmaster128), ligi , Pedro Gomes (@pedrouid), bumblefudge (@bumblefudge), RareData (@RareData) discussions-to: https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/namespaces/pulls/3 status: Draft type: Standard created: 2019-12-05 -updated: 2022-03-27 +updated: 2024-06-05 requires: ["CAIP-2", "CAIP-10"] replaces: CAIP-4 --- -# CAIP-10 - *For context, see the [CAIP-10][] specification.* ## Rationale While Ethereum "accounts" were the unstated norm in the definition of -[CAIP-10][], the "script hashes" addressing schemed defined by [BIP13][] map +[CAIP-10][], the "script hashes" addressing scheme defined by [BIP13][] map well enough to "account"-model blockchains that these can be described by a -CAIP-10 reference. +CAIP-10 reference as "addresses". Other aspects of the UTXO wallet and transaction model (choice of inputs, arbitrary data in witness sections of a segwit transaction, multi-party signature methods, etc.) are topics of ongoing research and community input is welcome, although additional CAIPs may be needed to specify them for chain-agnostic purposes. ## Syntax -See [Specification section of BIP13](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0013.mediawiki#Specification). +At time of writing, only three kinds of address are currently in wide use, with a fourth mostly obsolete in modern usage. +All four, in their most common ASCII base-encodings (base-58-btc, bech32, and bech32m; see below) are of a short enough length to simply include them in their entirety as the `account_address` segment of a [CAIP-10] identifier. +This choice not to transform or subset addresses preserves checksum, sortability, and detectability features of all three modern address types, while also minimizing collision risk. + +In order of their adoption on Bitcoin mainnet, the four types of addresses in Bitcoin are: + +1. Legacy address, aka pay-to-publickey-hash (P2PKH). These begin with `1` and are [base58btc]-encoded. Defined in the [bitcoin whitepaper][], these are exceedingly rare in contemporary practice due to higher transaction fees and limited functionality compared to the newer types described below. Legacy addresses are not derived from "extended keys" as per the subsequent [BIP44] standard, but are rather hashes of unique public keys, which makes them a weak analogue to addresses in "account-model" systems; for these reasons, they are excluded from [CAIP-10] usage. +2. Pay-to-script-hash (P2SH) address. These were specified in the early [BIP13], and swiftly became the dominant address and signature type in the early years of Bitcoin usage after becoming supported by a [soft fork][BIP16] in 2012. They are [base58btc]-encoded and always begin with `3` in ASCII form on Bitcoin mainnet. +3. Native Segregated-Witness Address (SegWit), aka pay-to-wrapped-publickey-hash (P2WPKH) Address. The derivation of these was standardized in [BIP84], and the soft-fork supporting them at the protocol level on Bitcoin mainnet was coordinated by [BIP141]. They are encoded into ASCII according to the [`bech32`][BIP173] algorithm, and always begin with `bc1q` on Bitcoin mainnet. At time of press, these are nearly universal due to lower transaction fees and higher security than older types. +4. Taproot (P2TR). They are encoded into ASCII according to the [`bech32m`][BIP350] algorithm, and always begin with `bc1q`. Not all wallets support taproot addresses at time of writing, but a Taproot address is required to claim the output of an Ordinal-minting transaction (i.e., a special satoshi) and Taproot addresses have certain privacy properties (on-chain obfuscation of multisig scripts, for example) that drive ongoing adoption. + +Note that many forks and variants within the BIP122 design space use different literals to compute addresses, leading to different prefixes and checksum mechanisms on Bitcoin testnet and on other chains in the family of related networks. + +### Validation + +With the exception of the first, all three can be rudimentarily validated with the following regular expression for Bitcoin mainnet: + +`^(bc1|3)[a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Z1-9]{25,34}$` + +Rough validation for other networks can be achieved by updating the prefixes in the first enumeration of literals for the network-specific address-types targeted, and (if needed) updating the minimum and maximum lengths accordingly. + +For more precise validation, it is recommended to first detect the type from the prefix as mentioned above, then compute the type-specific checksum as specified in the corresponding Bitcoin Improvement Proposals linked above (taking into account that networks other than Bitcoin mainnet use different literals, affecting not just the prefixes but also the checksum algorithms). + +### Decorators + +In the Bitcoin development community, certain user experience conventions have arisen that can be opted into by applications and wallets, yet are, strictly speaking, not part of the bitcoin protocol and leave no on-chain artefacts in transaction history. +By analogy to web standards, these are best designated with "fragment identifier" of the sort specified in the [URL standard][RFC-1738] (i.e., a `#parameter` suffix on the URI), which might be meaningful or useful to clients but are not native to the underlying URL protocol and are traditionally omitted when sent over the wire for resolution. + +For example, some wallets segregate Ordinals from regular native-currency balance by receiving them in a dedicated address, to avoid an Ordinal being counted towards spendable balance, or being included unwittingly as an input to a regular (non-Ordinal) transaction. +In this case, the matrix parameter `#ordinal` could be added to communicate to a counterparty that the preceding address has been specifically earmarked for receiving only Ordinal-marked Satoshis and not for general use. +Conversely, Ordinal-aware wallets might mark the other side of this segregation by explicitly marking an address as a `#payment` address. +A client unaware of this convention could, of course, ignore or drop these matrix parameters and treat both as addresses capable of payments, and developers are advised not to assume Ordinals-awareness in a given wallet just because it uses the CAIP-10 standard or a CAIP-10-aware library. ### Backwards Compatibility @@ -33,16 +62,35 @@ CAIP-2 chainId delimited by the at sign (@) #### Legacy example -`128Lkh3S7CkDTBZ8W7BbpsN3YYizJMp8p6@bip122:000000000019d6689c085ae165831e93` +`35PBEaofpUeH8VnnNSorM1QZsadrZoQp4N@bip122:000000000019d6689c085ae165831e93` ## Test Cases -``` -# Bitcoin mainnet -bip122:000000000019d6689c085ae165831e93:128Lkh3S7CkDTBZ8W7BbpsN3YYizJMp8p6 +```bash +# Bitcoin mainnet, P2SH address +bip122:000000000019d6689c085ae165831e93:35PBEaofpUeH8VnnNSorM1QZsadrZoQp4N + +# Bitcoin mainnet, Native SegWit address (P2WPKH) +bip122:000000000019d6689c085ae165831e93:bc1qwz2lhc40s8ty3l5jg3plpve3y3l82x9l42q7fk + +# Bitcoin mainnet, Taproot address with Ordinals decorator +bip122:000000000019d6689c085ae165831e93:bc1pmzfrwwndsqmk5yh69yjr5lfgfg4ev8c0tsc06e#ordinal + +# Bitcoin testnet, Native SegWit address (P2WPKH) +bip122:000000000933ea01ad0ee984209779ba:tb1qrp33g0q5c5txsp9arysrx4k6zdkfs4nce4xj0gdcccefvpysxf3q0sl5k7 + +# Dogecoin mainnet, P2PKH address +bip122:1a91e3dace36e2be3bf030a65679fe82:DBcZSePDaMMduBMLymWHXhkE5ArFEvkagU + +# Dogecoin testnet, P2PKH address +bip122:bb0a78264637406b6360aad926284d54:nXprPppuYCyxrrW6eVh4koUz8kTFrAvGo8 + +# Litecoin mainnet, Native SegWit address (P2WPKH) +bip122:12a765e31ffd4059bada1e25190f6e98:ltc1q8c6fshw2dlwun7ekn9qwf37cu2rn755u9ym7p0 + +# Litecoin testnet, Native SegWit address (P2WPKH) +bip122:4966625a4b2851d9fdee139e56211a0d:tltc1qlustmw64lgd744h45n0t07wxnxw8pmv2sv07r9 -# Litecoin -bip122:12a765e31ffd4059bada1e25190f6e98:128Lkh3S7CkDTBZ8W7BbpsN3YYizJMp8p6 ``` ## References @@ -51,14 +99,19 @@ bip122:12a765e31ffd4059bada1e25190f6e98:128Lkh3S7CkDTBZ8W7BbpsN3YYizJMp8p6 - [BIP21][]: Bitcoin Improvement Proposal specifying `bitcoin` URI scheme - [BIP122][]: Bitcoin Improvement Proposal specifying `blockchain` URI scheme +[base58btc]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-msporny-base58-02 [BIP13]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0013.mediawiki +[BIP16]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0016.mediawiki [BIP21]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0021.mediawiki +[BIP44]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki +[BIP84]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0084.mediawiki [BIP122]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0122.mediawiki -[CAIP-2]: https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs/blob/master/CAIPs/caip-2.md +[BIP141]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki +[BIP173]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawiki +[BIP350]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0350.mediawiki +[bitcoin whitepaper]: https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/training/annual-national-training-seminar/2018/Emerging_Tech_Bitcoin_Crypto.pdf [CAIP-10]: https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs/blob/master/CAIPs/caip-10.md -[CAIP-19]: https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs/blob/master/CAIPs/caip-19.md -[CAIP-21]: https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs/blob/master/CAIPs/caip-21.md -[CAIP-22]: https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs/blob/master/CAIPs/caip-22.md +[RFC-1738]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738 ## Rights