chip-cashflow-contracts

CHIP Draft: CashFlow Contracts

This repository hosts the draft and reference materials for a proposed Cash Improvement Proposal (CHIP) introducing native programmable payment flows on Bitcoin Cash.

Status: Draft
Author: linuxwhr
Date: July 2025

Summary

CashFlow Contracts are a scripting pattern on BCH to enable programmable recurring, milestone, and conditional payments using native opcodes such as OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY, OP_CHECKDATASIG, and standard multisig.

Contents

• chip-XXXX-cashflow-contracts.md: The CHIP document
• examples/: CashScript and Script examples
• diagrams/: Visual documentation
• metadata-schema/: Suggested OP_RETURN schema for non-consensus metadata

Goals

• Enable contract-based financial flows
• No consensus changes
• Tooling for wallets and developers

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