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Nervos CKB: a cell model generalisation of the UTXO

Nervos CKB generalises Bitcoin's UTXO into a cell: a piece of state with capacity, a lock script, and a type script. The chain verifies the scripts. It does not embed one global virtual machine as the only rule.

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Authors: Nervos
Date: 2019
Publisher: Nervos
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0694
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — CKB RFC 0002
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Author–date

Nervos (2019). Nervos CKB: a cell model generalisation of the UTXO. Nervos. https://github.com/nervosnetwork/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0002-ckb/0002-ckb.md

BibTeX

@techreport{nervosckb2019,
  title = {Nervos CKB: a cell model generalisation of the UTXO},
  author = {Nervos},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Nervos},
  url = {https://github.com/nervosnetwork/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0002-ckb/0002-ckb.md},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/nervos-ckb}
}

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PY  - 2019
PB  - Nervos
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N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
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