What is Kaspa Silverscript? @kaspaunchained recently announced that the Silverscript v1 release candidate is live ahead of the mainnet launch. But what is it? Simply put, Silverscript is Kaspa's first high-level smart contract language and compiler; With Silverscript, developers can write clear covenant contracts that compile straight to native Kaspa Script, without a virtual machine, a second execution context, or global account state. - Silverscript aims at making the covenant primitives introduced after Toccata in Kaspa usable and readable. - Developers can write their covenants using a CashScript-like language and compile their contracts to a locking script, ABI, and covenant plumbing code. Language features Kaspa Silverscript features the following lines of code; - Loops and arrays - Function calls and helper functions - explicit types, structs, and typed literals - transaction introspection - signature checks, hashtags, and verification built-ins - covenant declarations that generate transition wrappers What can developers create with Silverscript? 1.) Escrow and milestone payments 2.) Recurring or streaming payments 3.) Vesting and dead-man’s-switch custody 4.) Native fungible assets (KCC20-style conventions) 5.) Atomic swaps 6.) Simple stateful objects such as counters 7.) ZK-aware checks that call the on-chain Groth16 / RISC Zero precompil If v1 works, Kaspa will have an authorship pathway for L1 covenants that doesn't add a second runtime for audits. This is less than “Solidity on Kaspa,” but it is the point. Silverscript is a platform for vaults, assets, and local state contracts and the foundational layer for the future shared state.