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  BIP: 349
  Layer: Consensus (soft fork)
  Title: OP_INTERNALKEY
  Author: Brandon Black 
          Jeremy Rubin 
  Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0349
  Status: Draft
  Type: Standards Track
  Created: 2024-11-14
  License: BSD-3-Clause

Abstract

This BIP describes a new tapscript opcode (OP_INTERNALKEY) which pushes the taproot internal key to the stack.

Specification

When verifying taproot script path spends having leaf version 0xc0 (as defined in BIP 342), OP_INTERNALKEY replaces OP_SUCCESS203 (0xcb). OP_INTERNALKEY pushes the 32-byte x-only representation of the taproot internal key (referred to as p), as defined in BIP 341, to the stack.

Motivation

Key spend with additional conditions

When building taproot outputs, especially those secured by an aggregate key representing more than one signer, the parties may wish to collaborate on signing with the taproot internal key, but only with additional script restrictions. In this case, OP_INTERNALKEY saves 8 vBytes.

Mitigated control block overhead for scripts using hash locks

In cases where key path spending is not desired, the internal key may be set to a NUMS point whose bytes would otherwise be required in a tapscript. This could be used with any hash locked transaction, for example, to save 8 vBytes.

Note: The internal key must be the X coordinate of a point on the SECP256K1 curve, so any such hash must be checked and modified until it is such an X coordinate. This will typically take approximately 2 attempts.

Reference Implementation

A reference implementation is provided here:

bitcoin/bitcoin#29269

Backward Compatibility

By constraining the behavior of an OP_SUCCESS opcode, deployment of the BIP can be done in a backwards compatible, soft-fork manner. If anyone were to rely on the OP_SUCCESS behavior of OP_SUCCESS203, OP_INTERNALKEY would invalidate their spend.

Deployment

TBD

Credits

TODO

Copyright

This document is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license.