cardano-transaction-lib

cardano-transaction-lib (CTL) is a Purescript framework for building smart contract transactions on Cardano. It belongs to the the same category of tools as Lucid, Mesh.js, Atlas, Plutus Application Backend (PAB).

Table of Contents

• Documentation
• Additional resources/tools:
• Available support channels
• Funding acknowledgements
• Use in production

Documentation

Please explore our documentation to discover how to use CTL, how to set up its runtime, and how it compares to other tools:

• Super quick start
• Adding CTL as a dependency
• CTL's runtime dependencies
• Blockfrost support
• Getting started writing CTL contracts
• Managing contract environment
• Using CTL from JS
• Importing Plutus Scripts
• Migrating from Plutus Application Backend to CTL
• Overview of testing approaches
  • Testing on local Cardano testnets
  • End-to-end dApp testing with headless browsers
  • Assertion utilities for testing
  • Using a directory with private keys to run tests
• Transaction balancing
• Transaction chaining
• Ada staking support
• Key management
• SECP256k1 support (CIP-49)
• Custom query layers
• Going to production with CTL
• FAQs
• Feature overview video
• Comparison with other frameworks (Lucid)
• Development workflows for CTL

You can also access PureScript documentation for CTL and its dependencies for the most recent develop version, or generate it yourself.

Additional resources/tools:

• cardano-serialization-lib
• Ogmios for chain queries
• Kupo for chain queries
• CIP-30 (wallet interface)
• Alonzo CDDL spec

Available support channels

See SUPPORT.md.

Funding acknowledgements

CTL is being developed by MLabs. The following companies/funds have contributed significant resources (development time or funding):

• IOHK
• Catalyst Fund8
• Catalyst Fund9
• Catalyst Fund10
• Intersect MBO
• MLabs
• Indigo Protocol
• Equine
• Liqwid Labs
• PlayerMint
• Fourier Labs
• Ardana

Use in production

• Indigo Protocol
• Liqwid
• Clarity
• PlayerMint
• SingularityNet