Formal ledger specifications

This repository contains the formal ledger specifications that are intended to eventually replace the existing formal specifications of the Cardano ledger found here. This project is currently incomplete and work in progress.

This repository currently contains two specifications---the work in progress specification for Cardano (up to and including the Conway era) and a small example that was produced for the Midnight project (but is unrelated to any actual Midnight code/features). Each specification is executable and contains some documentation in the form of a PDF document. They can be built by following the steps below.

Formal Specification	HTML Version	Haskell Tests
Cardano Ledger	Ledger.PDF	UTXOW test
Midnight Example	MidnightExample.PDF	LEDGER test

Note: the HTML versions of the specifications are interactive, but many modules currently contain LaTeX code which is used to generate the PDF. We intend to fix this eventually.

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Build and Test the Formal Spec

Clone this repository and enter its directory

git clone https://github.com/IntersectMBO/formal-ledger-specifications.git
cd formal-ledger-specifications

Build the spec using nix-build

Invoke the following nix-build commands from inside the formal-ledger-specifications directory.

nix-build -A ledger.docs      # generate the PDF spec of the Cardano ledger
nix-build -A midnight.docs    # generate the PDF spec of the Midnight example
nix-build -A ledger.hsSrc     # extract the Haskell code of the Cardano ledger
nix-build -A midnight.hsSrc   # extract the Haskell code of the Midnight example

Test the spec using nix-shell

The hsExe is a cabal package, which can be loaded into GHCI like this:

nix-shell -A run --command "cabal repl --build-depends 'cardano-ledger'"
λ> :m Lib
λ> :i UTxOState

Building the hsExe derivation will also run the test suite, which you can manually do using cabal test.

Contributions and Feedback

If you would like more detailed information and/or you want to contribute to the Agda formalization of the spec, please see the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Please submit a new issue if you find problems with, and/or wish to comment on, this repository.