Research Papers

Repository for my notes on various Research/White/Yellow Papers mostly in Blockchain domain.

Reading/Watch List

• Blockchain

  • How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document by Stuart Haber & W. Scott Stornetta

• Bitcoin & Proof of Work (PoW):

  • Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto

• EVM

  • Ethereum A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger by Dr. Gavin Wood
  • Ethereum Execution Layer Specification (successor to the Yellow Paper) by Ethereum Engineering Group

• Proof of Stake (PoS):

  • Peercoin: Secure & Sustainable Cryptocoin by Sunny King and Scott Nadal
  • Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol by Aggelos Kiayias, et al.

• Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS):

  • Delegated Proof-of-Stake Consensus by Daniel Larimer

• Proof of Authority (PoA):

  • Clique: Consensus for a Permissioned Network by Ethereum

• Proof of Space (PoSpace) / Proof of Capacity (PoC):

  • Proofs of Space: When Space is of the Essence by Sunoo Park, et al.
  • Avalanche: A Novel Metastable Consensus Protocol Family for Cryptocurrencies by Team Rocket et al.

• Byzantine Fault Tolerance

  • Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT):

    • Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance by Miguel Castro and Barbara Liskov

  • HoneyBadgerBFT:

    • The HoneyBadger of BFT Protocols by Andrew Miller, et al.

  • Tendermint:

    • Tendermint: Byzantine Fault Tolerance in the Age of Blockchains by Jae Kwon

• Raft:

  • In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Extended Version) by Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout

• Subspace

  • Subspace: A Solution to the Farmer’s Dilemma by Jeremiah Wagstaff

• Paradigm and Blur

  • Blend: Perpetual Lending With NFT Collateral by Galaga, Pacman, Toad, Dan Robinson, Transmissions11

• Boson Protocol: Web3 Commerce Layer

  • Boson Protocol v2 Whitepaper