Some basic popularization videos include Shai Rubin, What is blockchain; P. Borah, Tourist guide to future; V. Buterin, Ethereum in 25 minutes; CuriousInventor, How bitcoin works in 5 minutes; (elementary) Blockchain expert explains one concept in 5 levels of difficulty youtube; Steve Lund, The convergence of blockchain, machine learning, and the cloud, youtube
Berkeley course Blockchain fundamentals (videos) fall 2018 lec1, lec2, lec3, lec4, lec5, lec6, lec7, lec8, lec9, lec10, lec11, lec12; fall17 lec10, spring18 lec10, spring18 lec11
Berkeley course Blockchain for developers (Spring 2018) yt list
A foundational/mathematical introductory book from the point of view of (building) a distributed computing system is
A survey of basic mathematical estimates of mining incentives is
A comprehensive guide for architects of blockchain applications with an attempt at certain level of abstraction of central concepts is
The largest consortia in the industry include R3, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Hyperledger.
Technically accurate comprehensive introduction to Ethereum blockchain is
A. Miller, Yu Xia, et al., The honey badger of BFT protocols, Cryptology e-print archive 2016/99, pdf 2016.
M. Castro, B. Liskov, et al., Practical byzantine fault tolerance, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (1999) 173–186 pdf
L. Lamport, R. Shostak, M. Pease, The byzantine generals problem, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 4/3 (1982), p. 382–401.
C. Dwork, N. Lynch, L. Stockmeier, Consensus in the presence of partial synchrony Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery 35:2 (1988) 288-323 pdf
David Schwartz, Noah Youngs, Arthur Britto, The Ripple Protocol Consensus Algorithm, Ripple Labs Inc. 2014 pdf
Leemon Baird, The Swirlds hashgraph consensus algorithm: fair, fast, byzantine fault tolerance, pdf (May 2016); Hashgraph consensus: detailed examples pdf; Overview of Swirlds Hashgraph: An Introduction To The Hashgraph (SDK Available Now) online
Hedera Hashgraph whitepaper pdf; intro to whitepaper web; company homepage
Ittay Eyal, Emin Gün Sirer, Majority is not enough: Bitcoin mining is vulnerable, in: Financial Cryptography and Data Security 436–454, Springer 2014 pdf
A. Sapirshtein, Y. Sompolinsky, A. Zohar, Optimal selfish mining strategies in bitcoin, arxiv/1507.06183
V. Buterin, Blockchain and Ethereum security on the higher level, youtube 1:21h
Zhu et al. Research on the security of blockchain data: A survey, arxiv/1812.02009
C. Natoli, V. Gramoli, The balance attack against proof-of-work blockchains: the R3 testbed as an example, arxiv/1612.09426
ARPA whitepaper (secure computation solution for blockchain networks) arxiv/1812.05820
post-quantum cryptography nist.gov (in general)
Postquantum cryptography and blockchain
Hyperledger Fabric grew out as a permissioned version of Ethereum.
J. Wahab, G. Danezis, Privacy in blockchain systems arxiv/1809.10642
Bank of England 2018 Fintech proof of concept paper Chain pdf on exploring how distributed ledgers can be configured to enable privacy amongst participants whilst keeping data shared across a network
A. Kosba et al. Hawk: the blockchain model of cryptography and privacy-preserving smart contracts, 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 839–858 doi
K. Singh et al. Towards anonymous, unlinkable, and confidential transactions in blockchain (Cybermatics 2018)
A. Unterweger et al. Lessons learned from implementing a privacy-preserving smart contract in Ethereum”. 2018 9th IFIP Intern. Conf. on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) Feb. 2018, pp. 1–5 doi
M. Bowman et al. (Hyperledger Project) Private Data Objects: an Overview arxiv/1807.05686
Michèle Finck, Blockchains and data protection in the European Union, European Data Protection Law Review 4:1 (2018) 17–35 pdf
Guy Zyskind et al. Enigma: decentralized computation platform with guaranteed privacy, pdf enigma.co
C Roulin et al. On the activity privacy of blockchain for IoT arxiv/1812.08970
Christopher D. Clack, Nicolas T. Courtois, Distributed ledger privacy: ring signatures, Möbius and CryptoNote arxiv/1902.02609
Traditional research on encrypted compilation and program execution (as well as multithreading of decrypted pieces) may be relevant. See e.g.
C, Fletcher et al. Compilation techniques for efficient encrypted computation, 2012 pdf
I. Gerhardt, T. Hanke, Homomorphic payment addresses and the pay-to-contractprotocol arxiv/1212.3257
B. Curran, What are bulletproofs? Guide to confidential cryptocurrency transactions blockonomi
(see also under Privacy and blockchain above and blockchain regulation)
Some standardization issues are considered in
Vitalik Buterin (for R3), Chain interoperability Sep 2016 pdf
Tier Nolan, Re: Alt chains and atomic transfers, 2013, bitcointalk discussion post
Aggelos Kiayias, Andrew Miller, Dionysis Zindros, Non-Interactive Proofs of Proof-of-Work, IACR preprint 2017 pdf (see also here and Cardano, IOHK)
Gavin Wood, PolkaDot: vision for a heterogeneous multi-chain framework pdf
substrate at parity.io
substrate in this wiki
G. Wood, Substrate: A Rustic Vision for Polkadot at Web3 Summit 2018, youtube
blog Why write smart contracts in rust, Towards a brighter future for smart contracts
Cosmos Workshop (Berkeley 2019) yt
tendermint consensus protocol (interblockchain apps, to appear with Ethermint); documentation
Matthew Black, TingWei Liu, Tony Cai, Atomic loans: cryptocurrency debt instruments arxiv/1901.05117
A. Back et al. Enabling blockchain innovations with pegged sidechains pdf
(Ripple) Interledger whitepaper pdf; interledger.org
Krzysztof Okupski, Bitcoin developer reference, Working Paper, Last changes 30th July 2016 pdf
ibm-research 5 in 5, 2018
Petar Maymounkov, PDavid Mazieres, Kademlia: A peer-to-peer information system based on the xor metric, in Peer-to-Peer Systems 53-65, Springer 2002
MVC-CAP blockchain revolution in banking, whitepaper pdf
Provenance, Blockchain: the solution for transparency in product supply chains whitepaper 2015
Tolar hashnet whitepaper pdf
Microsoft Azure CoCo project of common runtime for plurality of ledgers: whitepaper 2017 at github pdf, announcement; presentation on Medium
Tezos (uses OCaml for smart contracts) home, whitepaper pdf, position paper pdf, stackexhange, github, developer docs
Victor Allombert, Mathias Bourgoin, Julien Tesson, Introduction to the Tezos blockchain, arxiv/1909.08458
Kroll et al. The economics of Bitcoin mining, or Bitcoin in the presence of adversaries, 2013 pdf
Geneva report 2018
S. Shah et al. Unlocking economic advantages of blockchain, a guide for asset managers, 2018 report for Oliver Wyman and J P Morgan pdf news coverage
Distributed ledger technology in payments, clearing, and settlement (FED/DLT report 2016) pdf
uinta 3rd wave of financial intermediation
M. Rauchs et al. (Cambridge centre for alternative finance) Distributed ledger technology systems, a conceptual framework, 103 pp. Aug 2018 pdf
Emmanuelle Ganne, Can blockchain revolutionize international trade?, WTO report 2018, 163 pages, pdf
Bank of Canada, Project Jasper: Are distributed wholesale payment systems feasible yet? pdf 2017
Monetary Authority of Singapore, Project Ubin pdf
T. M. Griffoli et al. Casting light on central bank digital currencies, 39 pp., Int. Mon. Fond, Staff Discussion Notes 18/2008 link
Financial Stability Board, Crypto-asset markets: Potential channels for future financial stability implications, 21 pp. Oct 2018 link pdf
E. Mcguigan et al. Carrying the communication industry forward, Creating business value with blockchain, Accenture report 2018 pdf
Deloitte report, Blockchain at TelCo, 2016 pdf
Arnold Verbeek, Maria Lundqvist, Artificial intelligence, blockchain and the future of Europe, How disruptive technologies create opportunities for a green and digital economy, Report for European Investment Bank, June 2020 pdf
Blockchain is much about avoiding intermediaries. However, it is important to understand that the financial intermediation has its reasons, as known from classical theory
This work is heavily referred to in the early blockchain finance study
Stephanie Lo, J. Christina Wang, Bitcoin as money, Federal reserve bank of Boston, Current policy perspectives 14-04 pdf
BigchainDB2.0 whitepaper pdf; Ocean protocol (decentralized big data sharing and AI) tech-whitepaper pdf
Tara Vancil, How Merkle trees enable the decentralized web! youtube
Serguei Popov, The tangle pdf, 2016.
corda open source distributed ledger written in cotlin, and developed by R3; documentation
Mike Hearn, Corda – a distributed ledger (technical whitepaper, 2016) pdf; Brown et al. Corda - an introduction, whitepaper 2016, pdf; Brown, Corda - an introduction platform whitepaper 2018 pdf
Telegram (see FAQ and wikipedia) is developing Telegram Open Network(TON) centered around a new generation blockchain project. See the original
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