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  • CRYPTOGRAPHY
  • Bitcoin's Origins
  • Attacks
  • Fundamentals
  • Zero Knowledge
  • Homomorphic Encryption
  • Data Availability and Erasure Coding
  • Network Layer
  • Atomic Swaps
  • ECONOMICS & GOVERNANCE
  • Proof of Work (PoW)
  • Electricity Usage for Proof of Work
  • Proof of Stake (PoS)
  • Cryptoeconomics
  • Mechanism Design
  • Blockchain Oracles
  • Fault Attribution
  • Permissionless Governance
  • Monetary Policy
  • PRIVACY
  • SCALING
  • Sharding
  • State Channels
  • Sidechains
  • Tendermint
  • Plasma
  • Truebit
  • Token Engineering
  • Token Sale Models
  • Token Design
  • Token Bonding Curves
  • Token Curated Registries (TCRs)
  • Stablecoins
  • EDUCATION
  • Macro Trends for the Space

Library

This page provides students with useful resources to read and learn about specific blockchain concepts. The library's diversity highlights the multidisciplinary nature of blockchain technology.

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CRYPTOGRAPHY

Bitcoin's Origins

-- Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark

-- Adam Back

-- Eric Hughes

Attacks

-- Bitcoin StackExchange

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Paper by Loi Luu,..

-- Library documenting relevant cryptography attack vectors

Fundamentals

-- Consensys on Medium

Zero Knowledge

Homomorphic Encryption

Data Availability and Erasure Coding

Network Layer

Atomic Swaps

ECONOMICS & GOVERNANCE

Proof of Work (PoW)

Electricity Usage for Proof of Work

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Cryptoeconomics

Mechanism Design

Blockchain Oracles

Fault Attribution

Permissionless Governance

Monetary Policy

PRIVACY

SCALING

Sharding

State Channels

Sidechains

Tendermint

Plasma

Truebit

Token Engineering

Token Sale Models

Token Design

Token Bonding Curves

Token Curated Registries (TCRs)

Stablecoins

EDUCATION

Macro Trends for the Space

-- Stack Exchange explanation

-- Quora

-- Vitalik Buterin on Medium

-- Christian Reitweßner

-- Blog Post by Matthew Green

-- Ethereum Foundation

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

(github)

(paper)

(Paper)

(Paper)

-- Jason Wong Medium Post

-- Satoshi Nakamoto

-- Vitalik Buterin

-- Gavin Wood

-- Least Authority

-- Blog Post Estimate (8/26/18)

-- LaurentMT medium post

-- Ethereum StackExchange explanation

-- Presentation by Jon Choi

-- Vitalik Buterin blog post

-- Casper's incentivization philosophy

-- Talk at Cryptoeconomicon

-- Talk by Vlad Zamfir

-- Vlad Zamfir

-- Jon Choi

-- Vitalik Buterin blog post

-- Ethereum wiki

-- Vitalik Buterin blog post

-- Vitalik Buterin blog post

-- Bentov, Gabizon, Mizrahi Paper

-- Ethereum blog

-- Vitalik Buterin Medium Post

(Github)

-- Yoichi Blog Post

-- Vitalik Buterin Talk

-- Vlad Zamfir Talk

-- Github

-- Vitalik's Blog

-- Vlad Zamfir

-- Josh Stark

-- Blockchannel

-- Karl Floersch Talk at Devcon 3

-- David Hoffman Medium Post

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Vitalik Buterin Talk in Malta

-- Aeternity Medium Post

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Vitalik Buterin on Medium

-- Vitalik Buterin

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Vitalik Buterin blog post

(article); by Nick Szabo

-- Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum's Blog

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Melik Manukyan

-- Vlad Zamfir

-- Hsiao-Wei Wang on Medium

-- Vlad Zamfir

-- Jeff Coleman

-- Josh Stark

-- Michael Nolivos Medium Post

-- many good authors

(Paper)

-- Jae Kwon

(Paper) and

-- Joseph Poon and Vitalik Buterin

-- Anthony Akentiev

-- Sina Habibian

-- Jason Teusch and Christian Reitweßner

-- Dutch Auction Application for Gnosis ('no-sis')

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Augur Report

-- Gnosis Blog Post

-- Vitalik Blog Post

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Justin Goro Medium Post

-- Paul Haas Medium Post

-- Matt Lockyer Medium Post

-- Trent McConaghy Medium Post

-- talk at Cryptoeconomicon

-- Vitalik Buterin Blog Post

-- Dai github explainer

-- Qiao Wang

-- Research by Robert Sams on seignorage shares

by Karl Floersche

by Decrypto

-- Matt Lockyer

-- Matt Lockyer

Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
Hashcash: A Denial-of-Service Counter-Measure
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
51% attack explanation
Cost of 51% attack
The P+ Epsilon Attack
Long-Range Attacks
Demystifying Incentives in the Consensus Computer
Crypton
Basics of Hash Functions
Public Key Cryptography
How does a Merkle Tree work?
ZK-Snarks Under the Hood
Early Article on ZK-Starks
zkSNARKs in a Nutshell
Very Casual Introduction to FHE
Comprehensive Review of Data Availability Problem
Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding
Whisper: Communication Protocol for Dapps
Anonymous Connections and Onion Routing
Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity
bloXroute: A Scalable Trustless Blockchain Distribution Network
Atomic On-Chain ETH to Off-Chain BTC Swap
Bitcoin Whitepaper
Ethereum Whitepaper
Ethereum Yellow Paper
Ethereum Security Audit
Electricity consumed by major blockchains
Gravity I
Nothing-At-Stake Problem
Cryptoeconomics in Casper
A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy
The Triangle of Harm
Proof of Stake
Proof of Stake with Casper
The History of Casper
Ethereum Casper 101
On Stake
Proof of Stake FAQ
Light Clients and Proof of Stake
Weak Subjectivity
Cryptocurrencies without Proof of Work
Slasher, Ghost, and Other Developments in Proof of Stake
Safety under Dynamic Validator Sets
Validator Shuffling Algorithm for Ethereum
Formal methods on another Casper
Introduction to Cryptoeconomics
What is Cryptoeconomics?
Ethereum Design Rationale
Griefing Factors
State of Cryptoeconomics
Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics
Basic Fundamentals of Cryptoeconomics
Intro to Cryptoeconomics
Incentive Loops
Wikipedia for Mechanism Design
On Anti-Pre-Revelation Games
Blockchain and Smart Contract Mechanism Design
Blockchain Oracles
The Problem of Censorship
Minimal Slashing Conditions
Shapley Value Wiki
An Intro to Futarchy
Tezos Whitepaper: A Self-Amending Ledger
Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion
Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
On Inflation, Transaction Fees and Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy
Cantillon Effect: Central Banks increase Inequality
tweet
Privacy on the Blockchain
Layer 1 vs. Layer 2 innovation on Ethereum
Lightning Analogy to TCP/IP stack
Ethereum Sharding Doc
Ethereum Sharding: Overview and Finality
Sharding AMA
State Channels Explanation
Layer 2 Scaling Overview
Network Effects in Generalized State Channels
Blockstream: Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains
Cosmos -- A Network of Distributed Ledgers
Original Paper
how to reduce distributed algorithms expressed as asynchronous code down to an equivalent asynchronous round representation
Tweet
Paper
Plasma in 10 Minutes
The Marketplace for Verifiable Computation
Paper
Gnosis Token Launch
Analysis of Token Sale Models
Vickrey Auction Wiki
Long-Term Cryptocurrency Distribution Models
Handshake Name Service Paper
How Does REP Work
Introducing the Gnosis Tokens (GNO)
Applications of Security Deposits and Prediction Markets
SchellingCoin
Bonding Curves Explained
Token Bonding Curves in Practice
Token Curated Registry (TCR) Design Patterns
The Layered TCR
Stablecoins
The Search for a Stable Cryptocurrency
The Dai Stablecoin System
Hayek and Stablecoins
Arc Primer and Explainer
Cryptocurrency Stabilization
Cryptoeconomics.study
A16z Crypto Cannon
Tari Labs University Github
Blockchain Research Papers
Adoption of Public Blockchains
Education in Blockchain