60 articles exploring cryptocurrency whitepapers — deep dives, origin stories, and technical explainers.
The story behind the pseudonymous creator who published a 9-page paper on a cryptography mailing list and launched a trillion-dollar revolution.
BTC
How a 19-year-old Bitcoin journalist conceived a blockchain that could run arbitrary programs, assembled a founding team, and launched via one of cry…
ETH
The unconventional story of XRP — from Ryan Fugger's original Ripplepay to the Schwartz-McCaleb-Britto consensus protocol that bypasses mining entire…
XRP
How Qualcomm engineer Anatoly Yakovenko realized that a verifiable clock could eliminate the communication overhead that limits blockchain throughput.
SOL
The unlikely story of Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer creating a meme cryptocurrency in two hours — and its journey from satire to mainstream adoptio…
DOGE
From Realcoin to USDT: how Tether created the dollar-pegged token that became crypto's de facto reserve currency, and the controversies that followed.
USDT
How an anonymous whitepaper by 'Nicolas van Saberhagen' led to a community fork that created the gold standard of privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies.
XMR
How Sergey Nazarov identified the critical gap between blockchains and real-world data, and built the most widely adopted oracle network in crypto.
LINK
How a Google engineer created a Bitcoin fork with faster blocks and Scrypt mining, establishing the template for thousands of altcoins that followed.
LTC
The origin of Tendermint consensus and the Cosmos Hub — from academic BFT research to a practical framework for building interoperable blockchains.
ATOM
From co-founding Mt. Gox and Ripple to creating Stellar — how McCaleb's focus shifted from trading to financial inclusion for the developing world.
XLM
The story of Changpeng Zhao launching BNB as a utility token and evolving it into a dual-chain ecosystem rivaling Ethereum's smart contract platform.
BNB