60 articles exploring cryptocurrency whitepapers — deep dives, origin stories, and technical explainers.
An in-depth analysis of Satoshi Nakamoto's original 2008 whitepaper, breaking down every section from the abstract to the probability calculations.
BTC
How Vitalik Buterin reimagined blockchain as a universal computation platform, introducing smart contracts, the EVM, and a Turing-complete scripting …
ETH
Exploring Anatoly Yakovenko's novel clock mechanism that lets Solana achieve sub-second finality and process tens of thousands of transactions per se…
SOL
A comprehensive look at Chainlink's expanded vision for DONs: hybrid smart contracts, FSS, super-linear staking, and the trust-minimization framework.
LINK
Understanding Aave's lending pool design, aTokens, flash loans, and the interest rate model that powers one of DeFi's largest protocols.
AAVE
How Filecoin creates verifiable storage markets using Proofs of Replication and Spacetime, with Expected Consensus weighted by stored data.
FIL
Dissecting Cardano's peer-reviewed approach to proof-of-stake, UTXO accounting, and the separation of settlement and computation layers.
ADA
Gavin Wood's vision for a multi-chain framework where parachains share security through the relay chain and communicate via XCMP.
DOT
How Tendermint consensus and the Hub-and-Zones architecture enable sovereign blockchains to interoperate via the Inter-Blockchain Communication proto…
ATOM
How the Snow family of consensus protocols achieves probabilistic finality in under a second through repeated random sampling of the network.
AVAX
Breaking down Polygon's transition from MATIC to POL, validator emissions, treasury mechanics, and the multi-chain scaling roadmap.
POL
A technical walkthrough of Uniswap's x*y=k formula, price oracles, flash swaps, and the elegant simplicity behind decentralized token exchange.
UNI
How NEAR's Nightshade sharding design splits state and processing while maintaining a single logical chain, enabling massive horizontal scaling.
NEAR
How Aptos achieves parallel transaction execution with Block-STM, and why the Move programming language's resource model prevents common smart contra…
APT
Silvio Micali's approach to achieving consensus without forks: VRF-based committee selection, BA⋆ agreement, and instant finality.
ALGO
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