Readings

EOS White Paper

“EOS.IO Technical White Paper

The EOS.IO software introduces a new blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical and horizontal scaling of decentralized applications. This is achieved by creating an operating system-like construct upon which applications can be built. The software provides accounts, authentication, databases, asynchronous communication and the scheduling of applications across hundreds of CPU cores or clusters. The resulting technology is a blockchain architecture that scales to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees, and allows for quick and easy deployment of decentralized applications.Continue reading→

Distributed Securities Depository on blockchain

Using Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts to Create a Distributed Securities Depository by Eric Wall and Gustaf Malm

“Summarized, this paper aims to:
• Provide an analysis of blockchain technology at its current state of development
• Address the possibilities of leveraging blockchain innovations in the securities market infrastructure
• Address the issues of balancing decentralized blockchain  database structures within the financial industry to conform to regulatory policies
• Outline possible routes of adoption of blockchain technologies in the securities industry while addressing the challenges ahead
• Propose overarching blockchain design choices suitable for a securities depository

Additionally, this paper aims to describe designs for delivery versus payment in different blockchain paradigms.”

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Gnosis (GNO)

Gnosis is an Ethereum based platform designed for wisdom of the crowd applications.

Gnosis layers enable 3rd party applications targetting market predictions and Ethereum oracles.Continue reading→

BRR – CME Bitcoin Reference Rate Methodology

Summary Description

 The CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (“BRR”) is a daily reference rate of the U.S. Dollar price of one bitcoin as of 4:00 p.m. London time. It is representative of the bitcoin trading activity on Constituent Exchanges and is geared towards resilience and replicability.Continue reading→

BRTI – CME Bitcoin Real Time Index Methodology

Summary Description

The CME CF Bitcoin Real Time Index (“BRTI”) is a real time index of the U.S. Dollar price of one bitcoin. It is representative of current bids and offers of market participants to buy or sell bitcoin on Constituent Exchanges. It is geared towards timeliness and represents an unbiased estimator of the instantaneous bitcoin price.Continue reading→

Lumino whitepaper

Lumino Transaction Compression Protocol (LTCP) 

by Sergio Demian Lerner, Chief Scientist RSK Labs

“…The critical insight behind Lumino compression is delta compression of selected fields, from a previous referenced transaction and the aggregate signing of previous transactions, so previous signatures can be disposed. Delta compression is done by allowing each transaction to refer to a previous transaction from the same owner, which is used as a template. Any field can be overridden, and unmodified fields are copied intact.

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zkSNARKs – by Christian Reitwiessner

zkSNARKs in a nutshell

Posted by Christian Reitwiessner

“The possibilities of zkSNARKs are impressive, you can verify the correctness of computations without having to execute them and you will not even learn what was executed – just that it was done correctly. Unfortunately, most explanations of zkSNARKs resort to hand-waving at some point and thus they remain something “magical”, suggesting that only the most enlightened actually understand how and why (and if?) they work. The reality is that zkSNARKs can be reduced to four simple techniques and this blog post aims to explain them. Anyone who can understand how the RSA cryptosystem works, should also get a pretty good understanding of currently employed zkSNARKs. Let’s see if it will achieve its goal!Continue reading→