Whitepaper
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
In the context of the cryptocurrency industry, a whitepaper is often published prior towards launching a crypto/blockchain project to explain the issues that the project aims to address as well as the steps it will take towards addressing it.
The foremost whitepaper that kickstarted the tradition of publishing a whitepaper along with lauching a project is the renowned bitcoin whitepaper published in October 2008 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Which succintly explained the need for a peer-to-peer digital cash system and how bitcoin will function in 8 short pages.
Related Terms
Order Book
An electronic list of all buy and sell orders in an exchange
Whitelist
List of approved participants that will be given access to a token sale (ICO, IEO, STO etc...)
Tangle
The name for IOTA's Directed acylic graph (DAG) based transaction settlement layer.
Masternodes
Computers that are responsible for processing blockchain transactions and receive a reward when a block is mined.
Interested to stay up-to-date with cryptocurrencies?
Get the latest crypto news, updates, and reports by subscribing to our free newsletter.
Or check it out in the app stores
Ethereum Mainnet
Base Mainnet
BNB Smart Chain
Arbitrum
Avalanche
Fantom
Flare
Gnosis
Linea
Optimism
Polygon
Polygon zkEVM
Scroll
Stellar
Story
Syscoin
Telos
X Layer
Xai
