pharpend/protocol

Specification of the æternity blockchain protocol

æternity protocol

This document defines the æternity protocol. It replaces the outdated whitepaper from 2017.

Disclaimer

Any specification living in here is to be understood as a work in progress until the feature freeze for the mainnet launch. After the feature freeze amendments or changes to these specifications should only be done via the governance mechanisms.

Security

• Threat Model

Whitepapers

• 2017 Whitepaper - The original whitepaper.
  • https://github.com/aeternity/whitepaper
• 2020 Whitepaper - Draft that reflects the current state.
  • https://github.com/aeternity/white-paper