Ethereum Yellow Paper
The Yellow Paper is a formal definition of the Ethereum protocol, originally by Gavin Wood, currently maintained by Nick Savers and with contributions from many people around the world.
It is free culture work, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA) version 4.0.
Usage
The paper comes as a single latex file Paper.tex. The latest version is generally available as a PDF at https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf. If you find that the borders for links block too much text when viewing the PDF in the browser, you can instead download it and open and view it with a PDF viewer application such as Adobe Acrobat or Evince, where the borders are less likely to display over text.
How to build
The paper also comes as a single latex file Paper.tex, which is built as a PDF as follows.
git clone https://github.com/ethereum/yellowpaper.git
cd yellowpaper
./build.sh
This will create a PDF version of the Yellow Paper. Following building, you can also use standard pdflatex tools like http://latex.informatik.uni-halle.de/latex-online/latex.php for compiling/preview.
The previous protocol versions are listed in BRANCHES.md.
Other language versions
- Chinese translated by YuanGe and GaoTianlu