Recommended Reading

On this page we list resources on relevant background.

🔀 Distributed Ledger Technology

• Nano - Whitepaper
• Byteball - Whitepaper
• IOTA - Whitepaper
• Cosmos
• Fantom
• HoneyBadger ACS - Whitepaper

See also the page on comparisons/discussions of other projects.

Protocols and algorithms

• CHECKO - Horizontally Scalable Consensus
• GURU - Improvements on traditional byzantine fault tolerance - Paper
• Snowflake to Avalanche - Slush/Avalanche consensus - Paper

Textbooks

• Distributed algorithms
• Distributed computing through Combinatorial Topology

👾 More Computer Science

Large Scale Data Processing

• Pregel
• Gather Apply Scatter
• Spark - Getting started with MapReduce
• MapReduce - Google paper

Machine Learning

• awesome-machine-learning - General references

📚 More math

Probability and Discrete dynamical systems

• Markov Chains - Web article with animations.
• Markov Partitioning - paper/notes (4 pages)
• Topological Invariance and Relative Entropy - Abstract perspectives on the probabilistic concept (nForum)

Algebraic topology for protocols

• Blockchain cohomology - Constellation paper (arXiv)

Graph theory

• Graph Laplacians - Slides