ethereum/yellowpaper

Name: yellowpaper

Owner: ethereum

Description: The "Yellow Paper": Ethereum's formal specification

Created: 2014-04-02 04:09:12.0

Updated: 2018-01-17 20:01:00.0

Pushed: 2018-01-17 16:32:50.0

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Language: TeX

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Ethereum Yellow Paper

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Gitter

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 a free culture work, licensed under 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.

clone https://github.com/ethereum/yellowpaper.git
ellowpaper
ild.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.

Tips on editing

You can use TeX Stack Exchange; https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/ (e.g. Bibliography Management and Hyperlinks); and BibTeX editor.

Versions

The previous protocol versions are listed in BRANCHES.md.

Other language versions

This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number U24TR002306. This work is solely the responsibility of the creators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.