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 or just yellowpaper.io .
In order to build, use the supplied build script (build.sh). Following the first time, you can use the standard pdflatex tools like http://latex.informatik.uni-halle.de/latex-online/latex.php for compiling/preview. It can be viewed in PDF format after building.
Other language versions
- Chinese translated by YuanGe and GaoTianlu