Community Yellow Paper: A Technical Specification for Neo Blockchain

The Community Yellow Paper base document started as pure LaTeX, as usual in academic publications, however the syntax is not considered as friendly as Markdown. So, why not merge both? :) In order to facilitate the contributions to the document, we decided to adopt pandoc format, which allows hybrid LaTeX + Markdown syntax.

The structure of the document consists of five files:

• yellow_paper.md : main document in Mardown + LaTeX (this file is automatically generated by merge_sections.sh)
• metadata.yaml : document metadata (authors, abstract, ...)
• yellowpaperstyle.pandoc : document style (LaTeX headings)
• template.tex : base LaTeX template (pandoc default LaTeX template with small changes)
• references.bib : bibliography in BibTeX format

Yellow Paper sections are separated on sections/ folder (these are used as source to generate yellow_paper.md file).

Current draft proposal includes 11 sections + references (this may be changed by community, as anything else!):

• 01_Introduction.md : expected release date -> Q2 2019
• 02_Blockchain_Networks.md : expected release date -> Q2+ 2019
• 03_Numbers.md : expected release date -> Q2 2019
• 04_Cryptography.md : expected release date -> Q2 2019
• 05_Assets.md : expected release date -> Q2+ 2019
• 06_Transactions.md : expected release date -> Q2+ 2019
• 07_NeoVM_NeoContract.md : expected release date -> Q2 2019
• 08_dBFT.md : expected release date -> soon!
• 09_SmartEconomy.md : expected release date -> Q2+ 2019
• 10_IoT.md : expected release date -> Q2+ 2019
• 11_Advanced_Contracts.md : expected release date -> Q2+ 2019
• 12_References.md : expected release date -> Q2+ 2019

Install pandoc and LaTeX base. On debian-based linux, you can simply run make install, and all dependencies will be installed.

After pandoc and LaTeX base are available, you can simply run make, which will generate the yellow paper pdf.

Any section can be build using command make section and passing SECTION parameter. For example: make section SECTION=08_dBFT will build section 08.

The easiest way to build is by using docker.

• Build the docker image using docker_build.sh

• Compile the yellow paper using docker_run.sh

• Output will be generated as build/yellow_paper.pdf

If you know Neo technology and want to contribute, feel free to directly submit a Pull Request with the desired changes. Initially, the idea is to create a broad and complete initial version of the document, which will be polished in the future.

This repository is currently MIT Licensed (for text and code), and Free Culture license Creative Commons 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) for all figures and externally copyrighted material.

Please, when contributing, be careful to only add figures covered by Creative Commons licenses, and give proper references to original sources. When adding new original material to this project, contributor agrees that it will be covered by Free Culture license Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.

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