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whitepaper
WYT-pay-per · noun · slang
A project's founding document outlining its tech and goals.
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A technical document that lays out a crypto project's purpose, technology, tokenomics and roadmap. Bitcoin's whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto is the genre's origin.
“The whitepaper is vague on how the token actually accrues value.”
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whitepaper In A Sentence
The whitepaper is vague on how the token actually accrues value.
Origin & Usage
Inherited from technical/business 'white papers'; canonised by Bitcoin's 2008 paper.
People Also Ask
What is a crypto whitepaper?
It is a technical document laying out a project's purpose, technology, tokenomics and roadmap, meant to explain how and why it works.
What is the most famous crypto whitepaper?
Bitcoin's 2008 whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto, which introduced peer-to-peer electronic cash and defined the genre.
Should you read a whitepaper before investing?
Yes, it is a core part of due diligence, though a polished whitepaper alone doesn't guarantee a legitimate or working project.
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