{"id":294,"date":"2022-09-12T22:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ackeeblockchain.com\/blog\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=294"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:25:19","slug":"whitepaper","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/ackee.xyz\/blog\/glossary\/whitepaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitepaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>whitepaper<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a technical and detailed document released by developers that explains the project they are working on and its purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We often have to go through various whitepapers to get a better understanding of the complex protocols we <a href=\"https:\/\/ackeeblockchain.com\/blog\/glossary\/audit\/\">audit<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some examples of whitepapers are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoin.org\/bitcoin.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitcoin Whitepaper<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ethereum.org\/en\/whitepaper\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethereum Whitepaper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/layerzero.network\/pdf\/LayerZero_Whitepaper_Release.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LayerZero Whitepaper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/polygon.technology\/papers\/pol-whitepaper\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Polygon Lightpaper<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whitepaper is a technical and detailed document released by developers that explains the project they are working on and its purpose. We often have to go through various whitepapers to get a better understanding of the complex protocols we audit. Some examples of whitepapers are:\u00a0 Bitcoin Whitepaper Ethereum Whitepaper\u00a0 LayerZero Whitepaper\u00a0 Polygon Lightpaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[],"class_list":["post-294","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackee.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackee.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackee.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ackee.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ackee.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackee.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ackee.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}