what is whitepaper?

a document in which a project explains what it is building, how it works and how its token is meant to work.

the bitcoin paper (2008) was nine pages about a technical mechanism. many modern whitepapers are partly marketing: the paper is a claim, and the blockchain shows what actually happened.

related words

verified contract a contract whose source code is published on the block explorer and matches what is actually deployed.
tokenomics how a token's supply is created, shared out and released over time, and what the token is used for.
upgradeable contract (proxy) a setup where a contract's code can be replaced while its address and balances stay the same.

part of the topic whitepapers: free articles, more words and the guide.

checked 2026-10-20. education, not advice. found a mistake? see corrections.