Reference: Caliskan, K. and Birbil, S.I. (2020). White papers of top 100 Cryptocurrencies and their Blockchains. GitHub Repository https://github.com/sibirbil/DataMoney
These data present all text content of the white papers of most valuable 100 cryptocurrencies as of 1 June 2018, except those of the Digibyte, Dogecoin, GAS, Huobi Token and Monacoin, cryptocurrencies that were offered without a white paper. The white papers are gathered form the websites of the following cryptocurrencies: Aelf, Aeternity, Aion, Allsports, Ardor, Ark, Augur, Bancor, Basic Attention Token, Binance Coin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Private, Bitcoin, Bitshares, Bytecoin, Bytom, Cardano, Centrality, Cortex, Cryptonex, Cybermiles, Dash, Decred, Dentacoin, Digibyte, DigixDAO, Dogecoin, Dragonchain, Elastos, Electroneum, Enigma, EOS, Ethereum Classic, Ethereum, Ethos, Funfair, Fusion, GAS, Golem, Gxchain, Huobi Token, Hypercash, ICON, Internet of Services, Kin, Komodo, Kucoin Shares, Kybernetwork, Lisk, Litecoin, Loom Network, Loopring, MaidSafeCoin, Maker, Mıota, Mithril, Mixin, MOAC, Monacoin, Monero, Nano, Nebulas, Nem, NEO, Nexusi, Nuls, OmiseGo, Ontology, 0x, PIVX, Polymath, Populous, Qash, Qtum, Rchain, Reddcoin, SiaCoin, Skycoin, Status, Steem, Stellar, Stratis, Substratum, Syscoin, Tether, Theta Token, Tron, Vechain, Verge, Veritaseum, Waltonchain, Wanchain, Waves, Waykichain, XRP, Zcash, Zcoin, Zilliqa.
An analysis in part drawing on these papers can be found in
We would like to thank Sevde Ünal, Collin Mcclain and Hasine Güler for research assistance and data preparation.
If you run the accompanying R code, you will produce the two figures that are also used in the paper:
