Blockchain Reimagined

Table Of Content

• Introduction
• Part 1: Clearly understanding blockchains
  • What blockchain systems can do, and how they do it
    • What Is This All About?
    • Blockchain-based Authorities
    • Execution, Ordering, History and State Machines
    • Blocks, Transactions, And Blockchain Systems
    • Blockchain Networks
    • Blockchains Are Overrated
    • Evolution of Blockchain State Machines
    • Further Reading
      • Proof of Work
      • Proof of Stake
  • Properties of blockchain systems
    • Slow
    • Digital
    • Public (mostly)
  • What can be done with blockchain systems (Value Offering)
• Part 2: How to scale a blockchain network
  • What Scaling Blockchains Means
  • Scaling Up - Hyper Optimized Super Chains
  • Scaling Out - Introduction
  • Scaling Out - Pure Multi-chain
  • Scaling Out - Shared Economic Security
  • Scaling Out - Optimistic
  • Scaling Out - SNARKs
• Part 3: Polkadot
  • Polkadot
  • JAM
• Chapter on Bridges
• Chapter on TEEs
• Chapter on FHE, ZK, and MPC
• This Book In 1 Sentence
• This Book In 1 Paragraph
• This Book In 1 Page
• Conclusion, recap, closing thoughts