grin/doc/toc.md

Draft

This is a first attempt at a table of content for a more exhaustive technical documentation of Grin (we'd call it a white paper if we had to do an ICO). This should get progressively filled up, until we're ready to advertize it more widely.

• What is Grin?
• Introduction to MimbleWimble
• Cryptographic Primitives
  • Pedersen Commitments
  • Aggregate (Schnorr) Signatures
    • Bulletproofs
• Block and Transaction Format
  • Transaction
    • Input, output
    • Kernel
  • Block
    • Header
    • Body
    • Compact Block
• Chain State and Merkle Mountain Range
  • Motivation
  • Merkle Mountain Range
  • State and Storage
  • Fast Sync
  • Merkle Proofs
• Proof of Work
  • Cuckoo Cycle
  • Difficulty Algorithm
• Wire protocol
  • Seeding and Sync
  • Propagation
  • Low-level Messages
• Dandelion & Aggregation
• Building Transactions
• Important Parameters
  • Fees and Transaction Weight
  • Reward and Block Weight
• Smart Contracts