Research corpus Institutional ledgerBLC-PAPER-0010

Corda: An Introduction

The introduction argues for a ledger of deals between identified institutions, where the parties to a deal hold the data, rather than a global broadcast of every transaction.

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Authors: Richard Gendal Brown, James Carlyle, Ian Grigg, Mike Hearn
Date: August 2016
Publisher: R3
Version: August 2016 introduction. R3 says the 2018 platform paper supersedes it.
Document ID: BLC-PAPER-0010
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30487.37284
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: ResearchGate marks the upload as possibly subject to copyright. No redistribution licence is recorded.

No hash is published. This build does not store those PDF bytes, so a checksum would be invented. Where a legacy path exists, it points at the Internet Archive copy of the old library.

Direct answer

The introduction argues for a ledger of deals between identified institutions, where the parties to a deal hold the data, rather than a global broadcast of every transaction.

R3's later page says the 2018 paper, The Corda Platform: An Introduction, supersedes this one. The historic library file is the introductory paper. It is not a public cryptocurrency.

Why it is in the corpus

It is the document to cite when a venture says blockchain and means a shared record among known firms.
Privacy in this paper is about who is shown the deal. It is not a zero-knowledge payment design.

Where to read

Official source — ResearchGate record of the August 2016 introduction
Legacy library pathThe old URL stays. It is served from the Internet Archive copy of the previous site.

Read the publisher's record. The legacy path remains. Full text is not republished here.

Full text

Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.

Claims and assumptions

Blockchain Lab's reading of what the document is doing. Not a quotation and not the source text.

State is shared between the parties to an agreement, not with every node.
Identity of the participants is part of the setting. Open membership is not the goal.
The paper presents itself as a high-level introduction. A technical paper was promised beside it.

Assumptions

Participants can be identified and, where needed, held to an agreement off the ledger as well as on it.
A notary, or some uniqueness service, is part of preventing a double spend. The introduction is not the full protocol.

What changed

R3 states that the 2018 platform paper supersedes Corda: An Introduction. Corda as shipped is a later system. The DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.30487.37284 identifies the ResearchGate upload. It does not transfer copyright.

Relationships

Superseded, on R3's account, byThe Corda Platform: An Introduction (2018)
ConceptDistributed ledger
Different architecture fromBitcoin's open broadcast chain
Different from a later paper in this libraryKadena Chainweb, which is not the 2016 private-chain note

Construct with this

A pattern link for people designing a system. It is not a claim that this paper is a product specification, and it is not permission to copy anyone’s code.

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Cite this record

These citations point at the source document. They are not a licence to copy it.

Author–date

Brown, R. G., Carlyle, J., Grigg, I., & Hearn, M. (2016). Corda: An Introduction. R3. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308636477_Corda_An_Introduction

BibTeX

@techreport{corda2016,
  title = {Corda: An Introduction},
  author = {Richard Gendal Brown, James Carlyle, Ian Grigg, Mike Hearn},
  year = {2016},
  institution = {R3},
  url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308636477_Corda_An_Introduction},
  doi = {10.13140/RG.2.2.30487.37284},
  note = {Rights status: Rights uncertain. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/corda}
}

RIS

TY  - RPRT
TI  - Corda: An Introduction
AU  - Richard Gendal Brown
AU  - James Carlyle
AU  - Ian Grigg
AU  - Mike Hearn
PY  - 2016
PB  - R3
UR  - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308636477_Corda_An_Introduction
DO  - 10.13140/RG.2.2.30487.37284
N1  - Rights status: Rights uncertain
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Source status: Published record, and a historic library path
Use status: Read the publisher's record. The legacy path remains. Full text is not republished here.
Rights: Rights uncertain
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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