Research corpus ConsensusBLC-STUDY-0024

EOS.IO Technical White Paper

The 2018 technical paper for EOSIO: delegated proof of stake, named block producers, and an operating-system metaphor for accounts, permissions and resource allocation. It is a design document. It is not a description of later governance fights around any one chain that used the software.

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Authors: Daniel Larimer and block.one
Date: 2018
Publisher: Daniel Larimer and block.one
Version: Source cited by the 2018 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0024
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — EOS.IO technical white paper
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What changed

This page covers the 2018 technical design only. It is not an account of later block-producer governance.

Relationships

Canonical readingEOSIO study
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Author–date

Larimer, D., & block.one (2018). EOS.IO Technical White Paper. Daniel Larimer and block.one. https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/TechnicalWhitePaper.md

BibTeX

@techreport{eosio2018,
  title = {EOS.IO Technical White Paper},
  author = {Daniel Larimer and block.one},
  year = {2018},
  institution = {Daniel Larimer and block.one},
  url = {https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/TechnicalWhitePaper.md},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/eosio}
}

RIS

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AU  - block.one
PY  - 2018
PB  - Daniel Larimer and block.one
UR  - https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/TechnicalWhitePaper.md
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Rights record

Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
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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