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The ZILLIQA Technical Whitepaper

A 2017 design for a sharded chain: a directory service that assigns nodes, shards that process transactions in parallel, and a language proposal aimed at safe-by-construction contracts.

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Authors: The Zilliqa Team
Date: 2017
Publisher: The Zilliqa Team
Version: Source cited by the 2017 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0014
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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A 2017 design for a sharded chain: a directory service that assigns nodes, shards that process transactions in parallel, and a language proposal aimed at safe-by-construction contracts.

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Official source — Zilliqa technical white paper
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The Zilliqa Team (2017). The ZILLIQA Technical Whitepaper. The Zilliqa Team. https://docs.zilliqa.com/whitepaper.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{zilliqa2017,
  title = {The ZILLIQA Technical Whitepaper},
  author = {The Zilliqa Team},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {The Zilliqa Team},
  url = {https://docs.zilliqa.com/whitepaper.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/zilliqa}
}

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CSL-JSON

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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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