Lite-Paper

⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux

A lite-paper, also written as litepaper, can be thought of a shorter version of a .

Typically a lite-paper is written before the is written, and can be thought of preview or a teaser of the .

In practice, many who plan to write a first write a lite-paper, and then expand the lite-paper into the .

Lite-Papers were popularized among s.

Sections

There are many different ways one could structure a lite-paper, but — one way a lite-paper can be structured is:

overview
• motivation
• mechanism
• implementation (also sometimes called "design" or "technology stack")
• conclusion

It is not uncommon for authors to add additional sections to this. For example, "protocol-design".

Mechanism versus Implementation

With a lite-paper, the mechanism is more about:

economics mechanism design,
• mathematics,
• parameter definitions,
• formula definitions,
• sampling,
• may show how different choices for parameters lead to different results,
• financial engineering,
• etc.

With a lite-paper, the implmentation is more about:

talk about ERC-??? interface(s) used.
• programming-language choices and possible code,
• etc.

Often, in the implmentation section, the author tries to not reveal too much so that others won't copy them before they get to market.