References

Chia Network

• chia.net -- Chia's main website
• chialisp.com -- the official chialisp website
• Chia's business white paper

Chia's Technical Specs

• Chia's green paper -- showcases Proofs of Space and Time
• Proofs of Space specification
• BLS Signatures
• Verifiable Delay Function (VDF)
• Proofs of Space
• Binary Quadratic Forms -- a white paper by Lipa Long
• How to Store a Permutation Compactly by Bram Cohen and Dan Boneh

Video

• Bram Cohen's 2022 presentation at Off the Chain 22 regarding custody solutions including authorized payee wallets and clawback transactions.
• Mariano Sorgente's 2019 presentation at MIT on how to achieve Nakamoto consensus with Proof of Space and VDFs
• Bram Cohen's 2018 presentation at Stanford on Proofs of Space
• Bram Cohen's 2018 presentation at BPASE on the Beyond Hellman academic paper (slides by Hamza Abusalah)
• Ben Fisch's 2018 presentation at BPASE 2018 on Verifiable Delay Functions
• Bram Cohen's 2018 presentation at Berkeley (which starts about 20:00)
• Bram Cohen's 2017 presentation at BPASE on removing waste with Proofs of Space and Time
• Bram Cohen's 2015 presentation at SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar about data structures for scaling Bitcoin with slides and Merkle Set code

External

• Chia's power consumption
• BladeBit CUDA Performance Analysis, by scienceofmining.com
• A Survey of Two Verifiable Delay Functions, by our advisors Dan Boneh, Benedikt Bünz, and Ben Fisch
• Simple Verifiable Delay Functions, by our advisor Krzysztof Pietrzak
• History of Cryptography, from Stanford University
• Beyond Hellman, by Hamza Abusalah, Jo ̈el Alwen, Bram Cohen, Danylo Khilko, Krzysztof Pietrzak, and Leonid Reyzin
• POS Longest Chain Protocols, by Vivek Bagaria, Amir Dembo, Sreeram Kannan, Sewoong Oh, David Tse, Pramod Viswanath, Xuechao Wang, and Ofer Zeitouni
• Flyclient paper, by Benedikt Bunz, Lucianna Kiffer, Loi Luu, and Mahdi Zamani
• PoSAT paper, by Soubhik Deb, Sreeram Kannan, and David Tse
• PoS security vs predictability, by Vivek Bagaria, Amir Dembo, Sreeram Kannan, Sewoong Oh, David Tse, Pramod Viswanath, Xuechao Wang, and Ofer Zeitouni
• bech32m -- the address encoding scheme used by Chia
• x.509 -- the public key certificate used in Chia peer nodes
• DER -- a data structure used with x.509 certificates
• BLS-12-381 -- the type of keys Chia uses
• IETF -- the BLS signature specification
• EIP-2333 -- a tree structure for deriving BLS keys
• SLIP-0044 -- registered coin types for BIP-0044