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Catalyst Whitepaper

This is the Technical White Paper for the Catalyst Network. Discussed within are some of the key concepts that are implemented on the network.

Setting up and using LaTeX can be found here:

https://github.com/catalyst-network/whitepaper/wiki/Using-and-Compiling-LaTeX

This repository is a LaTeX project. The recommended entrypoint is:

• catalyst-technical-whitepaper-new.tex

Install a TeX distribution and latexmk:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y latexmk texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-pictures texlive-bibtex-extra

make pdf

Outputs are written to build/ (see Makefile).

If you prefer not to install TeX locally:

docker build -t catalyst-whitepaper .
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/work" catalyst-whitepaper

• catalyst-technical-whitepaper.tex exists, but may not build in some revisions depending on which consensus subsection file is present.

Each section and subsection is split into separate .tex files for ease of editing. It follows the following rules:

• The Introduction, Conclusion and Abstract are found in tex-files/intro, tex-files/conclusion and tex-files/abstract respectively.
• Each section has a dedicated folder
• Within the section folders each subsection has a dedicated .tex file.

The paper that covers the PoA Test net and the minor changes involved with that can be found here.

Differences are primarily in the consensus algorithm with regards to producer selection.