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A Foundation for Ledger Structures

Logic in Computer Science 2021-04-05 v2 Category Theory

Abstract

This paper introduces an approach to constructing ledger structures for cryptocurrency systems with basic category theory. Compositional theories of resource convertibility allow us to express the material history of virtual goods, and ownership is modelled by a free construction. Our notion of ownership admits an intuitive graphical representation through string diagrams for monoidal functors.

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@article{arxiv.2010.08337,
  title  = {A Foundation for Ledger Structures},
  author = {Chad Nester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.08337},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages, many figures

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