whitepaper VS solevm

Whitepaper: Scam projects do not spend too much time on their whitepaper, and it shows. The following are the whitepapers of reputable projects: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos, Matic, Algorand. As you can see, they are highly technical (not so much for Bitcoin, but it’s understandable as it was the first one). Scam Projects either won’t have a Whitepaper at the time of token launch, and if they do it will be riddled with typos and bad grammar, and they won’t be technical at all. They are either a low-effort document or designed to be simple and effective to what the team wants you to do: buy their token. They will try to awaken your greed offering irresistible returns and give you a sense of urgency so that you invest without thinking. Sometimes they will be more subtle, but they will still be easy to call out compared to a serious project’s whitepaper.

Actually Polygon runs a sort of "private blockchain" the Matic chain as shown here https://github.com/maticnetwork/whitepaper

The official whitepaper on github (https://github.com/maticnetwork/whitepaper) is a sort of high level summary, a description for non-techie people. I thought I found a link to a more detailed whitepaper at the very bottom of this page https://polygon.technology/technology/ but the link to https://polygon.technology/whitepaper.pdf is broken.

Whitepaper

Here are some comparisons: - Ethereum whitepaper: https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/ - Bitcoin whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf - Chainlink whitepaper: https://chain.link/whitepaper - Cardano whitepaper: https://why.cardano.org - Polkadot whitepaper: https://polkadot.network/PolkaDotPaper.pdf - Polygon whitepaper: https://github.com/maticnetwork/whitepaper

Some work on this already started (see solevm), but the focus will be to correctly encode the whole EVM state in such a way that it can fit inside a transaction in the root chain, for the purposes of verifying it with an interactive Truebit game.