Whitepapers and Research Papers

This section provides in-depth documentation and materials about the Theta technology stack.

• To read the Theta Edge Cloud whitepaper, which introduces Theta EdgeCloud, the first hybrid cloud computing platform built on a fully distributed edge architecture, please click here.

• To read the Theta blockchain 4.0 whitepaper, which introduces Theta Metachain to power future Web3 businesses, please click here.

• To read the Theta blockchain 3.0 whitepaper, which introduces the new crypto-economics design for TFuel, in particular TFuel staking and burning, please click here.

• To read the Theta blockchain 2.0 whitepaper, which covers the consensus protocol and the guardian node details, please click here.

• To read the Theta ecosystem 2022 and TDROP token whitepaper, which lays out our vision for the Theta ecosystem, please click here.

• For the technical details of the Theta Multi-level BFT protocol, please click here or here. Theta is also researching into alternative consensus protocols based on verifiable delay functions.

• The Theta decentralized edge computation design and architecture which powers the Theta Folding@Home initiative can be found here (2020): Theta decentralized edge computing platform with a blogpost.

• Theta Labs (aka. SLIVER VR Technologies, Inc) also hold multiple patents covering various areas including virtual reality and blockchain-powered decentralized video streaming.

• We have been collaborating with top-tier academic research institutes on the forefront of AI and blockchain. Here are a selected list of papers we co-published in top AI and Distributed Systems conferences (CVPR, KDD, WWW, SRDS, Multimedia, IEEE DAPPS, IEEE ICBC, and more):

  • Embracing Adaptation: An Effective Dynamic Defense Strategy Against Adversarial Examples , ACM Multimedia 2024
  • SPRING: Improving the Throughput of Sharding Blockchain via Deep Reinforcement Learning Based State Placement , ACM WWW 2024
  • Adversarial Distillation Based on Slack Matching and Attribution Region Alignment IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024
  • Presto: Optimizing Cross-Shard Transactions in Sharded Blockchain Architecture, IEEE SRDS 2024
  • A Dual-Agent Scheduler for Distributed Deep Learning Jobs on Public Cloud via Reinforcement Learning, ACM KDD 2023
  • Large Language Model Guided Tree-of-Thought, a paper proposed the "Tree-of-Thought" framework, made available on Arxiv in May 2023, slightly ahead of a highly cited "Tree of Thoughts" paper from Princeton/Google DeepMind which has very similar ideas.
  • Proof-of-Contribution-Based Design for Collaborative Machine Learning on Blockchain , IEEE DAPPS 2023
  • Off-Chain Micropayment Pool for High-ThroughputBandwidth Sharing Rewards, IEEE ICBC 2021
  • Nakamoto consensus with verifiable delay puzzle, August 2019
  • Scalable BFT consensus mechanism through aggregated signature gossip, IEEE ICBC 2019