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Lineage is a research project as much as a layer-one protocol. The work below is published on Zenodo (open working papers, CC BY 4.0). The list is in reverse chronological order, newest first.
Papers and whitepapers on Zenodo
24 March 2026 · record 19203176
Universal Turing Market Machines (UTMMs)
Sets out UTMMs as a framework for blockchain-based markets in which market policy is a programmable, adaptive object: transaction history is used as an epistemic substrate, with deterministic feature extraction, evaluation of policies in a constrained space, and improvement via bounded search—while remaining within classical computability limits.
1 December 2025 · record 17777930
Toward a Universal Turing Market Machine: Autonomous, Neuromorphic Market Infrastructure
Introduces the Universal Turing Market Machine and ARCOs (adaptive resource-coordinated organisms): a neuromorphic-style market layer that combines sensory inputs, ledger signalling, and actuators, framed with Hayek’s spontaneous order and Ashby’s law of requisite variety for self-organizing market process.
25 June 2025 · record 15737849
Smart Market White Paper
Describes consensus-defended adaptive algorithms: systems in which “intelligence” is expressed through adaptation at runtime, rather than requiring it to be fully fixed at design time.
24 June 2025 · record 15730748
Parallelized Merkle-Tree Validation in Proof-of-Work Mining
On the DPoWW consensus model, how to parallelise validation payloads to scale miner throughput, including a deterministic treatment of fragmented Merkle coverage and a Steiner-triple style tradeoff between payload size and miner count for fault tolerance.
24 June 2025 · record 15730321
Dynamic Proof of Weighted Work
Introduces a Nakamoto-style design that can move between a fully distributed mode and a semi-decentralized one for higher throughput, reverting to full distribution when fault conditions require it—switching between pure proof-of-work and a hash rate–validated mode analogous to proof-of-stake, with suitable hash and parallelization choices for broader workloads.
7 May 2025 · record 15360914
A Computational Model for World-State based contracts in UTXO PoW-Style Blockchains
Proposes a way to carry world state in a UTXO setting using monad-style composition to limit side effects: more expressive, context-sensitive operation on data (item) transactions, with coin scripts kept safe and non–Turing complete for value movement.
2 May 2025 · record 15324203
Peer-to-peer electronic cash revisited
Revisits electronic cash design to aim for low volatility without relying on external collateral or game-theoretic levers, from the perspective of peer-to-peer currency design.
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