Crypto Catalog

A plain-English reference catalog for cryptocurrency concepts

A plain-English reference catalog for cryptocurrency concepts

Whitepaper Coverage Checklist

Reading a crypto project's whitepaper or documentation? Answer seven yes/no questions about what the document actually contains. The score measures documentation completeness — how many of a careful reader's basic questions the document bothers to answer. It does not measure whether the project is legitimate, viable, or worth anything.

This tool scores what a document covers, nothing more. A complete document can still be wrong, and a sparse one can describe honest work. Nothing here is investment advice; the checklist will never tell you whether to put money into anything.

Crypto Catalog is a reference site for people who keep running into cryptocurrency terms — blockchain, proof of stake, smart contract, stablecoin — and want plain-English explanations grounded in primary sources rather than marketing copy.

Every page here answers one concrete question, and every technical claim traces back to an authoritative document: the NIST blockchain overview, the original Bitcoin whitepaper, the Ethereum developer documentation, and official U.S. government consumer and tax pages. Where those sources don't answer a question, we say so instead of guessing.

The centerpiece is the Whitepaper Coverage Checklist — a scoring tool that walks you through seven questions any crypto project's documentation should answer, from "what problem does this solve?" to "who controls protocol changes?" It measures how complete a document is, not whether a project is good, and it's designed to be reused every time you sit down with a new whitepaper.

What you will not find here: price predictions, coin recommendations, or investment advice of any kind. This is a catalog of concepts, not a buying guide. Start with What is a blockchain? if you're new, or jump straight to the checklist if you have a document in front of you.