Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon just released today, 10 August 2017, the white paper for Plasma.
"Plasma is a proposed framework for incentivized and enforced execution of smart contracts which is scalable to a significant amount of state updates per second (potentially billions) enabling the blockchain to be able to represent a significant amount of decentralized financial applications worldwide."
This is a very important document that will likely equate the significance of the Ethereum white paper in 2014.
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