| A next-generation smart contract and decentralized application platform V Buterin white paper 3 (37), 2-1, 2014 | 5534 | 2014 |
| Ethereum white paper V Buterin GitHub repository 1, 22-23, 2013 | 1216 | 2013 |
| Casper the friendly finality gadget V Buterin, V Griffith arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09437, 2017 | 871 | 2017 |
| On public and private blockchains V Buterin | 715 | 2015 |
| Ethereum white paper: a next generation smart contract & decentralized application platform V Buterin First version 53, 2014 | 696 | 2014 |
| Plasma: Scalable autonomous smart contracts J Poon, V Buterin White paper, 1-47, 2017 | 602 | 2017 |
| ERC-20 token standard F Vogelsteller, V Buterin Ethereum Foundation (Stiftung Ethereum), Zug, Switzerland 169, 2015 | 349 | 2015 |
| Chain interoperability V Buterin R3 research paper 9, 1-25, 2016 | 311 | 2016 |
| Storj a peer-to-peer cloud storage network S Wilkinson, T Boshevski, J Brandoff, V Buterin | 305 | 2014 |
| Ethereum: a next-generation smart contract and decentralized application platform (2014) V Buterin URL {http://ethereum. org/ethereum. html}, 2017 | 272 | 2017 |
| DAOs, DACs, DAs and more: An incomplete terminology guide V Buterin Ethereum Blog 6, 2014, 2014 | 244 | 2014 |
| Decentralized society: Finding web3's soul P Ohlhaver, EG Weyl, V Buterin Available at SSRN 4105763, 2022 | 194 | 2022 |
| The meaning of decentralization V Buterin Medium. com 6, 2017 | 191 | 2017 |
| Combining GHOST and casper V Buterin, D Hernandez, T Kamphefner, K Pham, Z Qiao, D Ryan, J Sin, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.03052, 2020 | 162 | 2020 |
| What proof of stake is and why it matters V Buterin Bitcoin Magazine 26, 2013 | 151* | 2013 |
| Ethereum white paper (2013) V Buterin URL https://github. com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper, 2013 | 141 | 2013 |
| Ethereum: platform review V Buterin Opportunities and challenges for private and consortium blockchains 45, 1-45, 2016 | 128 | 2016 |
| Visions part I: The value of blockchain technology V Buterin Ethereum Blog 23, 2015 | 128 | 2015 |
| Incentives in Ethereum's hybrid Casper protocol V Buterin, D Reijsbergen, S Leonardos, G Piliouras International Journal of Network Management 30 (5), e2098, 2020 | 124 | 2020 |
| A next-generation smart contract and decentralized application platform, 2013 V Buterin URL: https://github. com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper, 2015 | 123 | 2015 |
