Research corpus ScalingBLC-STUDY-0032

LazyLedger: A Distributed Data Availability Ledger With Client-Side Smart Contracts

Al-Bassam's LazyLedger paper, the research origin of Celestia. The base layer orders and makes data available. It does not execute application transitions. Clients check availability with sampling, and applications execute on their own.

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Authors: Mustafa Al-Bassam
Date: 2019
Publisher: Mustafa Al-Bassam
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0032
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Al-Bassam, M. (2019). LazyLedger: A Distributed Data Availability Ledger With Client-Side Smart Contracts. Mustafa Al-Bassam. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.09274

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@techreport{lazyledger2019,
  title = {LazyLedger: A Distributed Data Availability Ledger With Client-Side Smart Contracts},
  author = {Mustafa Al-Bassam},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Mustafa Al-Bassam},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.09274},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/lazyledger}
}

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PY  - 2019
PB  - Mustafa Al-Bassam
UR  - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.09274
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
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