Sources — On-Chain Validation

Institutional and technical reference points.

Core Protocol Foundations

Satoshi Nakamoto — Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Ethereum Yellow Paper — A Formal Definition of the Ethereum Protocol

Consensus and Validation Mechanisms

Lamport et al. — The Part-Time Parliament (Paxos Consensus)

Castro & Liskov — Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Cryptographic Verification

NIST FIPS 180-4 — Secure Hash Standard (SHS)

NIST FIPS 186-4 — Digital Signature Standard (DSS)