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It is a document which basically gives information about the crypto project. It often states why it is built, the tokenomics, what its goals are (roadmap) en its technology. Understanding the crypto project can be done by reading the whitepaper.

There is also a shorter version, often called litepaper. This usually consists of one to several pages.

The first original whitepaper of Bitcoin:
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

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