light paper

plural light papers

1. businessA short white paper; a brief factual report detailing a new product or technology.

   WENN Digital, the company licensing Kodak's name to do an initial coin offering, sent emails to prospective investors Thursday with a link to a "light paper" detailing its plan for KodakCoin.

   2018 March 18, Lily Katz, “Kodak's Crypto Coin Might Not Be a Security ... Or It Might Be”, in Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2023

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   There are many ICOs in our data sample that provide only the lightpaper version of their whitepaper. The lengthiest whitepaper in our data sample exhibits almost 300 pages, whereas the shortest one is just a single page lightpaper.

   2023 March, Niranjan Sapkota, Klaus Grobys, “Fear sells: On the sentiment deceptions and fundraising success of initial coin offerings”, in Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, volume 83, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5