Welcome to the Textbook

This book explains the concepts that power the Symbol blockchain.

The User Manual and the Developer Manual already provide links to the appropriate textbook pages when needed, so there is typically no need to read this book cover to cover.

The Textbook is organized into the following sections:

Section	Pages
Foundations	Basic Cryptography, Accounts, Transactions, Transfer Transactions
State and Assets	Mosaics, Namespaces, Metadata, Restrictions
Blockchain Structure	Blocks, Consensus
Network and Operation	Nodes, Harvesting
Advanced Topics	Cross-Chain Swaps
Implementation	Catapult, CATS DSL