Overview

This section describes the fundamental concepts and features that underpin the Corda platform, to include:

• Corda ecosystem
• Data model
• Core types
• Financial model
• Flow framework
• Consensus and notaries
• Vault
• Security model

Detailed thinking and rationale behind these concepts are presented in the following published white papers:

• Corda: An Introduction
• Corda: A Distributed Ledger (Technical White Paper)