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A Foundation for Ledger Structures Nester, Chad String Diagrams Category Theory Blockchains This paper introduces an approach to constructing ledger structures for cryptocurrency systems with basic category theory. Compositional theories of resource convertibility allow us to express the material history of virtual goods, and ownership is modelled by a free construction. Our notion of ownership admits an intuitive graphical representation through string diagrams for monoidal functors. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Chad Nester 2021 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 82, 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Economics, Security and Protocols (Tokenomics 2020) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.Tokenomics.2020.7 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-135293 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Tokenomics.2020.7 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode