About Ryo
Ryo, as a fork from Monero which itself was initially based on the CryptoNote protocol, inherits all whitepapers and academic studies from CryptoNote and Monero Research Lab. Additionally, Ryo has pioneered technologies such as Cryptonight-Heavy POW / Cryptonight-GPU POW and Uniform Payment ID. Some of them are already used by numerous other Monero forks.