There are many projects that published good quality whitepapers, such as Ethereum, Polksdot, Uniswap, to name a few. Two things distinguish a good white paper: it lists the author’s names at the very beginning and it includes a reference section at the very end. Usually, the author(s) are the founders and/or responsible for the design and building of the project. With the references, one can know the previous academic research that the project is based on, and what improvements or new features the people behind it are building. In many cases, innovative projects offer better opportunities than projects that simply make changes to forked code.