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  1. # Tendermint
  2. Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation!
  3. Tendermint Core is a blockchain application platform; it provides the equivalent
  4. of a web-server, database, and supporting libraries for blockchain applications
  5. written in any programming language. Like a web-server serving web applications,
  6. Tendermint serves blockchain applications.
  7. More formally, Tendermint Core performs Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT)
  8. State Machine Replication (SMR) for arbitrary deterministic, finite state machines.
  9. For more background, see [What is
  10. Tendermint?](introduction/what-is-tendermint.md).
  11. To get started quickly with an example application, see the [quick start guide](introduction/quick-start.md).
  12. To learn about application development on Tendermint, see the [Application Blockchain Interface](spec/abci/).
  13. For more details on using Tendermint, see the respective documentation for
  14. [Tendermint Core](tendermint-core/), [benchmarking and monitoring](tools/), and [network deployments](networks/).
  15. ## Contribute
  16. To contribute to the documentation, see [this file](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/docs/DOCS_README.md) for details of the build process and
  17. considerations when making changes.
  18. ## Version
  19. This documentation is built from the following commit: