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- title: Tendermint Core Documentation
- description: Tendermint Core is a blockchain application platform.
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- # Tendermint
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- Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation!
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- Tendermint Core is a blockchain application platform; it provides the equivalent
- of a web-server, database, and supporting libraries for blockchain applications
- written in any programming language. Like a web-server serving web applications,
- Tendermint serves blockchain applications.
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- More formally, Tendermint Core performs Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT)
- State Machine Replication (SMR) for arbitrary deterministic, finite state machines.
- For more background, see [What is
- Tendermint?](introduction/what-is-tendermint.md).
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- To get started quickly with an example application, see the [quick start guide](introduction/quick-start.md).
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- To learn about application development on Tendermint, see the [Application Blockchain Interface](../spec/abci).
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- For more details on using Tendermint, see the respective documentation for
- [Tendermint Core](tendermint-core/), [benchmarking and monitoring](tools/), and [network deployments](nodes/).
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- To find out about the Tendermint ecosystem you can go [here](https://github.com/tendermint/awesome#ecosystem). If you are a project that is using Tendermint you are welcome to make a PR to add your project to the list.
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- ## Contribute
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- 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 considerations when making changes.
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