tendermint/README.md

# Tendermint
Simple, Secure, Scalable Blockchain Platform

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_NOTE: This is yet pre-alpha non-production-quality software._

Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state transition machine, written in any programming language,
and replicates it on many machines.
See the [application developers guide](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Application-Developers) to get started.

## Contributing

Yay open source! Please see our [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Contributing).

## Resources

### Tendermint Core

- [Introduction](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Introduction)
- [Validators](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Validators)
- [Byzantine Consensus Algorithm](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Byzantine-Consensus-Algorithm)
- [Block Structure](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Block-Structure)
- [RPC](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/RPC)
- [Genesis](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Genesis)
- [Configuration](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Configuration)
- [Light Client Protocol](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Light-Client-Protocol)
- [Roadmap for V2](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Roadmap-for-V2)

### Sub-projects

* [TMSP](http://github.com/tendermint/tmsp)
* [Mintnet](http://github.com/tendermint/mintnet)
* [Go-Wire](http://github.com/tendermint/go-wire)
* [Go-P2P](http://github.com/tendermint/go-p2p)
* [Go-Merkle](http://github.com/tendermint/go-merkle)

## Install

`go get -u github.com/tendermint/tendermint/cmd/tendermint`

For more details, see the [install guide](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Installation).