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- # Tendermint
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- Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation! The introduction below provides
- an overview to help you navigate to your area of interest.
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- ## Introduction
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- Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state
- transition machine - written in any programming language - and securely
- replicates it on many machines. In other words, a blockchain.
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- Tendermint requires an application running over the Application Blockchain
- Interface (ABCI) - and comes packaged with an example application to do so.
- Follow the [installation instructions](./install) to get up and running
- quickly. For more details on [using tendermint](./using-tendermint) see that
- and the following sections.
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- ## Networks
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- Testnets can be setup manually on one or more machines, or automatically on one
- or more machine, using a variety of methods described in the [deploy testnets
- section](./deploy-testnets). For more information (and to join) about the
- Cosmos Network testnets, see [here](/getting-started/full-node.md).
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- ## Application Development
-
- The first step to building application on Tendermint is to [install
- ABCI-CLI](./getting-started) and play with the example applications.
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