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# Tendermint
Simple, Secure, Scalable Blockchain Platform
[Byzantine-Fault Tolerant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance)
[State Machine Replication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_machine_replication).
Or [Blockchain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_(database)) for short.
[![version](https://img.shields.io/github/tag/tendermint/tendermint.svg)](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/releases/latest)
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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.
and securely replicates it on many machines.
For more background, see the [introduction](https://tendermint.com/intro).
To get started developing applications, see the [application developers guide](https://tendermint.com/docs/guides/app-development).
## Install
`go get -u github.com/tendermint/tendermint/cmd/tendermint`
For more details (or if it fails), see the [install guide](https://tendermint.com/intro/getting-started/install).
## Contributing
Yay open source! Please see our [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Contributing).
Yay open source! Please see our [contributing guidelines](https://tendermint.com/guides/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)
- [Introduction](https://tendermint.com/intro)
- [Docs](https://tendermint.com/docs)
- [Software using Tendermint](https://tendermint.com/ecosystem)
### Sub-projects
* [TMSP](http://github.com/tendermint/tmsp)
* [Ethermint](http://github.com/tendermint/ethermint)
* [Basecoin](http://github.com/tendermint/basecoin)
* [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
### More
`go get -u github.com/tendermint/tendermint/cmd/tendermint`
* [Tendermint Blog](https://tendermint.com/blog)
* [Cosmos Blog](https://cosmos.network/blog)
* [Original Whitepaper (out-of-date)](http://www.the-blockchain.com/docs/Tendermint%20Consensus%20without%20Mining.pdf)
* [Master's Thesis on Tendermint](https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9769)
For more details, see the [install guide](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Installation).

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