github.com/pure-x-eth/consensus_tm@v0.0.0-20230502163723-e3c2ff987250/docs/README.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: Tendermint Core Documentation 3 description: Tendermint Core is a blockchain application platform. 4 footer: 5 newsletter: false 6 --- 7 8 # Tendermint 9 10 Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation! 11 12 Tendermint Core is a blockchain application platform; it provides the equivalent 13 of a web-server, database, and supporting libraries for blockchain applications 14 written in any programming language. Like a web-server serving web applications, 15 Tendermint serves blockchain applications. 16 17 More formally, Tendermint Core performs Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) State 18 Machine Replication (SMR) for arbitrary deterministic, finite state machines. 19 For more background, see [What is 20 Tendermint?](introduction/what-is-tendermint.md). 21 22 To get started quickly with an example application, see the [quick start 23 guide](introduction/quick-start.md). 24 25 To learn about application development on Tendermint, see the [Application 26 Blockchain 27 Interface](https://github.com/pure-x-eth/consensus_tm/tree/v0.34.x/spec/abci). 28 29 For more details on using Tendermint, see the respective documentation for 30 [Tendermint Core](tendermint-core/), [benchmarking and monitoring](tools/), and 31 [network deployments](networks/). 32 33 To find out about the Tendermint ecosystem you can go 34 [here](https://github.com/tendermint/awesome#ecosystem). If you are a project 35 that is using Tendermint you are welcome to make a PR to add your project to the 36 list. 37 38 ## Contribute 39 40 To contribute to the documentation, see [this 41 file](https://github.com/pure-x-eth/consensus_tm/blob/main/docs/DOCS_README.md) 42 for details of the build process and considerations when making changes.