github.com/soomindae/tendermint@v0.0.5-0.20210528140126-84a0c70c8162/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) 18 State 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 guide](introduction/quick-start.md). 23 24 To learn about application development on Tendermint, see the [Application Blockchain Interface](https://github.com/soomindae/spec/tree/master/spec/abci). 25 26 For more details on using Tendermint, see the respective documentation for 27 [Tendermint Core](tendermint-core/), [benchmarking and monitoring](tools/), and [network deployments](networks/). 28 29 To find out about the Tendermint ecosystem you can go [here](https://github.com/soomindae/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. 30 31 ## Contribute 32 33 To contribute to the documentation, see [this file](https://github.com/soomindae/tendermint/blob/master/docs/DOCS_README.md) for details of the build process and considerations when making changes.