github.com/vipernet-xyz/tendermint-core@v0.32.0/docs/README.md (about) 1 # Tendermint 2 3 Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation! 4 5 Tendermint Core is a blockchain application platform; it provides the equivalent 6 of a web-server, database, and supporting libraries for blockchain applications 7 written in any programming language. Like a web-server serving web applications, 8 Tendermint serves blockchain applications. 9 10 More formally, Tendermint Core performs Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) 11 State Machine Replication (SMR) for arbitrary deterministic, finite state machines. 12 For more background, see [What is 13 Tendermint?](introduction/what-is-tendermint.md). 14 15 To get started quickly with an example application, see the [quick start guide](introduction/quick-start.md). 16 17 To learn about application development on Tendermint, see the [Application Blockchain Interface](https://github.com/tendermint/spec/tree/master/spec/abci). 18 19 For more details on using Tendermint, see the respective documentation for 20 [Tendermint Core](tendermint-core/), [benchmarking and monitoring](tools/), and [network deployments](networks/). 21 22 To find out about the Tendermint ecosystem you can go [here](https://github.com/tendermint/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. 23 24 ## Contribute 25 26 To contribute to the documentation, see [this file](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/docs/DOCS_README.md) for details of the build process and 27 considerations when making changes.