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 Hello! I am Zebra, an ongoing Rust implementation of a Zcash node.
 
+Zebra is a work in progress.  It is developed as a collection of `zebra-*`
+libraries implementing the different components of a Zcash node (networking,
+chain structures, consensus rules, etc), and a `zebrad` binary which uses them.
+
+[Rendered docs from the `main` branch](https://doc.zebra.zfnd.org).
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 ## License
 
 Zebra is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license