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# Tendermint
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TEST!
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Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation! The introduction below provides
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an overview to help you navigate to your area of interest.
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## Introduction
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Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state
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transition machine - written in any programming language - and securely
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replicates it on many machines. In other words, a blockchain.
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Tendermint requires an application running over the Application Blockchain
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Interface (ABCI) - and comes packaged with an example application to do so.
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Follow the [installation instructions](./install) to get up and running
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quickly. For more details on [using tendermint](./using-tendermint) see that
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and the following sections.
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## Networks
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Testnets can be setup manually on one or more machines, or automatically on one
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or more machine, using a variety of methods described in the [deploy testnets
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section](./deploy-testnets). For more information (and to join) about the
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Cosmos Network testnets, see [here](/getting-started/full-node.md).
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## Application Development
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The first step to building application on Tendermint is to [install
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ABCI-CLI](./getting-started) and play with the example applications.
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