# Tendermint

Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation! Below you'll find an
overview of the documentation.

Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state
transition machine - written in any programming language - and securely
replicates it on many machines. In other words, a blockchain.

Tendermint requires an application running over the Application Blockchain
Interface (ABCI) - and comes packaged with an example application to do so.

## Getting Started

Here you'll find quick start guides and links to more advanced "get up and running"
documentation.

## Core

Details about the core functionality and configuration of Tendermint.

## Tools

Benchmarking and monitoring tools.

## Networks

Setting up testnets manually or automated, local or in the cloud.

## Apps

Building appplications with the ABCI.

## Specification

Dive deep into the spec. There's one for each Tendermint and the ABCI

## Edit the Documentation

See [this file](./DOCS_README.md) for details of the build process and
considerations when making changes.