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# Tendermint
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[Byzantine-Fault Tolerant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance)
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[State Machine Replication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_machine_replication).
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Or [Blockchain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_(database)) for short.
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[](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/releases/latest)
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[](https://godoc.org/github.com/tendermint/tendermint)
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[](http://forum.tendermint.com:3000/)
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[](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/LICENSE)
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[](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint)
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Branch | Tests | Coverage | Report Card
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develop | [](https://circleci.com/gh/tendermint/tendermint/tree/develop) | [](https://codecov.io/gh/tendermint/tendermint) | [](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/develop)
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master | [](https://circleci.com/gh/tendermint/tendermint/tree/master) | [](https://codecov.io/gh/tendermint/tendermint) | [](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/master)
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_NOTE: This is alpha software. Please contact us if you intend to run it in production._
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Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state transition machine, written in any programming language,
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and securely replicates it on many machines.
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For more background, see the [introduction](https://tendermint.com/intro).
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To get started developing applications, see the [application developers guide](https://tendermint.com/docs/guides/app-development).
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### Code of Conduct
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Please read, understand and adhere to our [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
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## Install
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To download pre-built binaries, see our [downloads page](https://tendermint.com/intro/getting-started/download).
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To install from source, you should be able to:
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`go get -u github.com/tendermint/tendermint/cmd/tendermint`
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For more details (or if it fails), see the [install guide](https://tendermint.com/docs/guides/install).
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## Contributing
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Yay open source! Please see our [contributing guidelines](https://tendermint.com/docs/guides/contributing).
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## Resources
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### Tendermint Core
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- [Introduction](https://tendermint.com/intro)
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- [Docs](https://tendermint.com/docs)
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- [Software using Tendermint](https://tendermint.com/ecosystem)
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### Sub-projects
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* [ABCI](http://github.com/tendermint/abci), the Application Blockchain Interface
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* [Go-Wire](http://github.com/tendermint/go-wire), a deterministic serialization library
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* [Go-Crypto](http://github.com/tendermint/go-crypto), an elliptic curve cryptography library
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* [TmLibs](http://github.com/tendermint/tmlibs), an assortment of Go libraries
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* [Merkleeyes](http://github.com/tendermint/merkleeyes), a balanced, binary Merkle tree for ABCI apps
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### Tools
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* [Deployment, Benchmarking, and Monitoring](https://github.com/tendermint/tools)
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### Applications
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* [Ethermint](http://github.com/tendermint/ethermint): Ethereum on Tendermint
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* [Basecoin](http://github.com/tendermint/basecoin), a cryptocurrency application framework
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### More
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* [Tendermint Blog](https://tendermint.com/blog)
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* [Cosmos Blog](https://cosmos.network/blog)
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* [Original Whitepaper (out-of-date)](http://www.the-blockchain.com/docs/Tendermint%20Consensus%20without%20Mining.pdf)
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* [Master's Thesis on Tendermint](https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9769)
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