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# Tendermint
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Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation!
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Tendermint Core is a blockchain application platform; it provides the equivalent
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of a web-server, database, and supporting libraries for blockchain applications
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written in any programming language. Like a web-server serving web applications,
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Tendermint serves blockchain applications.
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More formally, Tendermint Core performs Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT)
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State Machine Replication (SMR) for arbitrary deterministic, finite state machines.
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For more background, see [What is
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Tendermint?](introduction/what-is-tendermint.md).
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To get started quickly with an example application, see the [quick start guide](introduction/quick-start.md).
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To learn about application development on Tendermint, see the [Application Blockchain Interface](spec/abci).
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For more details on using Tendermint, see the respective documentation for
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[Tendermint Core](tendermint-core), [benchmarking and monitoring](tools), and [network deployments](networks).
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## Contribute
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To contribute to the documentation, see [this file](./DOCS_README.md) for details of the build process and
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considerations when making changes.
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## Version
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This documentation is built from the following commit:
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