Tendermint

Byzantine-Fault Tolerant State Machine Replication. Or Blockchain for short.

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NOTE: This is alpha software. Please contact us if you intend to run it in production.

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.

For more background, see the introduction.

To get started developing applications, see the application developers guide.

Install

To download pre-built binaries, see our downloads page.

To install from source, you should be able to:

go get -u github.com/tendermint/tendermint/cmd/tendermint

For more details (or if it fails), see the install guide.

Contributing

Yay open source! Please see our contributing guidelines.

Resources

Tendermint Core

• Introduction
• Docs
• Software using Tendermint

Sub-projects

• ABCI, for enabling applications in any language
• Go-Wire, our serialization library
• Go-Crypto, our cryptography library
• TmLibs, our assortment of Go librarues
• Merkleeyes, a balanced, binary Merkle tree for ABCI apps

Tools

• Deployment, Benchmarking, and Monitoring

Applications

• Ethermint, for running Ethereum on Tendermint
• Basecoin, our cryptocurrency application framework

More

• Tendermint Blog
• Cosmos Blog
• Original Whitepaper (out-of-date)
• Master's Thesis on Tendermint