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Welcome to the Tezos Developer Documentation!
=============================================

Tezos is a distributed consensus platform with meta-consensus
capability. Tezos not only comes to consensus about the state of its ledger,
like Bitcoin or Ethereum. It also attempts to come to consensus about how the
protocol and the nodes should adapt and upgrade.

 - Developer documentation is available online at http://doc.tzalpha.net
 - The page https://www.tezos.com/ contains more information about the
   project, even though it is frozen in time due to external reasons
 - All development now happens on Gitlab at https://gitlab.com/tezos/tezos

The Tezos Alpha (test) network has been live and open since February 2017.

 - More information on joining the Alphanet at :ref:`here <alphanet>`.
 - Several community built block explorers are available:

    - http://ostez.com
    - http://tzscan.io
    - https://tezos.id
    - https://tezoschain.io

- A few community run websites collect useful Tezos links:

    - http://www.tezos.help
    - https://tezos.rocks

 - There is a matrix channel *Tezos* that you can join `here <https://riot.im/app/#/room/#tezos:matrix.org>`_.
 - There is a *#tezos* channel on *freenode* that is reserved for technical discussions
 - There is also a community FAQ at https://github.com/tezoscommunity/faq

The source code of Tezos is currently under exclusive copyright of
Dynamic Ledger Solutions, and will be open sourced under the MIT
license when the main network lunches.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Introduction:

   introduction/howto
   introduction/contributing

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: The Alphanet:

   introduction/alphanet
   introduction/alphanet_changes
   introduction/zeronet

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: White doc:

   whitedoc/the_big_picture
   whitedoc/p2p
   whitedoc/validation
   whitedoc/michelson
   whitedoc/proof_of_stake

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Developer Tutorials:

   tutorials/data_encoding
   tutorials/error_monad
   tutorials/michelson_anti_patterns
   tutorials/entering_alpha
   tutorials/protocol_environment
   tutorials/profiling

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: APIs:

   README
   api/api-inline
   api/cli-commands
   api/rpc
   api/errors

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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`