Fedimint is a federated [Chaumian e-cash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash) mint backed by bitcoin with deposits and withdrawals that can occur on-chain or via Lightning.
Fedimint is alpha software. Use cautiously, with small amounts of money. There are still multiple known privacy issues.
* Community:
* [Telegram group](https://t.me/fedimint) for high-level non-technical discussion
* [Developer discord](https://chat.fedimint.org) for technical discussion
* For developers:
* [Introduction for contributors](./docs/contributing.md)
* [Setting up dev environment](./docs/dev-env.md)
* [Running Fedimint for dev testing](./docs/dev-running.md)