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Hyperledger Sawtooth
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Hyperledger Sawtooth is an enterprise solution for building, deploying, and
running distributed ledgers (also called blockchains). It provides an extremely
modular and flexible platform for implementing transaction-based updates to
shared state between untrusted parties coordinated by consensus algorithms.

Documentation
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Documentation for how to run and extend Sawtooth is available here:
https://sawtooth.hyperledger.org/docs/

Hyperledger Sawtooth Core Developers Setup Guide can be found here: [BUILD.md](BUILD.md)

Running examples of Sawtooth blockchains can be found here:
https://sawtooth.hyperledger.org/examples/


Project Status
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This project is an _active_ Hyperledger project. It was proposed to the
community and documented [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j7YcGLJH6LkzvWdOYFIt2kpkVlLEmILErXL6t-Ky2zU/edit).
Information on what _Active_ entails can be found in the
[Hyperledger Project Lifecycle document](https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/HYP/Project+Lifecycle).

License
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Hyperledger Sawtooth software is licensed under the [Apache License Version 2.0](LICENSE) software license.

Hyperledger Sawtooth documentation in the [docs](docs) subdirectory is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.  You may obtain a copy of the
license at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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