Welcome to the official Casper documentation

What is Casper?

Casper is a smart-contracting platform, backed by a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm and WebAssembly (Wasm). The network is a permissionless, decentralized, public blockchain.

How to use this documentation portal

Nav bar

The Nav bar is along the top of your screen and contains the following elements (left to right):

• Concepts
  This section contains information on the ideas and metaphors which are essential to understanding the Casper software and network.

• Developers
  This area covers topics interesting to anyone involved in writing code that interacts with a Casper system. Everything from web3 developers creating web sites and applications that are backed by a Casper datastore or web3 service, to those creating middleware components that sit between the blockchain itself and a web3 app, to smart contract developers and core protocol developers who work exclusively in Rust.

• Operators
  An Operator is anyone who runs a Casper node, whether for curiosity, development or as part of the Mainnet. This section contains topics designed to get you up and running with a Casper node.

• Users
  This classification covers people who simply want to use the Casper blockchain, and have no plans to develop an app, write code or run a node.

• Resources
  This The Resources section contains general information that is useful to many users of the chain.

• Search
  Standard text-based Search facility, searches both the Blog and the Casper Docs for your search queries.

• Feedback
  Allows you to submit requests for improvement to this docs site.

• Condor
  This brings you to the blog posts tagged with "Condor".

• Blog
  This brings you to the Blog section of the docs site, where long form articles can be published.

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