Choose your Onboarding Path

Our onboarding paths answer the following questions:

1. What can Cartesi do for you as a new blockchain user?
2. What can Cartesi do for you as a developer?
3. What can Cartesi do for you as a researcher/low-level developer?

Beginner

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This section of documentation targets new blockchain users who want to learn more about blockchain technology, dApps, and Rollups.

You can start by watching our Blockchain Course (available on Youtube):

1. Smart Contracts With Ethereum & Solidity
2. How Does Ethereum Work?
3. Introduction To Solidity
4. Solidity NFT Auction
5. Blockchain Limitations
6. Ethereum Scaling Solutions

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Read the article about Scalability to learn more about solving the scalability issue in a blockchain system.

Developer

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This section targets developers who want to start building dApps.

As a developer, you can use all the programming languages, tools, libraries, software, and services you are already familiar with. By moving most of the complex logic of their dApps to portable off-chain components, developers are freed from the limitations and idiosyncrasies imposed by blockchains. In this way, Cartesi empowers developers to select the best run-time environment in which to host each part of their dApps.

Quick start to run your first dApp

The fastest way of getting started is by Running a Simple dApp that we already built using Python.

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Check the section Cartesi Rollups to learn theoretical concepts such as dApp architecture, available APIs, and how Cartesi's off-chain and on-chain components work under the hood.

• Navigate to Build dApps section for more guides:

  • Technical Prerequisites
  • Steps to create a dApp

• Check more examples on GitHub such as:

  • Echo Python dApp
  • Echo C++ dApp
  • Echo Rust dApp
  • Echo Lua dApp
  • Echo JS dApp
  • Echo Low-Level
  • Converter dApp
  • Calculator dApp
  • SQLite dApp
  • k-NN dApp
  • m2cgen dApp
  • ERC-20 dApp
  • Auction dApp

Researcher & Low-level developer

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This section targets researchers and low-level programmers who want to dive into our core technology.

Cartesi Machine

You can dive deeper into Cartesi's core technology by reading the section about the Cartesi Machine, which is a virtual machine that allows for verifiable computing using a Linux operating system.

Cartesi Compute SDK to run a dApp off-chain

You can use the Cartesi Compute SDK to leverage Cartesi to run one-off complex computations that could never be executed inside a normal smart contract. Instead, those computations are executed off-chain with automatic dispute resolution guarantees, and its results can later be used on-chain.

Navigate to Cartesi Compute Tutorials section for more examples:

• HelloWorld
• Calculator
• Generic Script
• GPG Verify
• Dogecoin Hash