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# Ethermint Documentation
## Get Started
- **[Introduction](./intro/overview.md)**: High-level overview of Ethermint.
## Reference
- **[Basics](./basics/)**: Documentation on the basic concepts of Ethermint, like the standard anatomy of an application, the transaction lifecycle and accounts management.
- **[Core](./core/)**: Documentation on the core concepts of Ethermint, like `encoding`, and `events`.
- **[Building Modules](./building-modules/)**: Important concepts for module developers like `message`s, `keeper`s, `handler`s and `querier`s.
- **[Interfaces](./interfaces/)**: Documentation on building interfaces for Ethermint applications.
## Other Resources
- **[Module Directory](../x/)**: Module implementations and their respective documentation.
- **[Ethermint API Reference](https://godoc.org/github.com/cosmos/ethermint)**: Godocs of Ethermint.
- **[REST API spec](https://cosmos.network/rpc/)**: List of REST endpoints to interact with an full-node through REST.
See [this file](https://github.com/ChainSafe/ethermint/blob/development/docs/DOCS_README.md) for details of the build process and considerations when making changes.
