# Lotus

Lotus is an implementation of the **Filecoin Distributed Storage Network**.

It is written in Go and provides a suite of command-line applications:

- Lotus Node (`lotus`): a Filecoin Node: validates network transactions, manages a FIL wallet, can perform storage and retrieval deals.
- Lotus Miner (`lotus-miner`): a Filecoin miner. See the the respective Lotus Miner section in the Mine documentation.
- Lotus Worker (`lotus-worker`): a worker that assists miners to perform mining-related tasks. See its respective guide for more information.

The [Lotus user documentation](https://lotus.filecoin.io/lotus/get-started/what-is-lotus/) is part of the [Filecoin documentation site](https://lotus.filecoin.io):

* To install and get started with Lotus, visit the [Get Started section](https://lotus.filecoin.io/lotus/install/prerequisites/).
* Information about how to perform deals on the Filecoin network using Lotus can be found  in the [Store section](https://lotus.filecoin.io/tutorials/lotus/store-and-retrieve/store-data/).
* Miners looking to provide storage to the Network can find the latest guides in the [Mine section](https://lotus.filecoin.io/tutorials/lotus-miner/run-a-miner/).
* Developers and integrators that wish to use the Lotus APIs can start in the [Build section](https://lotus.filecoin.io/tutorials/lotus/build-with-lotus-api/).

For more details about Filecoin, check out the [Filecoin Docs](https://lotus.filecoin.io) and [Filecoin Spec](https://spec.filecoin.io/).