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# Nimbus Eth2 (Beacon Chain)
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Welcome to Nimbus for Ethereum 2.0.
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Nimbus beacon chain is a research implementation of the beacon chain component of the upcoming Ethereum Serenity upgrade, aka Eth2.
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## Manual
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Please see the complete guide at [The nim-beacon-chain Book ](https://status-im.github.io/nim-beacon-chain/ ).
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## Quick Start
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As a user, you can connect to testnets and become a validator as follows:
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```
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git clone https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain
cd nim-beacon-chain
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make witti
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```
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## License
Licensed and distributed under either of
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- MIT license: [LICENSE-MIT ](LICENSE-MIT ) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
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or
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- Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHEv2](LICENSE-APACHEv2) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
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at your option. These files may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.