# Nimbus Eth2 (Beacon Chain)

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Welcome to Nimbus for Ethereum 2.0.

Nimbus beacon chain is a research implementation of the beacon chain component of the upcoming Ethereum Serenity upgrade, aka Eth2.

## Manual

Please see the complete guide at [The nim-beacon-chain Book](https://status-im.github.io/nim-beacon-chain/).

## Quick Start

As a user, you can connect to testnets and become a validator as follows:

```
git clone https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain
cd nim-beacon-chain
make witti
```

## License

Licensed and distributed under either of

- MIT license: [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

or

- Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHEv2](LICENSE-APACHEv2) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

at your option. These files may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.