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+# 🚧 Protokit App Chain Framework
+
+Welcome to the Protokit repository, a protocol development framework for privacy enabled application chains.
+
+Protokit enables developers to build zero-knowledge, interoperable and privacy preserving application chains with a minimal learning curve.
+
+## 📖 Documentation
+
+Find the documentation for protokit on [our website](https://protokit.dev)
+
+## ⚡ Features
+
+- 🔐 Privacy Enabled
+- ♾️ Succint zkVM 
+- 🖥️ Supercharged DevX
+- 🔧 Modular
+- 🤝 Interoperable
+
+## 📜 Other repositories
+
+- [Starter kit](https://github.com/proto-kit/starter-kit): Our starter kit, which serves as a starting point for any new protokit projects.
+- [Private Airdrop Workshop](https://github.com/proto-kit/private-airdrop-workshop): Sources for the workshop we held, that showcases protokit and its features.
+
+## ▶️ Quickstart
+
+The fastest way to start building with Protokit is to use the [starter kit](https://github.com/proto-kit/starter-kit).
+The starter kit provides a [monorepo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorepo1) aimed at kickstarting application chain development using the Protokit framework.
+
+<Steps>
+### Install dependencies
+
+Before you can start building with Protokit, you need to install the following dependencies:
+
+- [Node.js v18](https://nodejs.org/en)
+- [pnpm](https://pnpm.io)
+- [nvm](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#installing-and-updating)
+
+### Clone the starter kit
+
+```bash
+# Clone the starter kit
+git clone https://github.com/proto-kit/starter-kit my-chain
+cd my-chain
+
+# Ensure you're on the right nodejs version and install dependnecies
+nvm use
+pnpm install
+```
+
+### Run the tests
+
+```bash
+# run and watch tests for the `chain` package
+pnpm run test --filter=chain -- --watchAll
+```
+
+
+## 📚 License
+
+This project is under the Apache License 2.0.
+
+See [LICENSE](LICENSE.md) for more information.
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