Choose Your Path

What you’ll get here

four doors, one per audience. Pick yours, and we’ll hand you the exact next three pages — no wandering.

You don’t need the whole book. You need your slice of it. Find the card that sounds like you.

flowchart TD
    Start["What do you want<br/>to do?"]
    Start --> B["🛠️ Build"]
    Start --> C["💰 Evaluate / allocate capital"]
    Start --> N["🖥️ Run a node"]
    Start --> Q["🧭 Just curious"]

    B --> Bgo["Build your first Smart App"]
    C --> Cgo["Trustless core + tokenomics"]
    N --> Ngo["Run a node: after mainnet"]
    Q --> Qgo["Mental model + concepts"]

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🛠️ I want to build

You’re a developer. You want cross-chain features in your product without becoming a cryptographer or maintaining seven integrations.

Start here:

Build Your First Smart AppThe hands-on path.

SDK: Getting Started@hsuite/smart-engines-sdk and the zero-config entrypoint.

Smart AgentsGive an autonomous agent its own keys, rules, and on-chain identity.

🧠 For Normies

A Smart App is your application running on the Smart Engines BaaS — auth, database, storage, and cross-chain operations, without you wiring up any blockchain by hand.

The fastest possible start with the SDK:

import { BaasClient } from '@hsuite/smart-engines-sdk';

// Zero-config: resolves the testnet gateway and bootstraps discovery for you.
const baas = await BaasClient.connectToCluster({ network: 'testnet' });

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💰 I’m evaluating security or allocating capital

You’re assessing whether this is safe to build a treasury, a fund, or an enterprise integration on. You care about custody, auditability, and economics.

Start here:

The Trustless CoreWhy no machine ever holds an entity's whole key.

Security ConceptsThreshold signing, DKG, post-quantum, public rules.

Tokenomics OverviewHSUITE, fees, and incentives.

🧠 For Normies

The pitch to scrutinize: keys are created via DKG and never assembled, not even to sign, on-chain authority is native multisig (after genesis, no single key controls any entity), and the rulebook is public on Hedera HCS. This page exists so you can verify those claims, not just take them.

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🖥️ I want to run a node

You want to operate validator, host, or gateway infrastructure and participate in the network. The network opens to node runners after mainnet goes live and the bootstrap and genesis are secured.

Start here:

Run a nodeThe three roles, the stake, and how joining will work.

The Mental ModelUnderstand the three tiers before you run one.

Tokenomics OverviewStaking, fees, and rewards for operators.

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🧭 I’m just curious

You want to understand what this is and why it’s different before committing to anything.

Start here:

What Is Smart EnginesThe elevator pitch and vision.

The Mental ModelThe whole platform in five minutes.

ConceptsThe deeper ideas, one at a time.

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Still not sure? Just build something.

The fastest way to understand a platform is to make it do something. Whatever brought you here, the best next move is the Smart App tutorial: read it now, and run it once the testnet opens to developers after the security audit.

👉 Build Your First Smart App

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Next steps

Build Your First Smart AppBuilders.

The Trustless CoreCapital / enterprise.

Run a nodeNode runners.

What Is Smart EnginesCurious.