Symbol Documentation

Browse the documentation to start integrating blockchain technology into your project.

Symbol is built for developers

Symbol is a feature-rich development platform that lets you build blockchain projects faster and more efficiently, so you can exceed expectations. Symbol uses familiar APIs so you can easily interface with your existing platform. This means you can create a variety of architectural solutions with lightweight code efficiently, in any programming language.

Symbol provides access to both public and private blockchains, individually or as a hybrid, providing options to best suit your project's needs.

Getting Started

Connect and combine Symbol's built-in features to architect your blockchain solution.

• What is Symbol?
• Setting up your workstation
• Built-in features
• Protocol

Featured Guides

Learn how to use the software development kits and tools with the following step-by-step implementation examples.

• How to create an account
• How to send a transaction
• How to create a mosaic
• How to register a namespace
• How to create a multisig account
• How to run a private test network
• More guides

Reference Documentation

Surf Symbol's reference documentation to learn more about our APIs, SDKs, CLIs, and Wallets.

• Client
• REST API
• Software Development Kits
• Command-line Interface
• Wallets

Contributing to Symbol

Symbol is an open-source project. Discover how our community is organized, and get started participating:

• Reach our community joining the official Discord.
• Check the contributing guidelines to propose changes.
• Follow the development updates on Twitter.
  • Symbol Official account
  • The Symbol Syndicate
• Explore our GitHub repositories.

License

Copyright (c) 2018-present NEM Licensed under the Apache License 2.0