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title: Stacks documentation
description: Write Clarity smart contracts, build apps, and starting mining with the Stacks blockchain
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## Understand Stacks

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| /understand-stacks/overview, /understand-stacks/proof-of-transfer, /understand-stacks/testnet

## Write smart contracts

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| /write-smart-contracts/overview, /write-smart-contracts/hello-world-tutorial

## Build apps

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| /build-apps/guides/authentication, /build-apps/guides/transaction-signing, /build-apps/guides/data-storage

## Start mining

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| /start-mining/mainnet, /start-mining/testnet, /understand-stacks/running-testnet-node

## Ecosystem

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| /ecosystem/overview, /ecosystem/stacks-token, /ecosystem/contributing