tornado-core/README.md

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# Tornado Core (@tornado/core)

🛠 An SDK for building applications on top of [Privacy Pools](https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomerniv/2023/09/07/privacy-pools-bridging-the-gap-between-blockchain-and-regulatory-compliance)

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### About Tornado Core

Tornado Core is a modern building block for Privacy Pools to build anything from custom UI or CLI tools

 + Written in [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)

 + Built on top of modern tech stacks like [Ethers.js V6](https://docs.ethers.org/v6/) or [TypeChain](https://github.com/dethcrypto/TypeChain)

 + Creates resource heavy Merkle Trees on a separate thread using Web Workers / Worker Threads

 + Resilient API requests made by [cross-fetch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/cross-fetch) and retries, especially for Tor Users

 + Modular design