# Let's get started!

**URL:** <https://talk.harmony.one/t/lets-get-started/35>\
**Category:** Protocol\
**Created:** [December 1, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/lets-get-started/35 "2018-12-01T18:41:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Gavin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/gavin/32/131_2.png) [@Gavin](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Gavin)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/lets-get-started/35/1 "2018-12-01T18:41:00Z")

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Check out this overview of Harmony’s architecture:

> **[Sharding Consensus and Contracts](https://medium.com/harmony-one/sharding-consensus-and-contracts-9f2461ea4559)**
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> Harmony aims to bring the best research results to production. We’re hiring research engineers. Here’re our timeline and topics of…

These are the two research papers behind the consensus protocol we’ve adopted:  
Omniledger: [https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/406.pdf](https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/406.pdf)  
Rapidchain: [https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/460.pdf](https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/460.pdf)

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**Author:** ![Gavin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/gavin/32/131_2.png) [@Gavin](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Gavin)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/lets-get-started/35/2 "2018-12-01T18:41:24Z")

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**Author:** ![Jacksteroo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/jacksteroo/32/15609_2.png) [@Jacksteroo](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Jacksteroo)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/lets-get-started/35/3 "2022-06-08T02:14:30Z")

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