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+Web3j: Web3 Java Ethereum Ðapp API
+==================================
+
+[![Documentation Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/web3j/web3j-docs?label=docs)](https://docs.web3j.io/)
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+
+
+Web3j is a lightweight, highly modular, reactive, type safe Java and
+Android library for working with Smart Contracts and integrating with
+clients (nodes) on the Ethereum network:
+
+![image](https://github.com/web3j/web3j-docs/blob/master/docs/img/web3j_network.png)
+
+This allows you to work with the [Ethereum](https://www.ethereum.org/)
+blockchain, without the additional overhead of having to write your own
+integration code for the platform.
+
+The [Java and the Blockchain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea3miXs_P6Y) talk provides
+an overview of blockchain, Ethereum and Web3j.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+-   Complete implementation of Ethereum's
+    [JSON-RPC](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC) client
+    API over HTTP and IPC
+-   Ethereum wallet support
+-   Auto-generation of Java smart contract wrappers to create, deploy,
+    transact with and call smart contracts from native Java code
+    ([Solidity](http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using-the-compiler.html#using-the-commandline-compiler)
+    and
+    [Truffle](https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle-contract-schema)
+    definition formats supported)
+-   Reactive-functional API for working with filters
+-   [Ethereum Name Service (ENS)](https://ens.domains/) support
+-   Support for Parity's
+    [Personal](https://github.com/paritytech/parity/wiki/JSONRPC-personal-module),
+    and Geth's
+    [Personal](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Management-APIs#personal)
+    client APIs
+-   Support for [Infura](https://infura.io/), so you don't have to run
+    an Ethereum client yourself
+-   Comprehensive integration tests demonstrating a number of the above
+    scenarios
+-   Command line tools
+-   Android compatible
+-   Support for JP Morgan's Quorum via
+    [web3j-quorum](https://github.com/web3j/quorum)
+-   Support for [EEA Privacy features as described in EEA
+    documentation](https://entethalliance.org/technical-documents/) and
+    implemented in [Hyperledger
+    Besu](https://besu.hyperledger.org/en/latest/Reference/API-Methods/#eea-methods).
+
+It has five runtime dependencies:
+
+-   [RxJava](https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava) for its
+    reactive-functional API
+-   [OKHttp](https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/index.html)
+    for HTTP connections
+-   [Jackson Core](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core) for fast
+    JSON serialisation/deserialization
+-   [Bouncy Castle](https://www.bouncycastle.org/) ([Spongy
+    Castle](https://rtyley.github.io/spongycastle/) on Android) for
+    crypto
+-   [Jnr-unixsocket](https://github.com/jnr/jnr-unixsocket) for \*nix
+    IPC (not available on Android)
+
+It also uses [JavaPoet](https://github.com/square/javapoet) for
+generating smart contract wrappers.
+
+QuickStart
+---------
+The simplest way to start your journey with Web3j is to create a project.
+We provide this functionality using the [Epirus CLI](https://docs.epirus.io/quickstart/#installation). This latter can be installed as follows:
+
+For Unix:
+
+```shell script
+curl -L get.epirus.io | sh && source ~/.epirus/source.sh
+```
+
+For Windows, in Powershell:
+
+```shell script
+Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/epirus-io/epirus-installer/master/installer.ps1'))
+```
+
+Create a new project by running:
+
+```shell script
+$ epirus new 
+```
+
+Or use our plugins:
+- [Maven](https://github.com/web3j/web3j-maven-plugin) / [Gradle](https://github.com/web3j/web3j-gradle-plugin)
+
+
+#### Please head to the [Web3j Documentation](https://docs.web3j.io) for further instructions on using Web3j.
+
+Maven
+-----
+
+Java:
+
+```
+<dependency>
+  <groupId>org.web3j</groupId>
+  <artifactId>core</artifactId>
+  <version>4.8.1</version>
+</dependency>
+```
+
+Android:
+
+```
+<dependency>
+  <groupId>org.web3j</groupId>
+  <artifactId>core</artifactId>
+  <version>4.6.0-android</version>
+</dependency>
+```
+
+Gradle
+------
+
+Java:
+
+```
+compile ('org.web3j:core:4.7.0')
+```
+
+Android:
+
+```
+compile ('org.web3j:core:4.6.0-android')
+```
+
+Build instructions
+------------------
+
+Web3j includes integration tests for running against a live Ethereum
+client. If you do not have a client running, you can exclude their
+execution as per the below instructions.
+
+To run a full build (excluding integration tests):
+
+``` {.sourceCode .bash}
+$ ./gradlew check
+```
+
+To run the integration tests:
+
+``` {.sourceCode .bash}
+$ ./gradlew  -Pintegration-tests=true :integration-tests:test
+```
+
+Commercial support and training
+-------------------------------
+
+Commercial support and training is available from
+[web3labs.com](https://www.web3labs.com/).
+
+License
+------
+Apache 2.0
+