# Start here

- [REAL overview](/docs): Understand the systems behind REAL and where to begin.
- [How REAL fits together](/docs/architecture): How REAL's three layers coordinate around a shared financial record.
- Real Chain: Network and execution
  - [Real Chain](/docs/chain): A dedicated EVM network for the full lifecycle of financial assets.
  - [Network architecture](/docs/chain/architecture): How REAL's Avalanche L1 reaches consensus, executes transactions, and manages validators.
  - [Networks and connectivity](/docs/chain/networks): Connect to REAL Testnet and distinguish network access from application permission.
  - [Add Real Testnet to your wallet](/docs/chain/wallet-setup): Connect MetaMask, Rabby, or Core using the Real Testnet network settings.
  - [Build an application](/docs/chain/build): Discover testnet configuration, read a token, and simulate a transfer with viem.
- Tokenization Engine: Assets and identity
  - [Tokenization Engine](/docs/tokenization): Create and operate permissioned assets with reusable identity and issuer-controlled access.

  - **Concepts**
  - [Token suites](/docs/tokenization/token-suites): How a group of contracts manages an asset token and its rules.
  - [Identity and eligibility](/docs/tokenization/identity): How reusable identities, trusted claims, and transfer rules work together.
  - [Asset information and documents](/docs/tokenization/asset-information): Connect the token to an issuer, an asset description, and verifiable documents.

  - **Workflows**
  - [Issuer workflow](/docs/tokenization/issuer-workflow): From an issuer workspace to an asset with admitted investors and ongoing operations.
  - [Investor workflow](/docs/tokenization/investor-workflow): Understand verification, asset admission, subscriptions, and wallet-held tokens.
  - [Token operations](/docs/tokenization/operations): The actions authorized issuers and agents use to manage a token's lifecycle.

  - **Markets**
  - [Offerings and subscriptions](/docs/tokenization/offerings): How primary issuance coordinates allocations, agreements, payments, and token delivery.
  - [Secondary trading](/docs/tokenization/secondary-trading): How eligible holders exchange asset tokens through signed sell orders.

  - **Integration**
  - [Integration overview](/docs/tokenization/integration): How applications coordinate wallet authority, platform workflows, and on-chain state.
- Business Validator Protocol: Roles and accountability
  - [Business Validator Protocol](/docs/business-validators): Make asset servicing, risk assessment, and insurance accountable through stake and enforceable rules.

  - **Participation**
  - [Become a Business Validator](/docs/business-validators/become-a-validator): Prepare an operator, capital plan, and service process before accepting asset obligations.
  - [Validator roles](/docs/business-validators/roles): Choose the responsibility your organization will take on.
  - [Stake and lifecycle](/docs/business-validators/lifecycle): How collateral capacity, validator status, and outstanding obligations govern participation.
  - [Treasury delegation](/docs/business-validators/delegation): Controlled bootstrap collateral with an operator buy-out path.

  - **Roles**
  - [Tokenization Validator](/docs/business-validators/tokenization-validator): Register an asset's protocol record and keep it accurate throughout its lifecycle.
  - [Scoring Validator](/docs/business-validators/scoring): Evaluate probability estimates against scheduled-payment outcomes over a defined horizon.
  - [Insurance Validator](/docs/business-validators/settlement): How scheduled payments become protocol records and covered shortfalls become claims.

  - **Accountability**
  - [Penalties and disputes](/docs/business-validators/mechanisms): Separate immediate restrictions, provisional penalties, and final enforcement outcomes.
  - [Rewards](/docs/business-validators/rewards): How funded reward epochs allocate incentives across roles and eligible validators.
  - [Exit and wind-down](/docs/business-validators/wind-down): End participation while accounting for the obligations left behind.

  - **Integration**
  - [Integration and monitoring](/docs/business-validators/integration): Read protocol state, submit authorized actions, and track obligations through final resolution.

  - **Reference**
  - [Protocol parameters](/docs/business-validators/parameters): Verified testnet collateral, timing, rewards, and oracle settings.
  - [Worked examples](/docs/business-validators/examples): Calculate collateral, reward allocation, and a scoring result with explicit assumptions.
- Resources: Shared reference
  - [Resources](/docs/resources): Shared terminology and documentation coverage.
  - [Trust model and admin powers](/docs/resources/trust-model): Who can change the network, protocol, token rules, and identity records.
  - [Security and audits](/docs/resources/security-and-audits): Evidence of review, its scope, and remaining gaps.
  - [Glossary](/docs/resources/glossary): Terms used across the network, asset, and accountability layers.
  - [Documentation status](/docs/resources/documentation-status): Verified coverage, evidence dates, and remaining gaps.
  - [Testnet contract reference](/docs/resources/testnet-contracts): Addresses and control observations verified on Real Testnet.