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-# gradido
-Gradido as Software
+# Gradido
+
+Healthy money for a healthy world
+
+![logo](https://gradido.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/gradido_logo_web.png)
+
+The Gradido model can create global prosperity and peace
+The Corona crisis has fundamentally changed our world within a very short time.
+The dominant financial system threatens to fail around the globe, followed by mass insolvencies, record unemployment and abject poverty. Only with a sustainable new monetary system can humanity master these challenges of the 21st century. The Gradido Academy for Bionic Economy has developed such a system.
+
+## Software requirements
+
+Currently we only support `docker` as environment to rull all services, since many different programming languages ad frameworks are used.
+
+- [docker](https://www.docker.com/)
+
+## How to run?
+
+`docker-compose up`
+
+## Useful Links
+
+- [Gradido.net](https://gradido.net/)
+- [Discord](https://discord.gg/kA3zBAKQDC)
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