# Stellarium

> Documentation for Stellarium, a decentralized, programmable API network.

- [What is Stellarium?](https://docs.stellarium.sh/index.md): Stellarium is a decentralized, programmable API network where anyone can host an API and get paid for it.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.stellarium.sh/quickstart.md): Run a Stellarium node, register a resource, and call it with RequestScript.
- [Nodes, resources, and peers](https://docs.stellarium.sh/concepts/network.md): How Stellarium nodes discover each other and route RequestScript requests to the resources they need.
- [Payments](https://docs.stellarium.sh/concepts/payments.md): How paid resources are priced, authorized with signed vouchers, and settled on Solana through an escrow.
- [Configuration](https://docs.stellarium.sh/node/configuration.md): Start options and environment variables for a stellarium-ts node.
- [HTTP API](https://docs.stellarium.sh/node/http-api.md): Routes exposed by a stellarium-ts node. All routes are mounted at /v1.
- [Run a local network](https://docs.stellarium.sh/node/local-network.md): Run the operator, escrow program, and a caller and provider node on a local Solana validator to test paid requests end to end.
- [Get involved](https://docs.stellarium.sh/community/contributing.md): Where the Stellarium community meets and the ways you can help build the network.
- [Proposals and governance](https://docs.stellarium.sh/community/proposals.md): How to propose changes to Stellarium and RequestScript with a Stellarium Improvement Proposal.

## Optional

- [Whitepaper](https://github.com/qualletio/SIPs/blob/main/WHITEPAPER.md)
- [RequestScript](https://github.com/qualletio/requestscript-js)


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