# Elrond API

Elrond is a distributed transactional computation protocol which relies on a sharded state architecture and a secure Proof of Stake consensus mechanism. One of Elrond's advantages is that it runs on average computers due to its scalable architecture and it doesn't require extensive hardware resources.

By employing *sharding*, a method of parallelizing data & transactions processing, Elrond’s performance will scale up with the number of computers joining the network, reaching more than 100.000 transactions per second while growing increasingly decentralized.

### Bware Labs supported networks

* Mainnet
* Testnet

### **Available endpoint types on BwareLabs and Elrond**

* Rest API;

### Official documentation

<https://docs.elrond.com/>


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