# Welcome to Pinto! (Start Here)

Welcome to the Pinto farm! Pinto is an algorithmic stablecoin balanced by farmers like you. This documentation is organized to make learning about the protocol as intuitive as possible.

The [“Why Pinto”](/why-pinto/why-pinto-overview.md) section of the documentation contains essays explaining the inspiration behind Pinto, contextualizing the protocol in the larger crypto ecosystem, covering progress to date, and discussing future development.

The [“Pinto Mechanics”](/pinto-mechanics/mechanics-overview.md) section of the documentation explains how each component of the protocol contributes to protocol maintenance and why the component is designed the way it is.

The [Pinto whitepaper](http://pinto.money/whitepaper) contains a complete technical spec of the protocol.

The “Pinto PIs” section of the documentation (coming soon) includes descriptions of the improvements made to the protocol since its deployment.

The ["How-To Guides"](/resources/how-to-guides.md) section of the documentation includes “How To” guides detailing how to use the protocol through the [pinto.money](http://pinto.money) user interface.

Pinto is an experiment. Before interacting with Pinto, consider reading the [Disclosures](/appendix/disclosures.md).

### Links <a href="#links" id="links"></a>

* [Mechanics Overview](/pinto-mechanics/mechanics-overview.md)
* [Target Maintenance](/responding-to-state/classifying-state.md)
* [Glossary](/resources/glossary.md)
* [Contracts](/resources/contracts.md)
* [Other Links](/resources/links.md)


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