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 These collaborations reflect work completed prior to the Malachite team joining Circle.
 
+## Project scope
+
+Malachite focuses on correctness and safety of core logic.
+It is not intended to be a full application framework, but a foundation
+for building and verifying critical components.
+
+
 ## License
 
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