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# Getting Started

- [What is Rome?](https://docs.rome.builders/getting-started/what-is-rome.md): Rome is an EVM execution environment inside Solana. Whatever you build is open to EVM users, Solana users, and users on other chains. Four ways to build.
- [Why Rome?](https://docs.rome.builders/getting-started/why-rome.md): How Rome differs from other EVM-on-Solana approaches — atomic CPI composability, single shared state, and sovereign app chains with custom gas tokens.
- [Architecture](https://docs.rome.builders/getting-started/architecture.md): How Rome's components fit together — EVM execution inside a Solana program.
- [Ecosystem & repos](https://docs.rome.builders/getting-started/ecosystem.md): Every public Rome repo, what it is, and how they compose — the map for navigating the surface.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.rome.builders/getting-started/quickstart.md): Deploy your first Solidity contract on Rome in under 5 minutes.
- [Key Concepts](https://docs.rome.builders/getting-started/key-concepts.md): Essential Solana and Rome EVM terminology for developers — programs, accounts, PDAs, CPI, SPL tokens, and atomic vs. iterative execution.


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