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# Introduction

## Getting started

Start developing your PAD application in three steps:

1. Join our waitlist at <https://www.pad.tech/>
2. Stay tuned and receive an Operator API key from us
3. Create your own PAD instance and integrate it into your app!

## Base URL

`https://api.pad.tech`

The only available API version is currently `v0`.

Check out the PAD API endpoint descriptions [here](/api_desc.md).