Cartesi aims to build a general-purpose operating system for decentralized applications, and provide off-chain computing services in the Linux environment without compromising security and decentralization. With this, Cartesi hopes to help build more powerful, easy-to-develop, economical and universal decentralized applications, provide developers with familiar and easy-to-use development tools, and bring a better user experience to the public.

Cartesi (CTSI) is a two-tier infrastructure designed to enable complex and intensive computing to run in a Linux environment outside the blockchain without compromising decentralization and security.
Developers can work in a familiar environment, without artificial constraints, and have access to the development tools they are familiar with.
dApps can temporarily store data on the Cartesi sidechain, which is governed by the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm, without having to constantly communicate with the underlying blockchain.