# Umbrella Umbrella is a decentralized and open-source blockchain network focused on creating a user friendly web3 experience. So friendly that it feels like Web2. ## :construction:This Gitbook is under construction please proceed with caution:construction: ## Foreward ### Greetings and Welcome to Umbrella's Docs! #### Blockchains are complex topics. We wrote this trying to ease the process of understanding where Umbrella is coming from. This is a product and company built by true web3 natives. We have felt the pains of building with web3 while also having our whole lives entrenched within it. We may be researchers, product managers, engineers, and academics, but we are web3 users first. We are rallied around the idea that a usable experience is a necessary evolution for web3 to prove its value, but there's no one approaching the problem holistically. This Gitbook acts as Umbrella's whitepaper and is a living document that will evolve and progress alongside our technology. We hope you appreciate what you're about to read and decide to join us on our journey of proving we are the community that will bring the next billion users to an internet that is freer, safer, and more rewarding. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://umbrella-1.gitbook.io/umbrella/umbrella.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.