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+## 🚧 WARNING: THIS PROJECT IS DEPRECATED 🚧
+
+This project is deprecated. If you are interested in maintaining it, please contact itsdevbear on GitHub or Twitter.
+
+
 <h1 align="center"> Polaris Monorepo ❄️🔭 </h1>
 
 *The project is still work in progress, see the [disclaimer below](#-warning-under-construction-).*
@@ -95,11 +100,4 @@ If you want to help contribute to the framework, check out the [Framework Specs]
 
    ```sh
    make start
-   ```
-
-## 🚧 WARNING: UNDER CONSTRUCTION 🚧
-
-This project is work in progress and subject to frequent changes as we are still working on wiring up the final system.
-It has not been audited for security purposes and should not be used in production yet.
-
-The network will have an Ethereum JSON-RPC server running at `http://localhost:8545` and a Tendermint RPC server running at `http://localhost:26657`.
+   ```
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