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 - [Architecture](architecture.md): Overview of charon cluster and node architecture
 - [Project Structure](structure.md): Project folder structure
 - [Branching and Release Model](branching.md): Git branching and release model
-- [Go Guidelines](goguidelines.md): Guidelines and principals relating to go development
+- [Go Guidelines](goguidelines.md): Guidelines and principles relating to go development
 - [Contributing](contributing.md): How to contribute to charon; githooks, PR templates, etc.
 - [Distributed Key Generation](dkg.md): How charon can create distributed validator key shares remotely from a cluster-definition file.
 - [Consensus](consensus.md): How charon handles various consensus protocols.