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 ## 🤝 Contributing
 
-We pride ourselves on building strong connections with contributors at every level. Despite being a young project, Checkmate has already earned 3700+ stars and attracted 45+ contributors from around the globe.
+We pride ourselves on building strong connections with contributors at every level. Despite being a young project, Checkmate has already earned 4.4K+ stars and attracted 50+ contributors from around the globe.
 
 Our repo is starred by employees from **Google, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Tencent, Electronic Arts, ByteDance, JP Morgan Chase, Deloitte, Accenture, Foxconn, Broadcom, China Telecom, Barclays, Capgemini, Wipro, Cloudflare, Dassault Systèmes and NEC**, so don’t hold back — jump in, contribute and learn with us!