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Bullets items that aren't sentences don't need periods. Missing hyphens.

README.md

@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ Corda is a decentralised database system in which nodes trust each other as litt
 
 ## Features
 
-* A P2P network of nodes.
-* Smart contracts.
-* Flow framework.
-* "Notary" infrastructure to validate uniqueness of transactions.
-* Written as a platform for distributed apps called CorDapps.
-* Written in [Kotlin](https://kotlinlang.org), targeting the JVM.
+* A P2P network of nodes
+* Smart contracts
+* Flow framework
+* "Notary" infrastructure to validate uniqueness of transactions
+* Written as a platform for distributed apps called CorDapps
+* Written in [Kotlin](https://kotlinlang.org), targeting the JVM
 
 Read our full and planned feature list [here](https://docs.corda.net/inthebox.html).
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Pull requests, experiments, and contributions are encouraged and welcomed.
 The project is supported by R3, a financial industry consortium, which is why it 
 contains some code for financial use cases and why the documentation focuses on finance. The goal is to use it
 to construct a global ledger, simplifying finance and reducing the overheads of banking. But it is run as 
-an open source project and the basic technology of a peer to peer decentralised database may be useful 
+an open source project and the basic technology of a peer-to-peer decentralised database may be useful 
 for many different projects.
 
 ## Contributing