diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e4afde7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+name: Test & Release
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main ]
+  pull_request:
+
+env:
+  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+  RUSTFLAGS: '-D warnings'
+  CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0
+  RUST_BACKTRACE: short
+
+jobs:
+  clippy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Run clippy
+      run: cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D clippy::all -D clippy::nursery
+
+  cargo-fmt:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Run cargo fmt
+      run: cargo fmt --check
+
+  # there're sometimes warnings, which signal, that the generated doc
+  # won't look as expected, when rendered, and sometimes errors, which will prevent doc from being
+  # generated at release time altogether.
+  cargo-doc:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: run cargo doc
+      run: RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc
+
+  test:
+    needs: cargo-fmt
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        platform: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
+        toolchain: [stable]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: "${{ matrix.toolchain }}"
+      uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
+      with:
+        profile: minimal
+        toolchain: ${{ matrix.toolchain }}
+        default: true
+    - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v1
+    - name: Check with stable features
+      run: cargo check --verbose
+    - name: Run tests with unstable features
+      run: cargo test --verbose
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 66f6543..7e03670 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Currently, the library provides:
 The library is already usable and might be used for rapid prototyping, it lacks some points to make it production-ready:
 - [ ] documentation + examples
 - [ ] integration tests for all API calls
-- [ ] CI/CD
+- [x] CI
 - [x] anyhow -> thiserror
 - [x] ledger is blocking and it's not good in the async runtime
 - [ ] secure keychain is not that straightforward to use