Introducing the Golem Deep Dive!

We’ve wrapped up the GitHub Digest series and are starting something new, the Golem Deep Dive. This new series will allow us to go into a broader range of topics other than purely covering the Golem GitHub.

For the start of this new series, we’re going to be covering the features of the Beta V release in more detail. We’ll start with mid-agreement payments and later we’ll go into HTTP auth runtime, local HTTP proxy, and the new events interface.

Up-close in personal with mid-agreement payments

Mid-agreement payments are a new form of payment option between providers and requestors. Initially introduced in Golem Architecture Proposal 3 ( GAP-3), it’s motivated by the fact that requestors may want to run a task that will take quite a long time to complete. Before this improvement, tasks couldn’t be too long without an increased risk to the provider of the requestor disconnecting and the provider losing GLM for their computation time. This was previously mitigated by restricting the maximum task length.

Now, with mid-agreement payment functionality, the task length doesn’t need to be restricted, and the risk to the provider for longer tasks can be removed, with payments occurring gradually as the task is running on their system. In a sense, it’s streaming payments, in contrast to payment in bulk at the end of a task. For providers, it offers peace of mind that a task is being paid in increments. For requestors, this can give an advantage over centralized services such as AWS where users pay their bills in bulk at the end of a month.

It involves payments in set, pre-agreed intervals during the course of an agreement. Allowing providers to receive payments during long computation processes by setting payment_due_date on debit notes in pre-agreed intervals.

It’s also important to note that this type of payment wouldn’t be as economical without the integration of the Polygon Payment driver, introduced in Beta III. This is primarily related to the fees we can achieve with payments on Polygon which are roughly 150 times cheaper than the fees we were able to achieve on ZkSync, the previous default payment driver.

This isn’t to imply that a tradeoff doesn’t exist between the requestor paying fees for each transfer during mid-agreement payments and the benefit to the provider. Requestors will naturally wish to minimize the transaction fees even with the lower fees offered on Polygon. In the future, there’s potential to further lower fees and make this even more economical for the requestor. For those more interested in approaches, a bit of light reading on the Polygon ZKVerse might spark some interest!

If you’d like to learn more about mid-agreement payments, we recommend diving further into the documentation mid-agreement payment section and GAP-3. For questions, join us in the Golem Discord where our team is active in discussion and support.

Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on July 12, 2022.

The GLM Rewards Program for June has concluded! We are thrilled for the continual application development going on in the community! For this month we’re awarding 19,000 GLM to members contributing on a wide range of topics.

The GLM Rewards Program for June has concluded! We are thrilled for the continual application development going on in the community! For this month we’re awarding 19,000 GLM to members contributing on a wide range of topics.

As a reminder, you don’t need any technical skills to participate in the Golem Rewards Program. You can participate by giving us feedback and/or helping to build the community!

GLM Rewards Program Spotlight — gc_listoffers GUI!

We would like to give a special shout-out to krunch3r#2035 (Discord) for his continued work on updating and maintaining his gc_listoffers GUI. This application is a graphical user interface frontend to offer listings on the Golem network. This is not only for requestors, it can be used by providers to view how competitive they are on Golem Network given the prices they’ve selected for their node.

And to any keen & curious developers out there, it’s just as important to update and maintain your application as it is to develop an application. We love both which is why we named it the Application Creation and Maintenance category.

You can find discussions on application development in the #development channel of the Golem Discord.

GLM Rewards Program — June awardees

The individuals we’ll be awarding the GLM Rewards Program slots for June’s round are:

Application Creation and Maintenance (4000 GLM each): jedbrooke#7627 (Discord), The Golden Atlas [16-A]#9943 (Discord), and steljevoor#2785 (Discord)

Task Force General (7000 GLM): krunch3r#2035 (Discord)

Please shoot an email over to contact@golem.network and we’ll follow up with instructions. Or find Mattias in the community Discord ( https://chat.golem.network) and he will be happy to help you directly.

Wrapping Up

That’s everything that we have for June’s GLM Rewards Program. If you’re interested in learning more about this month’s highlights then don’t hesitate to join the community Discord and share your thoughts. Or if the Application Creation and Maintenance category sparks your interest and you’re a developer then we’d love to see you create and share your own application that utilizes the Golem Network.

Remember that it’s easy to get started with the GLM Rewards Program by being active where the Golem community is discussing and interacting. The Golem team is often active in the Discord, /r/GolemProject and /r/GolemTrader on Reddit, Telegram and announcement’s channel. Or create some cool Golem integration on Github and share it with us via email, for ideas check out Awesome Golem. There’s so much potential for anyone to get involved.Since the GLM Rewards Program requires KYC then of course you can opt-out if it’s not for you, we just want to token(ize) our appreciation in the form of GLM tokens.

Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on July 8, 2022.

The GLM Rewards Program for May has concluded! We are thrilled for the continual application development going on in the community! For this month we’re awarding 14,000 GLM to members contributing on a wide range of topics.

The GLM Rewards Program for May has concluded! We are thrilled for the continual application development going on in the community! For this month we’re awarding 14,000 GLM to members contributing on a wide range of topics.

We are also thrilled to see the DAO getting some love from our community. If you have any ideas for major improvements on Golem, bring them to the DAO!

We would like to give a special shout out to krunch3r#2035 (Discord) for his work on gompress. Gompress is a compression tool that compresses files on the provider’s computer, so that compression doesn’t need to occur on a requestor’s machine.

You can find updates for the application in the #development channel of the Golem Discord.

The individuals we’ll be awarding the GLM Rewards Program slots for May’s round are:

Application Creation and Maintenance (4000 GLM each): krunch3r#2035 (Discord), jedbrooke#7627 (Discord), and The Golden Atlas [16-A]#9943 (Discord)

Feedback Masters (1000 GLM each): steljevoor#2785 (Discord) and Nebula#0166 (Discord)

Please shoot an email over to contact@golem.network and we’ll follow up with instructions. Or find Mattias in the community Discord ( https://chat.golem.network) and he will be happy to help you directly.

Wrapping Up

That’s everything that we have for May’s GLM Rewards Program. If you’re interested in learning more about this month’s highlights then don’t hesitate to join the community Discord and share your thoughts. Or if the Application Creation and Maintenance category sparks your interest and you’re a developer then we’d love to see you create and share your own application that utilizes the Golem Network.

Remember that it’s easy to get started with the GLM Rewards Program by being active where the Golem community is discussing and interacting. The Golem team is often active in the Discord, /r/GolemProject and /r/GolemTrader on Reddit, Telegram and announcements channel. Or create some cool Golem integration on Github and share it with us via email, for ideas check out Awesome Golem. There’s so much potential for anyone to get involved.

Since the GLM Rewards Program requires KYC then of course you can opt-out if it’s not for you, we just want to token(ize) our appreciation in the form of GLM tokens.

Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on June 10, 2022.

Are you a JavaScript developer?

Squeeze your brain, create a creative use-case concept, grab GLMs & respect! The total prize pool is 16,000 GLM.

How to take part in the competition?

To submit your yajsapi use case samples:

1. Fork golemfactory/js-api-use cases repository.
2. Create a new directory within the repository.
3. Add a Readme for your submission, describe your use case and (optionally) include samples of pseudo-code.
4. Create a PR and Issue to the golemfactory `js-api-usecases` repo following the issue template.

Once the Issue has been created, your submission will be considered completed.

Issue Creation: ADD YOUR ENTRY

How will your entry be decided?

1. The Community Warriors of Golem will select the top 12 finalists

2. A jury composed of representatives of Golem will select 10 winners

PRIZES

1st place: 4000 GLM

2nd place: 3000 GLM

3rd place: 2000 GLM

4–10th place: 1000 GLM

Total prize pool: 16000 GLM

What use case samples we are looking for?

We are now redesigning/refreshing the yajsapi high-level library, including its programming model, API, etc. We would like to get inspiration from the Golem members, friends, and fans, and it would be great to test our yajsapi vision against use cases proposed by the community. Therefore we’d like to announce an open “call for use-case concepts”.

We would like to kindly invite you to raise your proposals for yajsapi use case samples: for concepts for applications that meet the following criteria:

1. Using Golem network

2. Using yajsapi

3. Work in a browser, in “serverless” model, ie. where a daemon instance is hosted in the cloud (ie. javascript is used to call Yagna low level APIs)…

4. …OR work in the browser (including golem daemon in browser)

5. …OR work in the backend (node.js)

An ideal response/proposal should include:

- Idea name (“buzzword”)

- Summary/abstract of the idea

- A sample scenario/flow of the application, as step-by-step like below:

“someone” does “something” and “something happens”

“someone else” does “something” and “something happens”

- (Optional) Samples of pseudo-code illustrating a proposed/desired API usage scenario

GOLEM JURY:

Mikolaj Barwicki — architect

Paweł Burgchardt — chief product officer

Marcin Gordel — senior software engineer

Phillip Jensen — Tech Support

The Community Warriors will decide and rank their favorite candidates with a sheet that Golem Factory will provide and Golem Factory will decide the winners.

TERMS & CONDITIONS: link

Is your brain full of ideas? Squeeze it NOW!

Issue Creation: ADD YOUR ENTRY

Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on May 23, 2022.

The GLM Rewards Program for April has concluded! We are thrilled for the continual application development going on in the community! For this month we’re awarding 19,500 GLM to members contributing on a wide range of topics.

We would like to remind the community about our Community Builder bi-monthly category. We haven’t had a recipient for this in months, and we would love to see you get involved. To see how to qualify, click here.

We would like to give a special shout out to steljevoor#2785 (Discord) for making our Discord a community bot that predicts gas fees for GNT to GLM migration. As of time of writing, migration fees are $7–8.

You can find updates for the application in the #development channel of the Golem Discord.

The individuals we’ll be awarding the GLM Rewards Program slots for April’s round are:

Feedback Masters (1000 GLM each): krunch3r#2035 (Discord) and SGC#3172 (Discord)

Task Force General (7000 GLM): steljevoor#2785 (Discord)

Super User (2500 GLM): yes (Golem Provider)

Application Creation and Maintenance (4000 GLM each): krunch3r#2035 (Discord) and jedbrooke#7627 (Discord)

We’ve also had 3 participants in our UX research. If you’d like to help out, and earn some GLM, we post opportunities in the Discord Announcements channel.

Please shoot an email over to contact@golem.network and we’ll follow up with instructions. Or find Mattias in the community Discord (https://chat.golem.network) and he will be happy to help you directly. If you are the “ yes” provider, or know who this might be, message us! They have been contributing to the Golem Network and we want to reward them.

Wrapping Up

That’s everything that we have for April’s GLM Rewards Program. If you’re interested in learning more about this month’s highlights then don’t hesitate to join the community Discord and share your thoughts. Or if the Application Creation and Maintenance category sparks your interest and you’re a developer then we’d love to see you create and share your own application that utilizes the Golem Network.

Remember that it’s easy to get started with the GLM Rewards Program by being active where the Golem community is discussing and interacting. The Golem team is often active in the Discord, /r/GolemProject and /r/GolemTrader on Reddit, Telegram and announcements channel. Or create some cool Golem integration on Github and share it with us via email, for ideas check out Awesome Golem. There’s so much potential for anyone to get involved.

Since the GLM Rewards Program requires KYC then of course you can opt-out if it’s not for you, we just want to token(ize) our appreciation in the form of GLM tokens.

Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on May 13, 2022.

The GLM Rewards Program for March has concluded! We absolutely love the application development going on in the community lately!

We would like to remind everyone that we have increased the number of slots available for Application Development and Maintenance on Golem, and we have decreased the rewards for Technical Support.

This new application is being developed by Jedbrooke#7627. He is developing a high performance spigot to find far-out digits of Pi with Bellard’s Formula, which will utilize Golem. His current program is using C++.

You can find updates for the application in the #development channel of the Golem Discord.

The individuals we’ll be awarding the GLM Rewards Program slots for March’s round are:

Feedback Masters (1000 GLM each): jedbrooke#7627 (Discord) and #stelballe#2785 (Discord)

Application Creation and Maintenance (4000 GLM each): krunch3r#2035 (Discord) and jedbrooke#7627 (Discord) and The Golden Atlas [16-A]#9943 (Discord)

Please shoot an email over to contact@golem.network and we’ll follow up with instructions. Or find Mattias in the community Discord (https://chat.golem.network) and he will be happy to help you directly.

Wrapping Up

That’s everything that we have for March’s GLM Rewards Program. If you’re interested in learning more about this month’s highlights then don’t hesitate to join the community Discord and share your thoughts. Or if the Application Creation and Maintenance category sparks your interest and you’re a developer then we’d love to see you create and share your own application that utilizes the Golem Network.

Remember that it’s easy to get started with the GLM Rewards Program by being active where the Golem community is discussing and interacting. The Golem team is often active in the Discord, /r/GolemProject and /r/GolemTrader on Reddit, Telegram and announcements channel. Or create some cool Golem integration on Github and share it with us via email, for ideas check out Awesome Golem. There’s so much potential for anyone to get involved.

Since the GLM Rewards Program requires KYC then of course you can opt-out if it’s not for you, we just want to token(ize) our appreciation in the form of GLM tokens.

Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on April 11, 2022.

Beta V is here with bundled major updates to Yagna and the Yagna Python API, Yapapi! Our last update, Beta IV, made the fees much lower across the board, allowing requestors and providers to run more cost-efficient tasks.

Beta V includes Yagna v0.10.0, codenamed Fishing Rod. This version of Yagna includes the feature of mid-agreement payments, which is a mechanism allowing to pay the provider at set points in time during the duration of an agreement. This is an essential function to enable tasks or services to run for long periods of time. This will also confirm that the requestor is still online at any point after a task is sent, to prevent long-term computations that would never get paid. For more information on the improvements to payments, we’d recommend the intro to payments in the handbook.

Beta V also includes Yapapi v0.9.0. This Yapapi update has a new events interface that allows users to have a cleaner, easier to understand, and easier to debug experience when using events. This new events interface also allows requestors to code an event handler for any selected events. Yapapi also has another update that allows the requestors to easily control and limit the tasks sent to a specific provider.

From a developer and requestor perspective, the local HTTP proxy functionality could be considered the most interesting part of this release. The HTTP proxy feature was introduced briefly in the Beta IV release, with the very basic example covered in the Requestor Walk-through video. Since then the local HTTP proxy module has been added to the recently-created yapapi.contrib as a reusable component, available out of the box to external developers. Think of this as a part of the toolset for developing web applications on Golem.

In the video below, we dive into a short presentation and demonstration for a Golem WebApp on Yapapi’s Service API:

Near the end of this blog we share how you can get rewarded with GLM for trying out and giving feedback on this release.

How do I upgrade or install Golem?

To upgrade or install Golem, both will be the same for a requestor or a provider. If it’s your first time running Golem, we would recommend going through the Golem handbook to learn more about how to interact with the Yagna software.

curl -sSf https://join.golem.network/as-requestor | bash -

Here you can find the section specific to requestors in the handbook and the Golem Python API Reference, which is the main entrypoint of Golem’s high-level API, is available at yapapi.readthedocs.io.

curl -sSf https://join.golem.network/as-provider | bash -

The “ Becoming a provider “ section of the handbook will be useful to you in the scenario that this is your first time getting started as a Golem provider.

Security

As security advice, which we give in almost all releases for both requestors and providers, you should be backing up your keys if you have mainnet tokens. You can back up your keys to your wallet with the following export command (while Golem is running):

yagna id export — file-path=./key.json

If you’re just getting started with Golem for the first time, you want to go to the handbook. It includes the installation steps as a Provider or Requestor, along with explanations and important details such as Command-Line Interface (CLI).

Rewards for individuals giving feedback and developing on the new release

We wanted to remind you all about our GLM Rewards Program. We have up to 20 slots, per month, to receive rewards to, totaling up to a maximum of 25000 GLM per month given away. If you want to participate, join us on Reddit, Twitter, Discord, and Telegram.

We would also like to mention that we are officially changing the “Tech Supporters” GLM allocation and the “Application Creation and Maintenance” GLM allocation. This means that up to 3 individuals, each month, who create and maintain applications using the Golem Network, can earn 4,000 GLM. The Tech Supporter category has been updated to be 500 GLM split between 1–2 tech supporters per month.

For this release in particular, we would love to see individuals trying out the new Yapapi local HTTP proxy functionality and giving us feedback. If you’re a developer, then please consider getting involved in creating your own web application. For this task we can offer both Application Creation and Maintenance and Feedback Master together, with a potential reward of up to 5,500 GLM.

Thank you!

Thank you for reading the Beta V announcement. We look forward to receiving your feedback and learning about your experience. You can reach us via email, Discord, and please keep us in the loop with your latest endeavours when building on Golem, we’d be happy to include applications in Awesome Golem!

Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on April 6, 2022.

The GLM Rewards Program isn’t just about giving back to the community. It’s also about showing recognition for the skills that people have.

Just as a reminder, the Application Creation and Maintenance category is going forward for a long time for the GLM Rewards Program. You (as a developer) don’t need to do anything apart from developing and making the Golem community aware of your development to be considered for this category. All you have to do is create applications on Golem!

GLM Rewards Program Spotlight — List Offers!

This is an application that’s been worked on and maintained for quite some time in the Discord community. Krunk3r works to keep this up-to-date and has regular updates & maintenance, which is really great to see and is part of what the Application Creation and Maintenance category exists.

You can find updates for the application in the #development channel of the Golem Discord. List Offers can almost be considered a bit of a Golem Stats alternative where everything is collected locally.

GLM Rewards Program — February Awardees

The individuals we’ll be awarding the GLM Rewards Program for February’s round are:

Feedback Masters (1000 GLM each): anshuman73#3182 (Discord) and glmforthewin#6756 (Discord)

Application Creation and Maintenance (2250 GLM each): krunch3r#2035 (Discord) and jedbrooke#7627 (Discord)

Task Force General (7000 GLM):
stelballe#2785 (Discord)

Please shoot an email over to contact@golem.network and we’ll follow up with instructions. Or find nzemel_golem in the community Discord (https://chat.golem.network) and he will be happy to help you directly.

Wrapping Up

That’s everything that we have for February’s GLM Rewards Program. If you’re interested in learning more about this month’s highlights then don’t hesitate to join the community Discord and share your thoughts. Or if the Application Creation and Maintenance category sparks your interest and you’re a developer then we’d love to see you create and share your own application that utilizes the Golem Network.

Remember that it’s easy to get started with the GLM Rewards Program by being active where the Golem community is discussing and interacting. The Golem team is often active in the Discord, /r/GolemProject and /r/GolemTrader on Reddit, Telegram and announcements channel. Or create some cool Golem integration on Github and share it with us via email, for ideas check out Awesome Golem. There’s so much potential for anyone to get involved.

Since the GLM Rewards Program requires KYC then of course you can opt-out if it’s not for you, we just want to token(ize) our appreciation in the form of GLM tokens.

Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on March 10, 2022.

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year, that’s right, it’s Working Naked Day!! It’s also time for our monthly GLM Rewards Program!

Just as a reminder, the Application Creation and Maintenance category is going forward for a long time for the GLM Rewards Program. You (as a developer) don’t need to do anything apart from developing and making the Golem community aware of your development to be considered for this category. All you have to do is be creating applications on Golem!

We would also like to note that not enough contributions were made for the reward program’s “Tech Supporters” category, so we decided to withhold that this month. This category awards 1333–4000 GLM per person for 2–6 people.

GLM Rewards Program Spotlight — List Offers!

This is an application that’s been worked on and maintained for quite some time in the Discord community. Krunk3r works to keep this up-to-date and has regular updates+maintainence, which is really great to see and is part of what the Application Creation and Maintenance category exists.

You can find updates for the application in the #development channel of the Golem Discord. List Offers can almost be considered a bit of a Golem Stats alternative where everything is collected locally.

GLM Rewards Program — January Awardees

The individuals we’ll be awarding the GLM Rewards Program for January’s round are:

Feedback Masters (666 GLM each): penfold07#2887 (Discord), The Golden Atlas [16-A]#9943 (Discord) and aldin#2390 (Discord)

Application Creation and Maintenance (2250 GLM): krunch3r#2035 (Discord) and reza#2219 (Discord)

Please shoot an email over to contact@golem.network and we’ll follow up with instructions. Or find Mattias in the community Discord ( https://chat.golem.network) and he will be happy to help you directly.

Wrapping Up

That’s everything that we have for January’s GLM Rewards Program. If you’re interested in learning more about this month’s highlights then don’t hesitate to join the community Discord and share your thoughts. Or if the Application Creation and Maintenance category sparks your interest and you’re a developer then we’d love to see you create and share your own application that utilizes the Golem Network.

Remember that it’s easy to get started with the GLM Rewards Program by being active where the Golem community is discussing and interacting. The Golem team is often active in the Discord, /r/GolemProject and /r/GolemTrader on Reddit, Telegram and announcements channel. Or create some cool Golem integration on Github and share it with us via email, for ideas check out Awesome Golem. There’s so much potential for anyone to get involved.

Since the GLM Rewards Program requires KYC then of course you can opt-out if it’s not for you, we just want to token(ize) our appreciation in the form of GLM tokens.

Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on February 4, 2022.

At the beginning of this month we released the summary of Golem’s achievements and notable events in 2021. During that year there was a large focus on making Yagna ready as a potential backend for applications and having high-level APIs (primarily Yapapi) for developers to work with.

Now it’s time for 2022! For this year we aim to give more power to the developers in their DApp creation. In addition, Thorg has plans to grow his features. In this blog we will cover many of our plans for this year.

Thorg

Thorg began as a small and stubby dwarf coming into the decentralized space. For 2022 he’s looking to grow to being less small but even more stubby, to be able to fit in all the new features in his belly.

The new features for Thorg planned for 2022 include: CPU tasks, gamification, more mining engines, affiliation programme, income & usage dashboard in the Thorg UI, extended customization, and experimental features (e.g. generic GPU task). Look out for updates on Thorg’s Twitter!

Golem as a DApp Stack

People willing to buy services running on Golem value decentralization as a concept, for this reason, we would like to create platform for developers of DApps as our potential target group.

Our goal is to create a convenient environment for DApps with extensive tutorials showing how to leverage the Golem platform. We aim to make these tutorials a smooth and easier way for developers to deploy their applications compared to typical cloud platforms.

For 2021 we’re aware that we’re not there yet, however, we have established low-level advantages and building blocks to give an advantage over centralized platforms. Such as there being no need for a registered account or formal agreement, payments are being settled continuously in contrast to the usual monthly invoicing for monthly services.

We will be slipping this path to Golem as a DApp Stack into two steps:

Part 1 — May 2022
Create SDK for writing simple web applications. We aim to make this to be able to be deployed without the requestor node constantly running in the background.

Imagine visiting a website made specifically for deploying such apps, Yaml deployment descriptor and paying with MetaMask for hosting and deployment, from that point, the application is being run on the Golem Network. Part 1 we will treat as proof-of-concept (PoC) and is slated to be ready around May 2022.

Part 2 — November 2022
The more complicated sections following the PoC will be in the 2nd half of the year. In contrast to Part 1, this will include the ability to create applications integrated with the blockchain. The ServiceAPI SDK will need to be more aligned to that of Web3.

Part 2 will be a bit more interactive with the community where we hope to organize a workshop with DApp creators to get involved in formulating the smoothest experience and onboarding flow. This will involve multiple iterations, and in the end, we’re aiming to have sample DApps, for example:

• Simple decentralized exchange (DEX)
• Lending application
• Oracles
• Gasless forwarder

Challenges

We’re aware of many challenges that we will face, and are currently facing (challenges are a good thing!). We need to create a reputation system both for the benefit of requestors and providers.

1. For the requestors, this would help them to choose the best performing providers for their needs. For the provider, it will make it easier for them to decide which requestors they would like to offer their computational services on the marketplace.
2. We need incoming and outgoing network access (such as access to Geth and/or IPFS nodes) to allow the DApps to be able to flourish. This requires us to enable access from the internet to DApps, with the integration of easy-to-remember names (e.g. DNS or ENS). This will probably also require some sort of firewall or packet filter to help guarantee safety for our providers, at the same time as giving access to the DApp running in containers.
3. Payment architecture so that an application can run without an active requestor. We like to refer to this as “Unstoppable services”.
4. Another of our challenges will be to create persistent storage in the form of a Persistence API. So that we can make the network resistant to loss of data on individual provider nodes or incorrect operations. We’re investigating NoSQL databases or doing some sort of side-chain that can help nodes with synchronization.

Unstoppable Golem Services

Currently, services on Golem (introduced in Beta II) will stop when the requestor stops their Yagna daemon or Golem reaches the 10 hour limit for a task, but we want to go beyond that in 2022. What this would be likely to look like would be with the use of a smart contract, either on Ethereum or potentially Polygon, to create a payment stream for the service to continue to run on the provider. This could require a multi-sig contract where providers can vote on particular actions.

To create this, we’re considering a model where a guild of many providers works together to deliver services that are both safe and reliable. The providers of a guild will form a consensus mechanism where they check each other’s health, verify actions, and vote on the following: including or excluding new providers to the guild, and taking on new tasks. The decision resolving would be on-chain.

The main goal of the guild would be that the service runs, works smoothly, and is resilient to failures on singular provider nodes, in contrast to the current version of Golem which has no resilience to this yet!

Token Visibility

We want a smooth experience with the GLM token. For this, in 2022 we look to focus on visibility on various fronts:

• Oracles for GLM
• Support for GLM on different platforms (e.g. Compound)
• Applications for playing with GLM
• Staking mechanisms (which would likely require a new type of token in the Golem ecosystem)
• More chain integration

This has been a high-level overview of what we’re planning for Yagna, Thorg and the GLM token for the year of 2022. There are some items outside of these main topics that we will give more light to when they’ve solidified.

For those interested in taking a closer look into Golem, the Golem GitHub is a great resource; for example, you can follow the “.Core” projects page to see what the Golem core developers are getting into. In addition, we’ve started working around Golem Amendment Proposal ( GAPs), which we plan to cover more in a future blog.

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Originally published at https://blog.golemproject.net on January 28, 2022.