Golem — Building The World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer… On Blockchain

Why should render farms be afraid of Golem?

In this post I’ll compare costs of computing performed in different environments and I’ll try to convince you that Golem is a very competitive solution.

GNT Crowdfunding Contract in Pictures

There are so many token sales these days that it must be pretty easy to implement a crowdfunding contract, right? Well, not really. Unfortunately we still lack established design patterns and tested ways of implementing a secure crowdfunding contract. What’s more…

What can Golem do for you?

A review of several obvious (and less obvious) use cases for decentralized distributed computing

Decentralized distributed computing is a new field that Golem is pioneering, for the first time providing everyone access to distributed computing resources…

Golem project: December update

So, it’s been about a month and a half since our 29-minute crowdfunding campaign, and we’ve been heads-down coding & planning ever since (well, after the champagne fueled celebrations).

The Golem Crowdfunding — Summary

On November 11, while the rest of our nation was celebrating National Independence Day in Poland, the entire Golem team was at their computers, hard at work.

After weeks of planning, chatting with bloggers, communicating with the community, and…

Golem architecture

So, how exactly does Golem work? To get an idea, let’s go through the computing task process.

Everything begins when a requestor needs to compute a task using the Golem network. It may be a CGI artist who has just finished working on an animation and wants to render it…

Golem Crowdfunding Starts November 11

We are pleased to formally announce that Golem’s crowdfunding will start on 11th November, at approximately 3 pm GMT*. It will last for three weeks, or until the maximum cap of 820,000 ETH is reached. The contract will be deployed to Ethereum mainnet and Its…

Why Ethereum?

The Golem Project is about creating a technology enabling users to trade idle time of their computers. However, this requires a mean for requestors (those seeking more computing power) to transfer remuneration to providers (those providing spare computing power) in exchange for their services. We have…