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Official Rust implementation of Golem. Golem is a network of nodes that implement the Golem Network protocol. We provide the default implementation of such a node in the form of the Golem daemon, Yagna.

Golem Network has officially gone on Ethereum Mainnet with theBeta I release in March 2021.

Golem democratizes society’s access to computing power by creating a decentralized platform where anyone can build a variety of applications, request computational resources and/or offer their idle systems in exchange for cryptocurrency tokens (GLM). The actors in this decentralized network can assume one of the three non-exclusive roles:

• RequestorHas a need to use IT resources such as computation hardware. Those resources are purchased in the decentralized market. The actual usage of the resources is backed by Golem's decentralized infrastructure.

• ProviderHas IT resources available that can be shared with other actors in the network. Those resources are sold in the decentralized market.

• DeveloperBuilds applications to run for requestors on the network. Golem's potential goes much beyond a singular application. SeeAwesome Golem for just a taste of the various types of applications that can be built and run on Golem!

For a more in-depth look at how Golem works, head over to ourdocumentation.

• agent/provider - provider agent implementation based on core services.
• core - core services for the open computation marketplace.
• exe-unit - ExeUnit Supervisor - a common part of allruntimes for yagna.
• test-utils - some helpers for testing purposes
• utils - trash bin for all other stuff ;)
• docs - project documentation including analysis and specifications.

The public API rust binding with data model is in theya-client repo.

The public high-level API for Python is inyapapi repo and the JS/TS port is contained in the@golem-sdk/golem-js repo.

We call our runtimeExeUnit. As for now we support

• Light VM -QEMU-based ExeUnit.
• and WASM in two flavours:
  • wasmtime -Wasmtime-based ExeUnit.
  • emscripten -SpiderMonkey-based ExeUnit.

Other ExeUnit types are to come (see below).

Important milestones for Golem development wereBeta I and most recentBeta II. With those releases we have delivered:

• MVP (minimum viable product), though not feature rich yet, it is usable for early adopters
• Clean and easy experience for new and existing users.
• Support for GLM payments (both L1 & L2 on Ethereum Mainnet)
• Production-ready andeasy to maintain code base.
• Modular architecture with all the building blocks being replaceable.
• Small binaries (under 30Mb).
• Documentation and SDK for Golem app developers.

1. Distributed computations
   • Batching
   • Services(PoC stage)
2. Computational environment (aka ExeUnit)
   • Wasm computation
   • Light vm-s
   • Docker on Linux(optional)
   • SGX on Graphene(PoC stage)
3. Payment platform
   • Payments with GLM
   • ERC20 token
   • Layer 1 &Layer 2 transactions
   • Payment matching(optional) (Ability for the invoice issuer to match the payment with Debit Note(s)/Invoice(s)).
4. Transaction system
   • Pay as you go(lem) (see more)
   • Pay per task
   • Pay for dev(optional)
5. Network
   • P2P (Hybrid P2P; in progress)
   • Ability to work behind NAT (Relays; in progress)
6. Verification
   • Verification by redundancy (see also)
   • No verification
   • Verification by humans(optional)

We are actively working on improving Yagna and extending its functionality, check upcoming releases and other news onour blog.