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People donate because they want to help bring about the world you envision. They believe in your vision and wish to make a statement about it. Consider this: much of our daily consumption is about expressing our beliefs, not just consumption itself. The same principle applies to donations.

We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership between Octant and Diva Staking, uniting our efforts to decentralize Ethereum's staking landscape

The Octant community has allocated a total of 330.25 ETH in rewards and in the process supported 19 high-impact public goods projects.

Now’s your chance to determine the distribution of your user rewards and champion the causes you hold dear.

We’re excited to unveil the Octant Community Project Submission Proposal Process. This process streamlines funding, ensuring that projects aligned with our mission receive the support they deserve.

In this post, we would like to present an overview of the Octant locking mechanism and share some implementation details

We are really excited to introduce you all to Octant and invite you to take part in this thrilling initiative.

Epoch Zero results are in! Together, we distributed $1M worth of ETH among 10 high-impact web3 public goods projects.

We’re happy to announce Octant’s Epoch Zero: a special pre-launch event for a new project funded and developed by Golem Foundation.

As we get stuck into 2023, let's take a quick look at what we were up to at Golem Foundation over the last year and what developments the year of 2022 brought to our project. We'd also like to show you what we're looking forward to in the next couple of months and what 2023 might have in store for us.

When creating, gaining other perspectives than your own can be extremely important. Especially if an idea is ambitious - everyone needs some grounding. That's why with working on Wildland and our novel decentralized governance framework - the User-Defined Organization - we've been reaching out to experts in the field of decentralized tech and governance.

Some of the best advice I’ve gotten in the decentralised technology space is to “do what is intellectually honest and intuitively right”. To me, this is about knowing your why, and sticking to it.

Ever since we started work on Wildland the User-Defined Organization (or UDO for short) - our decentralized governance framework which aims to tie a platform's governance to its usage, we knew we wanted to challenge our ideas and get as much feedback on them as possible.

We’re really excited to see the first implementation of the UDO come to life in Wildland, but before this can happen, we need to make sure to address any possible problems, challenges and test our approach.

There are certain properties that are binary - a lamp is either on or off, a ball is either still or in motion. Other properties exist along a spectrum. An industry like web3 certainly has pockets that are inclusive of many perspectives, where diverse backgrounds and experiences are represented. It also has pockets that are homogenous and siloed. Diversity is not a static state and for the most part, it doesn't happen by accident.

I believe the real power of web3 lies in its ability to create abundance for those who provide value for society. It’s time to retire old systems that rely on sacrifice to provide for our collective human needs. Clean air, clean water, infrastructure like roads & bridges, free childcare, education, taking care of the less fortunate… These are all public goods that provide value to our lives yet when governments fail to provide them, we depend on non-profits to altruistically provide for the greater good.

In an ideal world, privacy is not something that individuals need to consciously choose. With the right infrastructure and incentives, I would hope that future blockchain ecosystems will have privacy as a given. Zero-knowledge proofs seem to be a very promising technology for transferring information without compromising privacy. We are seeing some early examples of this being used, e.g. in the DarkForest game. It remains to be seen how zero-knowledge proofs can be baked into core blockchain design, and what is sacrificed along the way.

Apps are just conversations between people and machines. Machines need code, but people need language, and typography is the carrier for language. If we only care about the code but not the language, we're just making apps for machines, which seems fairly pointless.

We need to make Web3 itself and Web3 education more accessible. Because we don't want people to be left behind in this revolution.

If web3 is to deliver a real alternative to the current model of the internet where power accrues to investors and users are treated as bits in a revenue stream, then the governance modes of decentralized platforms should prioritize the users’ interest and provide them with effective “voice and exit” opportunities.

Coupling economic interests and voting power turns governance decisions into auctions and incentivizes voters to care mostly about the value of the governance tokens. Teams and communities who want to avoid the fate of being “decentralized in name only” should therefore look to other governance modes.

Some people say: “I'm saving money now, and I want to compound the investments that I've made at the moment, and then give when I'm older, at a later date.” A big part of the reason why push back very strongly against this approach, is connected to a concept we have in behavioural economics: that people can be sophisticates and naifs. You have to ask: how good am I at projecting my future self and understanding what that future self will do?

I think we all feel that we are in some kind of trap and trying to look at the future by offering slightly different visions. I have a feeling that today Facebook is more challenged by the ideas of people who want to strengthen the public sphere, who want to socialize the Internet, and if Web3 is going to be part of a bigger plan for that, then welcome on board!

Explore what’s next for Wildland - from building a user-friendly replacement for popular cloud storage services, a marketplace and integrations, to developing a new model of decentralized governance.

Probably the biggest misconception about decentralists is that we want no rules or laws at all. We just want to invite people to exit monolithic systems for new, improved systems.

Accessibility isn’t a conversation I’ve had with people within the web3 and blockchain community which is shocking. If the main goal is to boost adoption and use crypto everyday why are we not having conversations on accessibility and building better interfaces?

On this day, while remembering Lem and his work, let us celebrate all the minds behind science fiction and all the futures that they have imagined

Over the past four months, I have been an intern at Golem Foundation and working on the Wildland client. As the summer comes to a close, I took some time to look back on the main lessons and experiences during my time on the team.

Wildland seeks to offer a viable alternative to bundled, closed services. But why is such a change so important in the first place? Our current digital environment is far from a wild, freely expanding forest of knowledge, but we see an opportunity for change by targeting an array of interlinked challenges.

It’s true, we do eat our own dog food. We have never shied away from the fact that we are building Wildland for ourselves and people like us. So you may be wondering now how we are using Wildland internally. The answer is, for business and pleasure, of course.

On the 24th of June, despite some pretty wild weather with a thunderstorm hanging in the air, around 30 people gathered at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw for Wildland’s 0.1 Release Meetup.

First release of the Wildland client reference implementation!

Lack of privacy is not the only problem we should associate with Big Tech dominance over our digital lives.

We are looking for a skilled public communicator, community infiltrator, and knowledgeable digital sovereignty evangelist, as an evangelist for Wildland.

On September 25, 2020, the Golem Foundation had its first live event – the WildCon1, an internal (but open to the public) seminar on Wildland.

We are excited to present the paper outlining the project’s high-level rationale, as well as some nuts and bolts of this initiative.

It’s time to start another exciting chapter in the history of Golem.