Research corpus Storage and networksBLC-STUDY-0055

The Golem Project: crowdfunding white paper

Golem Factory's 2016 paper for a marketplace of spare computer power. Requestors split tasks. Providers run them. A reputation and payment layer is supposed to make the exchange work without a single render farm. The paper is explicit that it was also a crowdfunding document. This page uses the technical design and ignores the sale.

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Authors: Golem Factory
Date: 2016
Publisher: Golem Factory
Version: Source cited by the 2016 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0055
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — Golem white paper
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Author–date

Factory, G. (2016). The Golem Project: crowdfunding white paper. Golem Factory. https://golem.network/doc/Golemwhitepaper.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{golem2016,
  title = {The Golem Project: crowdfunding white paper},
  author = {Golem Factory},
  year = {2016},
  institution = {Golem Factory},
  url = {https://golem.network/doc/Golemwhitepaper.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/golem}
}

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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