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Introducing Golem Network |
{% hint style="info" %} Golem is a global, open source decentralized supercomputer that anyone can use. It is made up of the combination power of the users' machines, from PCs to entire data centers. {% endhint %}
Under the hood Golem is a decentralized marketplace where IT resources such as computation hardware are bought and sold. The decentralized network actors have two not excluding profiles:
- Requestor
Has 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 the Golem decentralized infrastructure.
- Provider
Has free IT resources that can be shared with other actors in the network. Those resources are sold in the decentralized market.
Both requestors and providers may be launched on different types of hardware. Those can be laptops, desktop computers, servers, and cloud environments. For the requestors, it is also feasible to be executed on mobile devices.
There are two ways you can benefit from the Golem:
Our decentralized stacks form a unique business value proposition your product can be based on.
{% hint style="info" %} Making Golem based product development being super easy is our core business. {% endhint %}
And there are no licensing fees. The details are described here:
{% page-ref page="tutorials/developing-a-golem-network-based-product.md" %}
If you have Internet-connected hardware that supports running Linux, you can install a Golem Network provider package, share your hardware resources, and have a passive income stream straight to your ethereum address. Just follow this link:
{% page-ref page="tutorials/provider-tutorial.md" %}
{% hint style="info" %} The Golem is open-source software. All the code base is available under the GPL license.
https://github.com/golemfactory/yagna {% endhint %}
This is Golem SDK documentation. Those documentation resources are aimed at developers working on products based on Golem.
The documentation aimed at developers working on developing Golem infrastructure codebase itself is here:
https://golem-network.gitbook.io/golem-internal-documentation-test/