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Golem Ecosystem Fund: One Year In - Highlights, Allocations, and What’s Next

GEF has supported Golem, Ethereum, and Web3 for over a year! We've learned and are evolving the Fund. New goals, tracks, and focus areas are coming soon. Get ready!

Radoslaw Kaczmarek

• 3 min read

Since the Golem Ecosystem Fund (GEF) was launched over one year ago, it has supported projects across multiple layers of decentralization - from the Golem Network itself to the broader Ethereum and Web3 ecosystems.

Throughout this journey, our team has been continuously learning how to better structure the Ecosystem Fund so that it delivers lasting value - to builders, researchers, and users alike. As GEF evolves, we’ll soon share more about its new goals, dedicated tracks, and focus areas.

Here’s a look back at some of the achievements of the Golem Ecosystem Fund projects to date 👇

🌍 Projects Supported by the Golem Ecosystem Fund

Web3 Pi

🔗 Website | GEF Profile | Discord

Web3 Pi makes running a full Ethereum node on Raspberry Pi easy, secure, and efficient - empowering anyone to help decentralize Ethereum.

Progress:
✅ 12 of 15 milestones completed, including:

Web3 Pi demonstrates that Ethereum can be lightweight, accessible, and secure - even on small, energy-efficient devices.

Satori Network

🔗 Website | GEF Profile | Discord

Satori is building a decentralized zero-knowledge (ZK) proving platform with a pilot integration directly with the Golem Network to scale distributed proving.

✅ Delivered milestones:

  • Gateway: Golem node orchestration
  • Worker: Distributed live ZK proving
  • User Defined Programs: WASM circuits
  • Dashboard: Real-time visibility
  • Mainnet Integration: Full stack running on Golem Network

Next: a pilot campaign using hundreds of CPUs for real ZK workloads - showing that scalable proving doesn’t need centralized or GPU-only infra.

Keccak Optimization (Research Track)

A research collaboration exploring cheaper, scalable proving of Keccak-256 within ZK systems - a key step toward more efficient Ethereum zk-rollups.

✅ Milestones include:

  • Whitepaper: GKR-for-Keccak approach under vlayer & Golem
  • Blog post & explainer video which will be released in about 2 weeks
  • Golem × vlayer hackathons

Team is going to present their findings at Verifiable Summit 2026.

Goal: enable faster zk-proofs, cheaper rollups, and progress toward stateless Ethereum.

Clan

🔗 Website | GEF Profile | Discord

Clan is a peer-to-peer machine management framework simplifying how apps and services are deployed, discovered, and managed - from cloud to edge - without central servers or complex DevOps tooling.Built on NixOS, Clan makes infrastructure reproducible, cooperative, and accessible to all.

Progress:
✅ 4 milestones delivered.

Upcoming milestones will include a stable API and SDK, macOS fleet management, a Python API, and a full graphical interface. Clan also uses Golem DB and Golem Network for its own infrastructure - a great example of ecosystem synergy.

L3 Block Explorer

🔗 GEF Profile | Discord | GitHub

Developed by Neti, the L3 Block Explorer provides visibility into Golem DB Layer 3 DB-Chains, making structured on-chain data transparent and developer-friendly.

Progress:
✅ 3 of 5 milestones completed.
Live on Kaolin testnet, it offers:

Next steps include multi-chain support and advanced analytics tools

Vanity Market

🔗 Website | GEF Profile | GitHub | Discord

Vanity Market is a decentralized vanity address generator using Golem’s distributed CPU/GPU power to create custom Ethereum addresses (e.g., 0xDEADBEEF…).

✅ Delivered:

  • Open-source CLI with CUDA acceleration
  • Provider reputation model
  • Support for complex patterns (prefix + postfix)

By distributing compute across Golem, Vanity Market makes on-chain identity more personal, efficient, and verifiable.

🪄 What’s Next

The Golem Ecosystem Fund continues to empower open innovation across Golem Network, Golem DB, Ethereum, and the broader Web3 ecosystem.

  • 💸 We’ll soon release allocated funds to ongoing projects.
  • 🚀 We’re opening new application rounds with dedicated tracks to support targeted areas of development.
  • 🪙 Stay tuned for more details - to be announced in the coming weeks

Visit ecosystem.golem.network and join the discussion at chat.golem.network for the latest updates.

🌟 Thank You

To all builders, researchers, and contributors in the Golem Ecosystem Fund - your work is helping shape a more open, verifiable, and decentralized future. Let’s keep building.