Salad.com and Golem Network Partner to Integrate Web2 Workloads with Decentralized Infrastructure
Zug, Switzerland, January 13th, 2026, Chainwire
Salad.com, an established GPU Cloud Platform powered by globally distributed infrastructure, and Golem Network, one of the first decentralized computing protocols, have announced a partnership. This collaboration will evaluate the feasibility of meeting Salad’s existing computational demand using Golem’s Web3 infrastructure.
As part of an engineering test, Salad first intends to utilize Golem’s permissionless execution layer to ‘mirror’ and map a portion of its existing commercial activity, spanning the range of Salad’s cloud computing products and services. This partnership serves as a functional test designed to verify that DePIN protocols, in this case Golem, can support the breadth of customer and workload profiles currently utilizing Salad’s cloud infrastructure.
Today, Salad relies on a stack of centralized services for facilitating customer payments and the delivery of rewards to its network of infrastructure providers. With a global footprint of both customers and compute providers, Salad’s software stack of traditional payment processors, usage-based billing platforms and reward suppliers represents significant complexity and operational overhead. Crypto payments and a permissionless compute-execution layer, similar to that offered by Golem Network, may deliver significant efficiency gains for Salad’s products and services.
Bob Miles, CEO of salad.com, added: “By pairing Salad’s globally distributed infrastructure with Golem’s decentralized compute layer, we’re exploring how customer workloads, revenue, and our extensive rewards program can flow through DePIN. I first read the Golem whitepaper in 2017, and this collaboration reflects a shared vision of making advanced computational power more accessible by enabling millions of individuals to contribute underutilized devices.
This initial test phase aims to demonstrate whether Web3 can enhance centralized cloud platforms with greater efficiency and openness, while helping us understand how Salad’s margin profile could fit into a sustainable tokenomics model as we scale mirrored traffic through Golem Network.”
This collaboration seeks to validate how a traditional Web2 business like Salad can integrate with a permissionless and decentralized protocol, such as the Golem Network. The test will evaluate core components, including the decentralized marketplace and settlement infrastructure, and how they could offer Salad a more cost-efficient and transparent platform for value exchange.
Paweł Burgchardt, CPO of Golem Network, commented: “Our collaboration with Salad allows us to explore how Golem’s protocol can integrate with complementary marketplaces for computational resources. The insights gained from this experiment will help us refine Golem’s SDK and strengthen support for future integrations.”
Seeing the opportunities offered by Web3 mature, Salad began evaluating various DePIN protocols in Q3 2025. Golem Network offered the closest match to Salad’s existing platform, and initial tests have delivered significant insights for Salad’s engineering team.
Kyle Dodson, Salad’s CTO, shares: “The architecture provided by Golem, connecting compute requestors and compute providers via a decentralized protocol, has significant overlap with how Salad’s platform operates today. As Salad works towards supporting a frequently requested feature, crypto payments, I am excited to collaborate with the Golem team to further enhance the efficiency of both cost and the compute-orchestration of our platform.”
Salad and Golem Network share a similar goal of making accelerated computational power more widely accessible. Both platforms support a range of workload profiles, from in silico drug-discovery simulations, AI inference, to 3D rendering.
This partnership aims to show how traditionally separate Web2 and Web3-based marketplaces can be integrated, enabling participants to benefit from complementary capabilities while laying the groundwork for future resource-sharing across currently siloed networks.
As the Salad and Golem team continue working together on this engineering test, more detailed engineering and product updates will be announced and available at salad.com and golem.network.
About Golem
Golem Network is an open-source, decentralized network, offering a marketplace for computational resources and services. Through its permissionless protocol, Golem enables anyone to join by either allocating their resources to the Network or using them in exchange for GLM token.
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About Salad.com
Salad is the world’s largest cloud platform powered by globally distributed infrastructure. Operating for 8 years, Salad supports a wide range of customers from AI Startups to listed Fortune 500 Enterprise Organisations. Both datacenters and individuals can share latent computational resources with Salad’s application, turning idle hardware into meaningful rewards. With thousands of existing customers running production workloads across tens of thousands of machines, Salad powers cutting-edge compute applications for far less than hyperscale providers.
Website: https://salad.com/
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