Hassan Maishera
Salad.com, an established GPU Cloud Platform powered by globally distributed infrastructure, has announced its strategic partnership with Golem Network.
In a press release shared with Cryptowisser, Salad revealed that the partnership will evaluate the feasibility of meeting Salad’s existing computational demand using Golem’s Web3 infrastructure.
Salad to Leverage Golem’s Permissionless Execution Layer
The team stated that 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.
The test will span 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.
Currently, Salad relies on a stack of centralized services for facilitating customer payments and the delivery of rewards to its network of infrastructure providers. However, Salad faces complexity and operational overhead due to its software stack of traditional payment processors, usage-based billing platforms, and reward suppliers.
Integrating 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.
While commenting on the partnership, Bob Miles, CEO of salad.com, said,
“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 to underutilized devices.”
Miles added that this initial test phase seeks to demonstrate whether Web3 can enhance centralized cloud platforms with greater efficiency and openness, while helping Salad to understand how its margin profile could fit into a sustainable tokenomics model as they scale mirrored traffic through Golem Network.
The Partnership Could Usher in the Era of Web2 Businesses Integrating with Decentralized Protocols
The team added that this partnership 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 decentralised 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, pointed out that,
“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.”
According to Salad, Golem Network offered the closest match to its existing platform, and initial tests have delivered significant insights for Salad’s engineering team.
Kyle Dodson, Salad’s CTO, added that,
“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.”
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.
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.
Meanwhile, 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.
