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. The collaboration will evaluate the feasibility of meeting Salad’s existing computational demand using Golem’s Web3 infrastructure. As part of an engineering test, Salad intends to utilize Golem’s permissionless execution layer to mirror and map a portion of its existing commercial activity across 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.
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, said the collaboration would help 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, said the architecture of Golem, connecting compute requestors and compute providers via a decentralized protocol, closely aligns with Salad’s current operations and could improve cost efficiency and compute orchestration as crypto payments become integrated. More updates will be announced as the engineering test progresses.
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