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Novel ideas, like the UDO, require a real-life environment to be tried and tested. Today we're really stoked to announce that Golem Foundation is releasing Octant: a platform for experiments in decentralized governance.

As we get stuck into 2023, let's take a quick look at what we were up to at Golem Foundation over the last year and what developments the year of 2022 brought to our project. We'd also like to show you what we're looking forward to in the next couple of months and what 2023 might have in store for us.

While working on Wildland's cross-platform core we've found that there are no tools that could be used satisfactorily to generate bindings allowing the non-trivial use of Rust APIs in heterogeneous projects. Rusty-bind is an open source project intended to provide a unified tool for generating bindings from Rust code to popular programming languages and runtime environments.

On the 18th of October, RxC and Wildland co-hosted people from all over Europe and beyond together in Warsaw, Poland for a day of examining European institutions through the frame of pluralistic governance, experiencing art as windows to connection, and discussing web3 as a means of social change.

When creating, gaining other perspectives than your own can be extremely important. Especially if an idea is ambitious - everyone needs some grounding. That's why with working on Wildland and our novel decentralized governance framework - the User-Defined Organization - we've been reaching out to experts in the field of decentralized tech and governance.

As promised, we’re back after the ETHWarsaw event where we introduced the Wildland Governance Game to give an update on how the experiment went. Thank you to all people who took part and helped to make a collective impact!

We are putting 100 000 GLM into the hands of ETHWarsaw's participants and letting them decide if they want to keep their tokens or donate them to a great cause and have some real impact.

Ever since we started work on Wildland the User-Defined Organization (or UDO for short) - our decentralized governance framework which aims to tie a platform's governance to its usage, we knew we wanted to challenge our ideas and get as much feedback on them as possible.

We’re really excited to see the first implementation of the UDO come to life in Wildland, but before this can happen, we need to make sure to address any possible problems, challenges and test our approach.

If web3 is to deliver a real alternative to the current model of the internet where power accrues to investors and users are treated as bits in a revenue stream, then the governance modes of decentralized platforms should prioritize the users’ interest and provide them with effective “voice and exit” opportunities.

Coupling economic interests and voting power turns governance decisions into auctions and incentivizes voters to care mostly about the value of the governance tokens. Teams and communities who want to avoid the fate of being “decentralized in name only” should therefore look to other governance modes.

Explore what’s next for Wildland - from building a user-friendly replacement for popular cloud storage services, a marketplace and integrations, to developing a new model of decentralized governance.

Here’s 10 things you should know about Wildland: where it is today and where it’s heading.

Wildland Client 0.2 release brings new features, new integrations and overall performance improvements.

Over the past four months, I have been an intern at Golem Foundation and working on the Wildland client. As the summer comes to a close, I took some time to look back on the main lessons and experiences during my time on the team.

Wildland seeks to offer a viable alternative to bundled, closed services. But why is such a change so important in the first place? Our current digital environment is far from a wild, freely expanding forest of knowledge, but we see an opportunity for change by targeting an array of interlinked challenges.

It’s true, we do eat our own dog food. We have never shied away from the fact that we are building Wildland for ourselves and people like us. So you may be wondering now how we are using Wildland internally. The answer is, for business and pleasure, of course.

On the 24th of June, despite some pretty wild weather with a thunderstorm hanging in the air, around 30 people gathered at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw for Wildland’s 0.1 Release Meetup.

First release of the Wildland client reference implementation!

Lack of privacy is not the only problem we should associate with Big Tech dominance over our digital lives.

We are looking for a skilled public communicator, community infiltrator, and knowledgeable digital sovereignty evangelist, as an evangelist for Wildland.

On September 25, 2020, the Golem Foundation had its first live event – the WildCon1, an internal (but open to the public) seminar on Wildland.

We are excited to present the paper outlining the project’s high-level rationale, as well as some nuts and bolts of this initiative.