Golem

Golem is the sort of cryptocurrency people reach for when they want decentralized computing rather than a plain speculative coin. By our assessment, its strongest idea is easy to grasp: matching people who have spare compute with people who need it. That makes it more interesting than many tokens that exist only as symbols, but the trade-off is complexity, because distributed compute markets are harder to make feel smooth than a simple wallet app. In practice, Golem asks the user to care about the network idea first and the token second. It sits in the older, more ambitious crypto tradition of trying to do a real utility job, and that ambition is exactly why it is still more demanding than a mainstream coin.