{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-24T07:57:30.292Z","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","cite_as":"Own Your Mind, \"Decentralised AI Freedom and Returns score dataset\", https://ownyourmind.ai/integrity/","attribution":"Own Your Mind (ownyourmind.ai). Link the specific project review when citing a single project.","integrity_notice":{"summary":"Each integrity record carries its own record_type, verdict and assessment_level. A 'claim' record quotes the project's own published statement; a 'reported' value is that claim, not a verified fact, unless verdict is 'match'. A 'finding' record is our own measurement and grades no one's claim. assessment_level 'not-assessed' means unchecked, never clean. Findings are dated snapshots, not a live feed.","verdicts":{"match":"verified against independent data","inflated":"reported higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to grade","unverified":"independently checkable, not yet checked","unverifiable":"checked, could not independently confirm"},"record_types":{"claim":"the project's own published statement, quoted verbatim, graded against independent data","finding":"our own measurement for a score dimension; no claimant and never a verdict on a claim"},"methodology":"https://ownyourmind.ai/resources/integrity-checks/"},"slug":"golem","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/golem.md","title":"Golem Network","token":"GLM","category":"compute","freedomScore":6.9,"returnsScore":4.6,"freedomGrade":"C","returnsGrade":"D","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/golem/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-09-23","emission_honesty":null,"reconciliations":[{"metric":"total_supply","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"The migration is gradual and converging towards the same maximum total supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens.","source_url":"https://golem.network/glm","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"GNT to GLM migration converging on a 1,000,000,000 maximum total supply","source":"Golem Network, GLM token page (golem.network/glm)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"On 2026-08-13 totalSupply() reads 796,565,516.94 GLM and the legacy GNT contract reads 203,434,483.06, which sum to exactly 1,000,000,000.00. GLM has risen ~195,712 since our June 2026 anchor and GNT has fallen by the same amount, so every new GLM is a migrated GNT rather than new issuance.","source":"Ethereum RPC totalSupply() on GLM 0x7dd9...6429 and legacy GNT 0xa744...aC0d (Alchemy), 2026-08-13"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"treasury","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The Golem Foundation holds a large ETH-denominated treasury: liquid ETH and GLM in Foundation wallets, plus 100,000 ETH staked through Octant.","independent":{"value":"~11,295 ETH + 50,001,000 GLM in Foundation wallets, read on-chain (token-denominated; ~$25.8M on a 2026-08-17 read). Plus 100,000 ETH staked via Octant (~$189M on the same read) = 3,125 solo validators (Nimbus, public top-20 pool, Foundation Dec-2023 announcement), beacon-chain-countable and corroborated, exact validator set not yet pinned by us. Total ~$215M against a ~$88M GLM market cap, about 2.4x, on 2026-08-17.","source":"Ethereum RPC eth_getBalance on two Foundation wallets (0x7da82c..., 0x70a0a7be...) + GLM balanceOf (0x7dd9...6429) for the liquid; Octant/Diva announcement (golem.foundation, Dec 2023) for the 3,125 validators; DeFiLlama treasury adapter (100k); rewards wallet 0xba1951... accruing ~174 ETH + ~146 WETH (June 2026)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"holder_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Once infrastructure is excluded, GLM's top ten holders sit in a middle band, and the largest single holder is Octant's staking contract.","independent":{"value":"21,315 GLM holders. The top 10 hold 57.7% raw, but 23.83% of supply sits in labelled infrastructure (the largest single holder, at 19.85%, is Octant's RegenStaker contract). Excluding infrastructure the top 10 hold 37.83%, with an identified insider share of 16.59%.","source":"Blockscout labelled top-holder read (coldstart holders source), 2026-08-13"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"},{"metric":"open_source_footprint","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Golem Network is an open-source and decentralized platform where everyone can use and share each other's computing power without relying on centralized entities like cloud computing corporations","source_url":"https://golem.network/","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Golem Network is an open-source and decentralised platform","source":"Golem Network homepage","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Re-read 2026-09-18 through the GitHub API: 230 non-fork public repositories in github.com/golemfactory (275 public in total, 45 of them forks), 130 carrying no licence file and 216 not pushed in 180 days, newest push golem-db on 2026-09-15. Core components were pushed recently: ya-service-bus and ya-relay (GPL-3.0) on 2026-08-10, ya-installer on 2026-08-01, golem-stats-backend on 2026-08-12. The GLM contract source is verified on Etherscan under GNU GPLv3. github.com/golemfactory/yagna, the node repository Golem's installation docs link to, resolves (re-checked 2026-09-23).","source":"GitHub REST API (orgs/golemfactory/repos), re-read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"low"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"GLM is listed on every major exchange, but most of its volume trades on smaller venues.","independent":{"value":"Binance, Coinbase, OKX, KuCoin, Upbit and Gate all trade GLM, across 45 tickers on 38 venues, re-read 2026-10-20 (51 on 44 venues on 2026-10-13, 57 on 48 on 2026-09-06). Reported 24h volume is led by CoinUp.io (25.5%), BloFin (16.8%) and Deepcoin (16.3%), so the named tier-1 venues carry a minority of it. Turnover is a 1.41% 7-day median.","source":"CoinGecko tickers + market_chart, read 2026-09-06 (paginated ticker set, 7-day turnover median)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"low"},{"metric":"token_control_surface","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The GLM token has no owner, no pause, no proxy and no public freeze getter, so no address can halt transfers or freeze a holder.","independent":{"value":"GLM answers no owner() at all, has no pause function, no proxy implementation and no proxy admin, and no public freeze getter. There is no address that can halt a transfer, replace the logic or freeze a holder.","source":"Ethereum RPC control-surface probe on 0x7DD9c5Cba05E151C895FDe1CF355C9A1D5DA6429, via npm run discover:control-surface, read 2026-09-07"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-23","severity":"info"}],"facts":[{"metric":"network_activity","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"stats.golem.network rendered empty; active provider count, task count and utilisation are not independently verifiable.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"}]}}