Wouldn’t it be nice to make some extra income just by browsing social media? Well, there’s good news for Ethereum (available on Coinbase) investors: Golem goes live today. Golem is a peer-to-peer market that lets users put their excess CPU powers to use for other people. It’s been in the works for three years now, and the Golem team announced the news this morning via their Medium.

The project launched its GNT utility token back in 2016 and raised almost $340 million in just 20 minutes. Golem was one of the earliest Ethereum (available on Coinbase) applications.

Due to the amount of money it raised and nearly three-year turnaround time, the project has received an ample amount of criticism. It seems that the Golem team severely underestimated how difficult it would be to achieve their goal of a “worldwide supercomputer.” CEO and founder of Golem, Julian Zawistowski, told a reporter at CoinDesk:

“This is typical for software development in general, and blockchain in particular, we underestimate the complexity of what we want to do. You always underestimate how difficult it is, and this was obviously the case with us.”

Golem Goes Live Today

However, this main net launch is an important step in proving its worth and underlying architecture. Presently, Golem enables computers to rent unused CPU power for creating computer-generated imagery (CGI) via Blender. Blender is an open-sourced 3d computer graphics software that is used for creating interactive 3D applications, video games, animated films, visual effects, art, and 3D printed models. Golem connects to Blender directly and swaps the computer power for GNT.