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Life & fun · April 30, 2026

Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

Distributed WASM runtime. Workloads place themselves over a zero-trust mesh. One static binary. - Sambigeara/pollen

Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary launched on April 30, 2026 with 137 votes, #244 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

Pollen is a distributed WebAssembly runtime that operates without a centralized control plane, packaged as a single binary. It enables developers to run and coordinate WASM applications across multiple machines in a decentralized manner. The runtime is designed for those building distributed systems who want to avoid dependency on a control plane architecture. It is available as open-source software.

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