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The Gridcoin community has long sought a way to be able to include other distributed computing domains in our rewards structure. (See https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research/issues/782 and https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Tasks/issues/70.) Long ago there was an attempt to try and expose Folding@Home directly as a BOINC project, and it failed. Years later, all of the work done on the scraper (Denise milestone) and later the rest of the recode of the Gridcoin rewards framework (Fern+) prepared the network infrastructure in theory to support other computing domains, with Folding@Home the top of the list. There are limits to what the current wallet protocol can support at the current time though. After thinking through these limits and discussing the most efficient way to "hook in" Folding @Home, the core developers concluded the best approach would be to create an adapter that would act as a bridge between Folding@Home and the Gridcoin network. Cycy contemplated doing a heavier weight adapter that would act much like a BOINC project, requiring account registration just like a regular BOINC project, and then monitoring Folding@Home tasks and transforming that into BOINC project like statistics for the Gridcoin network to process. Cycy even created an informal (survey) poll to gauge interest in the community on this. (See the output of getpollresults 9af4b51f00841ab82f444c218c47b80d0c590098e6d0237fa02489652055cb83 in the wallet console, https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/jvephz/opinion_poll_should_gridcoin_reward_foldinghome/, and https://www.gridcoinstats.eu/poll/9af4b51f00841ab82f444c218c47b80d0c590098e6d0237fa02489652055cb83.) The results of that poll indicated very strong support by the community to create an adapter for Folding@Home. Unfortunately before Cycy could do the adapter, his priorities changed and he is no longer active. Fortunately Div72 has picked up the baton and done it! The adapter that Div72 has written is much thinner than what Cycy envisioned, extremely simple, and elegant and will work very well for the community. It has been in testing on Testnet for several weeks and is extremely stable. I will get into how it works later in this write-up, but first I want to discuss the whitelisting requirements that we apply to new projects. Although Folding@Home is different in many ways from a native BOINC project, we should discuss the requirements as applied to Folding@Home and do a whitelisting poll for Folding@Home.