Graphene started as a research project at Stony Brook University, led by Chia-Che Tsai and Don Porter. Over time, scientists at other universities and labs have contributed to Graphene to accelerate their research on emerging hardware platforms.

In 2015, Intel Labs recognized the potential for Graphene to be an open-source compatibility layer for Intel SGX, and has contributed to Graphene development since.

Golem and Invisible Things Lab (ITL) have identified similarly opportunity for Graphene to play a huge role in the decentralized ecosystem, where data integrity, confidentiality, and security are cornerstones to the robust development of infrastructure and applications. Driving Graphene and ensuring its usability is part of Golem's commitment.

Today, there is a strong team of developers and researchers from these companies working together with the founders of the project (now faculty at UNC and Texas A&M) to make sure it meets the highest quality standards with the easiness of integration. Gramine has a growing user and contributor community. It has the potential to become a standard in the Intel SGX world and can be adopted by a broad variety of use cases in a diverse technological landscape.