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Real Decentralized Compute Network - Scalable and Secure, Powered by Phones
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Acurast is the first decentralized verifiable compute network powered by phones.
Acurast is redefining compute by utilizing billions of smartphones – no data centers required. This verifiable, scalable, and confidential compute network enables users to run secure applications on decentralized infrastructure at scale—without compromising speed or privacy.
Acurast has already onboarded 70,000+ compute units worldwide on its incentivized testnet making it the most decentralized verifiable compute network available today. This impressive amount of compute already powers mission critical workloads with high-security and AI requirements.
This isn’t just another DePIN protocol —it’s a game-changer that’s redefining how the world computes.
As global demand for computing power continues to skyrocket, control has gradually shifted into the hands of a few large, centralized providers. With AI’s rapid growth further accelerating the need for massive computing resources, the call for a truly decentralized, global-scale network—by the people, for the people—has never been stronger.
The only way to deliver on this vision is by rethinking decentralized compute from the ground up. Instead of relying on data centers or even servers, Acurast harnesses the world’s most abundant, powerful, and secure form of compute: smartphones.
* An additional $5,400,000 worth of ACU (up to 60,000,000 ACU Tokens, 6.0% of the total supply) may be made available for purchase during the Acurast Token Sale at the sole discretion of Acurast.
** Ethena USDe (USDe) is now available as a funding method. If a purchase is made with USDe, users can earn up to 6% APY in rewards. These rewards will accrue until May 30, 2025. If you do not successfully receive an allocation, then you will be refunded your original USDe purchase and continue earning rewards.
USDe as a purchase asset is pegged at a 0.999 exchange rate. For example, to make a $100 USD purchase, $100.10 worth of USDe is needed.
Over 70,000 phones as compute units stretch across the globe without relying on centralized data centers, united by a community of more than 18,000 “Cloud Rebels.” Active in over 130 countries, this network sets a new standard for true decentralization.
By tapping into the compute of billions of smartphones worldwide, it’s primed to reach an unprecedented scale. Backed by academic research benchmarking its performance against leading centralized providers, it’s built for the future of decentralized compute. Battle-tested: The Acurast protocol has processed more than 250 million transactions on Testnet, demonstrating its impressive scalability and resilience.
Acurast safeguards over $200 million in digital assets across leading networks—such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, TON, Polkadot and others. The smartphone’s best-in-class Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) confirm that hardware is genuine rather than fake, while maintaining confidentiality without requiring trust in the device owner. This strong emphasis on verifiability and confidentiality delivers the robust security essential for mass adoption of decentralized compute.
Acurast is the decentralized compute network designed to power the emerging decentralized compute economy by aligning all network participants—developers, compute providers, and end-users—around shared incentives. The Acurast token ($ACU) and economic model lies at the heart of this ecosystem, powering a secure, scalable and decentralized compute economy while incentivizing active collaboration and sustainable growth.
$ACU has a total supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens. With its community-first commitment, most of the tokens will be allocated to the community to acknowledge early contributions to the broader crypto ecosystem, foster the creation of services and products on top of Acurast, and support the project’s roadmap and long-term objectives.
1. Network Fees: The Acurast network, a Proof of Stake blockchain, acts as an orchestrator and settlement layer for the decentralized compute economy. To interact with the Acurast network $ACU is required to pay for transaction fees. Transaction fees are burned.
2. Settlement: $ACU acts as a unified settlement token for compute. Further abstracted away from the end user, making payment for decentralized compute on Acurast possible in any token.
3. Staking: While Acurast’s compute is secured by design, an additional layer of economic security is added to the network by staking. Stakers receive fees from the network as rewards for providing economic security to the network.
4. Governance: Holders of $ACU can engage in the protocol governance by voting on a variety of proposals brought forward by the community, ensuring true decentralisation and future proof evolution by design.
Acurast’s high-performance Proof of Stake blockchain orchestrates global demand and supply for secure decentralized compute—without centralized data centers. This chain verifies genuine hardware with on-chain manufacturer attestations and anchors confidential workloads, ensuring trustless and verifiable execution across billions of smartphones. Acurast’s Android and iOS clients offer end-to-end checks of each phone’s secure elements, delivering unstoppable trustless compute at scale.
Acurast delivers a next-generation serverless compute platform, purpose-built for the demands of web3, AI, and beyond. Developers can seamlessly deploy and scale JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and WASM workloads via a simple CLI, with access to thousands of NPM packages and deep integration across major ecosystems. Centered on openness, composability, and decentralization, Acurast forms the foundational layer for the decentralized compute economy, unlocking mass adoption and enabling unprecedented innovation in web3.
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