Acurast

Acurast is a decentralized computing network that provides scalable, secure, and confidential cloud computing infrastructure powered by smartphones and other mobile hardware. The platform enables developers and businesses to access decentralized computing resources without relying exclusively on traditional centralized cloud providers.

Acurast uses smartphones as distributed compute providers, allowing people to contribute unused device computing power to the network and receive rewards in ACU tokens. Developers can deploy applications and access decentralized compute for use cases including confidential AI workloads, distributed analytics, blockchain indexing, web scraping, decentralized VPN services, on-chain automation, secure key management, website hosting, and zero-knowledge proof generation.

The Acurast ecosystem focuses on permissionless, confidential, and cost-efficient computing. Its architecture uses mobile devices as the foundation of decentralized infrastructure, while the Acurast Association supports the development, documentation, and governance of the open ecosystem.