Acurast, a rollup secured by @Polkadot , processed 40M transactions in February 2026.
What is Acurast?
@Acurast is a decentralized, serverless cloud network.
It allows people to contribute unused computing power from their smartphones.
Instead of relying on centralized servers, Acurast turns everyday devices into nodes that execute tasks.
Contributors are rewarded for participating, making computing more accessible and distributed.
What’s been achieved so far
▪️Reached 425,000 deployments on the network.
▪️Mainnet launched on Polkadot.
▪️225,000 smartphones activated via @base
▪️Active in 140 countries
▪️$ACU token listed on exchanges like MEXC and Kraken, Gate, and Kucoin
▪️Public Explorer is live to track transactions and deployments
▪️Governance is live, enabling token holders to participate in decisions
What’s next
▪️Dynamic pricing mechanism is in development
▪️Continued expansion of the network and tooling
Acurast is showing how decentralized infrastructure can scale using real-world devices.
When someone asks "how can phones be secure enough for real compute?"
This is the answer.
Your phone has a vault inside it.
Not an app. Not software. Actual hardware.
It's called a TEE. Trusted Execution Environment.
When Acurast runs compute on your phone, it runs INSIDE this vault.
Your phone's OS can't see it
The phone owner can't see it
Not even Acurast can see it
That's not a privacy policy. That's physics.
Apple calls it Secure Enclave.
Samsung calls it Knox.
We call it the foundation of confidential computing.
The biggest complaint about staking $DOT was the 28-day unbonding period.
It's dropping to under 48 hours.
No more waiting a month to access your tokens. No more slashing risk for nominators. Just rewards.
What's changing and when ↓
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Yesterday, millions switched from ChatGPT to Claude. Claude reportedly couldn't handle the load. It went down.
This morning, a single infrastructure event took AWS offline. And everything built on top of it followed.
Banks. Apps. "Decentralized" protocols. Gone.
Web3 promised to remove single points of failure. But the infrastructure underneath never changed
That's what Acurast is building differently. 230’000 smartphones and growing worldwide, independent and distributed
No data center to go dark. No single provider to fail.
When the cloud wobbles, we don't.
#acurast
While AI companies are debating government contracts,
blacklists, and who gets access to what…
Acurast is building infrastructure that doesn’t need permission.
No exclusive contracts.
No centralized control.
No “approved vendor” lists.
Just a decentralized network of secure smartphones delivering
confidential compute globally.
In 2025, 16 billion credentials were leaked.
Google. Facebook. Apple.
Phishing. Ransomware. Social engineering.
It keeps happening because control isn’t yours.
The Second Age is about taking it back.
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Decentralized compute, accessible globally.
We’re allocating 1M MIST and 40K of $DATA tokens to the TOP 50 yappers on the Acurast × @Streamr Leaderboard.
Follow and post about @acurast + @Streamr, climb the Mindshare Leaderboard and get your share of Acurast MIST and $DATA tokens.
Verifiable decentralized compute meets real-time decentralized data streams.
Campaigns runs until 11.02.26, and rewards will be allocated based on leaderboard posts and community engagement.
There is a lot of FUD circling around @binance listings and their campaigns. Negative voices are often the loudest, so I felt compelled to speak up and share our actual view.
As a project that was recently listed on @BinanceWallet and @BinanceFutures, our experience was the opposite of what is circulating online.
Yes, Binance Alpha comes with the Airdrop, but the reality is that the volume coming from that campaign simply blows other venues out of the water.
But volumes aren't the only thing worth mentioning. Their onboarding and DD were extremely professional, they even helped us identify and fix technical misconfigurations. When you are launching a mainnet with so many moving pieces, having a partner catch those details is extremely valuable. Binance helped us secure a successful launch in a very challenging market.
I also believe that projects focused on vanity numbers, lacking substance, shouldn't be surprised if they don't perform, regardless of the exchange. We are seeing a shift away from memes back to projects with real ecosystem utility (and I like this much-needed shift).
Network Update: January 2026
171,787+ devices providing compute globally.
377,259+ production deployments running.
593+ million on-chain transactions processed.
This is what true decentralization looks like.
No centralized data centers.
No intermediaries.
Just distributed infrastructure owned by everyone, operating at scale.
The Cloud Rebellion continues.
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