@NATIXNetwork @Acurast Ambassador, the DePIN guy
Washington DC, USA
Joined June 2012
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An agent isn’t truly autonomous if someone else controls its compute. @Acurast brings sovereignty to the stack, from signing inside phone TEEs to paying for compute via x402. #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU
Crypto agents have wallets. But where do they run them?
An agent that signs transactions needs confidential, verifiable compute no single provider controls.
Acurast runs them inside TEEs on phones. They can even pay for their own compute via x402.
Read more: acurast.com/blog/network-and…
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From scrolling on your phone to letting one power your next move, Laya makes @Acurast’s decentralized compute something you can actually try. Nine live demos. Zero sign-up. #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
What if an AI running on a phone decided your next move?
Meet Laya, an AI running on Acurast phones. Explore 9 live demos, from Snake, Tetris & Doom to AI chat moderation and prompt-injection defense.
No account. No sign-up. Just experiment, play, and see what’s possible.
Played around? Turn it into 5,000 MIST ☁️ points with our new Laya Quest: share your experience on X, sign in to the Cloud Rebellion and submit your post’s URL.
Try out the demos: laya.acurast.com
Complete the quest: hub.acurast.com/rebellion/da…
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One phone. An AI wingman. No server farm. Laya handles the swipes while @Acurast powers the demo. That’s compute with chemistry. #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
Swiping is exhausting. Laya doesn’t mind.
With our demo, the AI is in charge of every left and right for your next match. Live on a single Acurast phone. No server farm needed.
Try it out, explore the other demos, or create your own Laya instance 👉 laya.acurast.com
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Promises are easy, delivering compute is what counts. @Acurast puts accountability behind every stake. Deliver and earn, fall short and face the slash.
#DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
Every Acurast stake is a promise of compute.
Managers stake ACU on the compute they promise. Fall short, and the stake is slashed in proportion. That keeps the network stable.
How it works:
→ Every phone's compute is measured each epoch (~90 min)
→ Only the missing part is penalized. Commitments that are met keep receiving rewards
→ Anyone can spot a shortfall and trigger the slash
→ 90% of slashed ACU is burned
Delegators share both the rewards and the risk, so check a manager's Stake Health before you delegate.
Learn more: acurast.com/staking/
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@Acurast is proving that useful AI doesn’t have to live in massive cloud data centers. Laya’s Mail Sorter runs fast on a single phone, showing what decentralized compute can actually look like in the real world. @Acurast #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
Spam or real? Let Laya decide.
The Mail Sorter demo shows Laya sorting messages in milliseconds, running on a single Acurast phone. No data center needed.
Try it out, explore the other demos, or create your own Laya instance.
👉 laya.acurast.com
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A phone playing Snake autonomously at 0.37 seconds per move is more than a demo, it’s a glimpse of truly distributed AI compute. No centralized GPU cluster. No data-center dependency. Just useful AI running live from mobile hardware through @Acurast. That’s the DePIN future: powerful, scalable compute already in people’s hands. @Acurast #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
Model One Systems, playing Snake on a single phone, live, right now on Acurast.
No human player. No data center. 0.37 s per move.
The future of AI doesn't need a server farm. It fits in your pocket.
Try it out and explore the other demos 👉 laya.acurast.com
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Imagine millions of phones becoming the edge layer for AI—handling quick decisions like safety checks, routing, and moderation without sending every request to a centralized server. That’s the direction @Acurast is pushing with Laya and System One: fast, decentralized, and privacy-first AI compute. #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
What if your next AI model runs on a phone, not a data center?
System One models handle decisions like spam detection, moderation, routing, and prompt safety.
Laya puts these workloads on phones through Acurast’s decentralized cloud.
~0.2s decisions. Open model. Private by design.
AI doesn’t always need to scale up. Sometimes, it scales out.
Read the full story 👇
acurast.com/blog/network-and…
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@Acurast is showing what real decentralized compute can look like by turning mobile devices into a global, resilient infrastructure layer for next-generation apps and AI. Great to see @Acurast connecting builders and innovators in Singapore for @token2049. @Acurast #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
Gathering Singapore's Web3 community at The Vantage.
Presented by @BeldexCoin & Acurast, with EAK, @Sigma_VC, and @_thebestevent.
Join fellow founders, operators, and investors for an evening of relaxed networking, skyline views of Marina Bay, and genuine conversations to launch the @token2049 week.
Spaces are limited-reserve your spot below.
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Huge move for accountability in Web3. Transparency around $ACU allocation, unlock schedules, governance, and controls gives the community a clearer foundation to evaluate @Acurast on the facts, not hype. @Acurast #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
What’s behind ACU? Now you can verify it. 👀
Allocation. Vesting. Unlocks. Governance. Administrative controls.
We published our ACU Token Transparency Filing through the @Blockworks Token Transparency Framework, putting the details up for independent review.
Don’t trust. Verify.
Read the full breakdown 👇
acurast.com/blog/uncategoris…
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Your phone shouldn’t sit idle, it should be part of the resistance. With Cloud Rebellion, @Acurast turns unused mobile power into a mission: deploy, grind daily quests, stack MIST, and rise through the rebellion. Then enter Resist the Purge, hide in a sector, outlast the Monopoly, and decide whether to cash out or fight for the 10,000 ACU jackpot.
Mobile-powered compute meets survival strategy. #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
There's still time to climb the ranks in S6 of the Cloud Rebellion.
Connect your phone, deploy an app, run your daily quests. Every action harvests MIST and moves you up the ranks.
Want a shot at ACU? Resist the Purge is a last-one-standing elimination game. Pay in with MIST, pick a sector to hide in, and survive the waves as the Monopoly thins the ranks. Exfiltrate with your MIST, or hold out for the 10,000 ACU waiting for the last one alive.
Join the Rebellion: hub.acurast.com/rebellion
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Backing reliable Acurast processors is a powerful way to earn from decentralized compute without running the hardware yourself. Delegation aligns incentives: operators deliver dependable compute, supporters share rewards, and accountability is built into the stake. @Acurast #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
Some people run phones for Acurast. They promise the network a certain amount of compute and lock up ACU as a guarantee. Keep the promise and they get rewarded. Break it and they lose part of what they locked.
You can back one of them without owning a phone. Your ACU joins theirs, and you take a share of their rewards, and a share of their risk.
You choose who to back.
Get started: acurast.com/staking/
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This is what permissionless compute should feel like: send an SSH key, pay with USDC, and receive a live server endpoint without creating an account or navigating a cloud dashboard. A smartphone-powered VPS with Ubuntu, root access, and TLS in minutes is a strong real-world DePIN use case. @Acurast is turning idle mobile hardware into accessible compute. #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
Your next VPS is on a smartphone.
You POST your SSH public key and a duration to deploy.acu.run and pay in USDC on Base. The response comes back with an ssh command before the machine has even booted.
Minutes later: root shell, Ubuntu, real TLS cert, all running on a phone in the network, not a data centre.
No account, no dashboard, no ACU tokens.
Ask for a VPS. Get a VPS.
Try it yourself: docs.acurast.com/developers/…
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My experience with @Acurast has shown me how a smartphone can become more than an everyday device, it can contribute to decentralized compute. I like the vision of using existing hardware to support a global network for automation, AI, and Web3 workloads while earning $ACU for meaningful participation. @Acurast #DePIN #Acurast #Compute #AI $ACU $BTC $ETH $SOL
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