Acurast is a decentralized physical infrastructure network that turns smartphones into verifiable, confidential compute nodes without relying on centralized data centers. Acurast's Twitter Score is 46 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #19,976 (top 5%) among 483,288 tracked accounts.
Acurast was founded by Alessandro De Carli and operates under the Acurast Association. Built as a Substrate-based Polkadot parachain with parachain ID 3396, the network allows developers to deploy confidential workloads executed directly on consumer smartphones running Android, iOS, or Solana Mobile. Acurast launched its mainnet and token-generation event on January 20, 2026, describing the network at that point as a live, permissionless production compute layer.
Acurast reported raising a total of $11 million across non-dilutive grants and token-based rounds between 2023 and 2025. That figure included $5.4 million raised through a token sale that ran on CoinList in May 2025. Backers include HV Capital, Scytale Digital, Sigma Capital, peaq, Gavin Wood, Ogle, Michaël van de Poppe, and Vineet Budki.
Acurast's native token, ACU, launched with an initial supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens, a fixed annual inflation rate of 5%, and a 6.5% allocation reserved for early backers. At mainnet launch, the network reported more than 169,000 onboarded phones, more than 364,000 deployments, and more than 589 million on-chain transactions. Acurast has published 1,043 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 244 accounts a total of 682 times.
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The accounts that follow Acurast include 141 founders, 22 angel investors, 169 influencers and 2 VCs. Among them are Zmanian, Gavin Wood, wale.moca, Gabriel M Haines, Polkadot and DFarmer.