Acurast has onboarded 335,000+ smartphones while running real deployments instead of just incentivized testnet activity. @Acurast is a decentralized compute network that turns ordinary phones into verifiable compute nodes using Trusted Execution Environments. What changes: ▸ compute supply comes from existing consumer devices instead of new data centers or GPU clusters ▸ execution is confidential and verifiable because workloads run inside the phone’s TEE ▸ developers can deploy serverless jobs, APIs, and LLM inference without managing infrastructure ▸ providers earn $ACU by contributing idle or spare phone capacity The data (as of late 2026): ▸ 335,000+ phones onboarded ▸ 1.1B+ on-chain transactions ▸ 685,000+ deployments ▸ presence across 175+ countries What it means: ▸ capacity can scale by adding phones people already own ➜ lower marginal cost than traditional compute new workloads are possible, but sustained demand still depends on developers actually using the network beyond early experiments My take: if Acurast moves from mostly provider-side growth to consistent real workload usage, it becomes one of the more practical decentralized compute layers. that only happens if confidential and verifiable execution creates enough demand that people keep phones online for more than just rewards. https://t.co/QbE53D1PaC