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Acurast raises $5.4M for global decentralized cloud using smartphones


Acurast has raised $5.4 million to use smartphones to power a global decentralized cloud computing network.

“Most of the newly raised capital will be used to enhance our protocol, which continues proving that compute can be verifiable, confidential, energy-efficient, and truly decentralised, powered by the phones in our pockets,” said Alessandro De Carli, president of the board and cofounder of Acurast, in a statement. Acurast has raised $5.4 million.Acurast enables users to participate in confidential compute tasks, decentralized AI, and blockchain infrastructure, all while earning rewards by leveraging the processing power of smartphones. Acurast has onboarded over 72,000 smartphones, or “compute units,” worldwide onto its decentralizedtestnet with over 256 million transactions, making it the most decentralized and verifiable computenetwork available today, eliminating the need for centralized data centers.

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