Explain Acurast 📍

Acurast is the serverless decentralized cloud where anyone can become part of the cloud with their mobile phone, whether new, used, or even with a smashed screen, by providing compute power and earning rewards. Acurast gives developers complete permissionless access to compute that is trustless, affordable, and confidential for deploying their applications.

Why a mobile phone?

About 60% of the Global Cloud Computing market is controlled by a few companies (Google, AWS, et al.). The team behind Acurast knew they couldn’t play by the rules of the big techs and decentralize the cloud computing space easily; they used their expertise from working with mobile phones to address key issues in the Cloud Computing space, such as Costs, too much centralization, Lack of transparency, and lack of data privacy. They are leveraging Mobile phones' chips to provide a better performance, giving the convenience of a cloud while giving you full confidentiality over your data with about 50% cost compared to traditional Cloud services.

How do I know Acurast is good?

Yes. Researchers from the University of Zurich’s Communication Systems Group, in collaboration with the Acurast Association, have unveiled groundbreaking results in their study ‘Performance Analysis of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks and Centralized Clouds’.

Key findings indicate that Acurast has the potential to perform computationally intensive tasks more efficiently and cost-efficiently than traditional cloud services like Google Cloud and Amazon AWS.

The full research paper is publicly available HERE and has been accepted at the upcoming DePIN Workshop of the International Conference on Blockchain Technology (ICBC) 2024.

Is that all?

The social outlook from trusted KOLs in the DePIN Space and from social media has been impressive. Let me plug some reviews here.

https://youtu.be/09iX-5xCsDM?si=83VzisnrgmvQsxdU

https://x.com/lukewrightmain/status/1780624647827898878

https://x.com/dapengzc/status/1781135182038249536

https://x.com/JoseNeuk/status/1781324202806796757

https://x.com/cavecanem739/status/1782324858715570386

https://x.com/junkerdprovinz/status/1782957497826877626

How to onboard as a Processor?

1️⃣ Get a spare Android phone 📱
2️⃣ Setup a Polkadot Wallet 💼
3️⃣ Fund the account with Acurast Faucet 💧
4️⃣ Log in to the Acurast Console 🖥️

https://youtu.be/ZJyCV64m3jM?si=zFHg6f5yrfhWV1Iy

Is there an AirDrop?

There is no Airdrop at the moment; however, you can receive the Acurast Canary token (cACU) as a reward if you participate in the Acurast Bootstrap program; you are eligible to earn 250 cACU per month per every device onboarded.

Learn more about the  bootstrapping program >>>  https://acurast.medium.com/introducing-the-acurast-processor-bootstrapping-program-participate-now-and-receive-up-to-250-fda7a524d419

No further authentication is required to Reset the device. Here is a video that shows how the reset is done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h12Y_HhQQI

Yes, old models are less secure than new models, but nothing stops the user from using a new model. We started with the idea "based on older model" but some of the libraries we use now require users to use more recent OS, which in turn requires them to use new models.


Yes, there is a factory reset button. After factory resetting, your devices comes back to normal.

Knox is closed source so it can't be verified. All AirGap product is open source and free. We went this route because we want this to be a paid product and anyone with the code can easily reproduce it.


Nope, Knox is meant for Android enterprise devices. which comprises over 550+ devices as of today.

https://androidenterprisepartners.withgoogle.com/devices/#!?device_categories=knowledge_worker


Hardware security models aswell as the security design in general of mobile devices is way more secure and battle tested compared to the currently available hardware wallets.

The reason is, these devices don't have the privilege of "not care" about the physical attack vector, yet everyone wants to use them them for very security relevant tasks (mobile banking, identity management, etc)

The knox lockdown performed is one step deeper than what is offered to the user through i.e. settings. Also user errors (i.e. accidentally turning on wifi) are taken care of by the lock down.

Thanks, man, we are looking forward to your review of the entire AirGap solution. Just to clarify, Knox is a device manager, while the AirGap Vault is the center of the AirGap solution that keeps your funds offline. BTW, Knox only works with AirGap Vault.

Knox is a device manager built on Android Enterprise. It disables all forms of connectivity on an OS level ( this is what you don't get by turning your network off & on). so when using Knox you do not have to worry about those kinds of stuff getting on by mistake, in fact, with knox, you only have access to AirGap Vault on your device.

Here are other videos/blog that better explain how to set up knox and what it is.

How to setup AirGap knox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB4Rq6RlaIs

How AirGap knox looks and feels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0NL5W_gqy8

https://medium.com/airgap-it/airgaps-newest-product-airgap-knox-3dbf7592533f

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Thanks. I added an extra link to the post.

The AirGap Vault signs a transaction and provides a QR code for the signed transaction. The wallet to which it is paired (e.g AirGap Wallet, Metamask, Sparrow, Spectre, Rabby) scans the QR code and broadcasts the transaction.

That's exactly what it is.


Having only the seed phrase is a single point of failure. Introducing a mechanism to recover the wallet even if you lose the seed phrase eliminates this


In the future, we will be implementing something more standardized like SSKR and Seed XOR.


https://support.airgap.it/features/social-recovery/