Acurast

How DePINly estimates Acurast smartphone-compute earnings. Last verified 2026-05-22.

TL;DR

A decentralized serverless cloud running on smartphones with Trusted Execution Environments (TEE). Two paths: Lite (app on your existing phone, idle compute → passive ACU) and Core (factory-reset phones as always-on mini-servers). The old bootstrap incentive (e.g. 250 cACU/device) sunset 2025-11-09; Acurast now pays from a fixed per-epoch inflation pool split proportionally by each phone's benchmark, so per-phone reward falls as the network grows (dilution — the dominant variable, not modeled here).

Earning mechanics

• Reward ∝ phone benchmark share of the inflation pool; executing real deployments adds a +10% weight, idle phones earn only base.
• Multipliers: country tier (T1 1.0 / T2 0.7 / T3 0.5 — job-allocation priority), phone tier, Wi-Fi reliability.
• The largest stream — staking (~70% of inflation) — is a separate path, not modeled.

Formula (sketch)

perPhone ≈ base × countryTierMult × phoneTierMult × wifiMult × (deployments ? 1.1 : 1.0)
monthlyUsd = perPhone × ACU_price   (illustrative; dilution NOT applied)

Assumptions & confidence

NOT modeled

Network-growth dilution (dominant variable), staking (~70% of inflation), exact benchmark scoring, ACU volatility. Treat output as illustrative.

Confidence rating

🟡 — Mechanics (fixed pool, benchmark split, deploy bonus) are sourced, but base constants predate the bootstrap sunset and dilution isn't modeled — shown as illustrative ranges.

Sources (verified 2026-05-22)

Acurast docs (inflation pool, bootstrap sunset) · ACU TGE Jan 2026 · CoinGecko (acurast).

Code

src/lib/calculators/acurast-rewards.ts · src/components/calculators/acurast/AcurastCalculator.tsx · src/app/calculate/acurast/page.tsx