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#026 - Acurast - Mobile-Powered Decentralized Serverless Cloud
May 16, 2024
Alessandro de Carli, Co-Founder at Acurast, shares how they're revolutionizing cloud services by utilizing mobile hardware for decentralized computing. Topics include mobile-powered compute exchange, serverless servers on mobile devices, decentralized confidential computing, and Acurast's advantages in cost efficiency, performance, and security over Lambda. Plans for supporting AI workloads and expanding network accessibility are also discussed.
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- Acurast leverages old smartphones to create a decentralized cloud, challenging traditional providers with cost-effective and efficient hardware utilization.
- Accurast simplifies onboarding for developers and compute providers, offering rewards for contributing spare mobile processing power.
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Accurast: Building Decentralized Infrastructure Powered by Mobile Phones
Accurast, a project led by co-founder Alessandro de Caragli, leverages old smartphones to create a decentralized infrastructure. Alessandro's technical background and experience in mobile security and blockchain led to the DeFi project that birthed Accurast. By utilizing smartphones' powerful hardware with ARM processors, Accurast enables verifiable code execution, paving the way for building a decentralized cloud. This innovative approach challenges traditional cloud providers by leveraging the efficiency and cost-cutting benefits of mobile hardware.
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