Acurast
ACU#487 by market capQualifies for a record and its pages are captured daily, but the record has not been written yet.
Acurast is for physical networks run by their users. We have not written its record yet, so its promises are not checked. It trades at $0.1248, #460 of all coins by size, 60% below its highest ever price.
This week Nothing changed on its record.
A real job, real backing. No dated promises on its pages. Nothing dated ahead. #25 of 114 depins. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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Passes all four
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: physical networks run by their users
- ✓Real backingBacking: trades on Kraken, KuCoin
- ✓Something aheadAhead: news this month about upgrade
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $47.59M, 54 times smaller than Bittensor, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (DePIN)
Listed on 2 big exchanges
- Origin23 January 2026about about 8 monthsacurast.com, GitHub, Whitepaper
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode activity not checked
- BackingNo named investorListed on Kraken, KuCoin
- Standing on the recordNo recordNo dated promise to judge yet2 headlines last monthNo corrections needed so far
- Real-world purpose: physical networks run by their users
- Backing: trades on Kraken, KuCoin
- Ahead: news this month about upgrade
- Room: worth $47.59M, 54 times smaller than Bittensor, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (DePIN)
It is already worth more than the typical coin in DePIN ($7.84M). To match the leader, Bittensor ($2.57B), its price would need to rise 5304%, to about $6.75.
Still to check
- No dated promise on record yet, so delivery cannot be judged
- No named investor among its tags
- Only 2 headlines named it last month
What to do Nothing dated is ahead and nothing has been delivered on record. There is no event to wait for yet, which is itself the answer.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
No dated promise has been found on the pages this project publishes. Its pages are saved every night, so anything it commits to from now on appears here.
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
What is next, and when?
Nothing dated has been found on its pages, so there is no date to wait for yet.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
Physical networks run by their users
114 coins tagged DePIN, worth $8.41B together. #25 of 114 by worth.
DePIN: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
Acurast$47.59Mthis coin+2.7%no maxno record
Bittensor$2.57B54.0× bigger, +$2.52B−2.8%, gap −5.554% outnone dated
Filecoin$734.75M15.4× bigger, +$687.17M−11.2%, gap −13.9no maxnone dated
Render$707.7M14.9× bigger, +$660.11M−1.3%, gap −4.081% outnone dated
Beldex$593.91M12.5× bigger, +$546.32M−1.0%, gap −3.7no max10 of 48 delivered
BitTorrent$321.97M6.8× bigger, +$274.39M−1.4%, gap −4.1100% outnone dated
Grass$217.5M4.6× bigger, +$169.91M+2.2%, gap −0.568% outno record
IOTA$195.67M4.1× bigger, +$148.08M+2.6%, gap −0.1no maxnone dated
DePIN: this coin next to Bittensor, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Acurast says
- Acurast is redefining compute by utilizing billions of smartphones - no data centers required.
- Bittensor says
- Bittensor is a network of independent computing services where people are paid in a cryptocurrency called TAO for contributing things like computing power, data storage, or predictions.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
Acurast is redefining compute by utilizing billions of smartphones - no data centers required. This verifiable, scalable, and confidential compute network enables developers to run secure applications on decentralized infrastructure at scale, without compromising speed or privacy.
Problem it says it solves: physical networks run by their users. 114 coins are working on it and together they are worth $8,409,518,291. This coin is 1% of that.
Where it trades: Kraken, KuCoin, Pancakeswap Infinity CLMM, LBank, Gate
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
Nothing printed today
None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.
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DePIN: this coin next to the group's largest, Bittensor.
| Acurast | Bittensor | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 7 months | 3 years |
| Major exchanges | 2 | 6 |
| Named backers | 0 | 1 |
| Headlines, last month | 2 | 89 |
| Promises delivered | no record | no record |
What it says is different: Acurast is redefining compute by utilizing billions of smartphones - no data centers required. This verifiable, scalable, and confidential compute network enables developers to run secure applications on decentralized…
It is 1.9% the size of Bittensor. On the facts above it is behind on years trading, major exchanges, named backers, headlines, last month. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record, news that names it. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.
The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $0.3159 on 23 January 2026. Today is 40% of that.
37%
of all ACU that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 381.67M coins.
63% (647.33M coins) is not yet created or held by the project. That is a majority. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Its pages do not say what holding it gets you
That is worth knowing before buying. A coin nobody needs is priced on hope.
- Nothing the project's own pages spell out.
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- 381.67Min circulation of 1.03B total. No hard maximum is set, so more can be created.
- 2.7×fully diluted value versus today's market cap. The gap is coins not yet released.
- of its all-time high of $0.3159 on 23 January 2026. That is −60.5% from the top.
- #460by market cap, $47,587,544.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
What the news says
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Headlines per day, last 30 days
2 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- Upgrade1
- AI1
Why it movedDown 18% this week. No headline named it in the last three days, so the move is not explained by news we can see.
- Acurast: Final Mainnet Collator Spot OpenUpcoming
- Acurast Activates 225,000 Smartphones on Base to Power Confidential On-Chain AI
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
Qualifies for a record and its pages are captured daily, but the record has not been written yet.
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy