@Acurast New EchoHunt Creator Campaign is here for the new round.

This prize pool is 200,000 $ACU—based on the current price, it exceeds 24,000 U. Rewards go to the top 150 creators.

📅 Event period:

Sep 30 16:00 - Oct 25 23:59 (UTC+8)

🔹 Event rules:

👉 XHunt Global Impact Top 200K

👉 Or hold an verified creator badge

👉 Up to 2 pieces of content can be counted per week

👉 Sync to the Binance Square and get additional bonuses

But for this round, there’s something worth noting: writing accounts for 60%, while effective invites make up 40%.

If you really want to push for the rankings, you’ll need to promote Acurast’s real usage as well.

If you happen to have an idle phone, you can also join through my invite.

Invite code: 5rj2kh

Invitation link: hub.acurast.com/rebellion?ref=…

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What exactly is Acurast doing?

Simply put, it wants to turn the world's idle phones into a decentralized computing network.

Phones aren’t for “mining”—they use the device’s TEE trusted execution environment to perform tasks.

After developers submit tasks, the network assigns the work to online phones.

The hardware can be verified, the execution environment can be verified, and task data can be executed without directly exposing it to the device owner.

Finally hand the results over for on-chain verification.

And not long ago, XHunt was selected for YZi Labs’ global incubation program S4—also the first InfoFi project to enter that incubation list.

EchoHunt itself is a creator platform built by the XHunt team.

So the question is:

Turning idle phones into decentralized computing power—what are the real practical uses for that?

This is also what I think is worth researching about this Acurast × EchoHunt event, beyond the prize pool.

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This is also what makes Acurast different from many DePINs.

It’s not just trying to connect “more devices” to the network; it’s trying to turn the phone’s own secure hardware into a verifiable execution environment.

And the biggest advantage of phones is really not their standalone compute power.

But it’s more like:

Quantity, distribution, and ready-made hardware.

There are lots of idle phones around the world; they inherently have secure chips and TEE, and they’re distributed across different countries.

For applications that need geographic distribution, edge computing, and privacy-preserving execution environments, this could be more interesting than simply chasing bigger data centers.

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Of course, phones can’t replace GPU clusters.

For large-model training and high-throughput computing, data centers are still king.

The direction worth paying attention to with Acurast is actually those:

You don’t need massive computing power, but you care a lot about privacy, verification, and tasks executed in a distributed manner.

If you have an idle phone, don’t let it sit—get it running.

This event runs until 10/25—it's worth participating in for me.