Acurast and IRYS: Combining Trustless Compute with Programmable Storage

We are thrilled to announce an exploratory collaboration between Acurast’s verifiable, TEE-backed distributed compute fleet that spans over 146,000+ onboarded devices across 140+ countries with IRYS’s programmatic, high-throughput datachains — unlocking secure, affordable edge compute for data intensive decentralized applications.

Pairing Decentralized Compute and Decentralized Storage

Today’s decentralized compute and storage primitives are often designed in isolation. Storage networks make it economically feasible to keep data onchain, but lack a low-friction, confidential compute layer that can operate on that data at the edge. Conversely, decentralized compute platforms provide execution but face friction when accessing and updating large datasets, both economically and programmatically.

Superior Unit Economics: IRYS solves cost and access barriers for large, persistent datasets; Acurast supplies massively distributed, horizontally scalable compute that avoids central cloud margins.
Increased Security and Auditability: Acurast’s TEE-backed execution provides confidentiality for sensitive workloads; IRYS keeps data onchain under the same auditable rails.
Programmability: IRYS’s onchain programmability lets applications orchestrate storage, proofs, and settlement; Acurast executes the programmatic compute steps off‑chain in a verifiable and confidential way.

This is about tectonic design: making storage more useful and compute more trustworthy. It’s about enabling applications that were previously impossible because either data was locked in expensive silos or compute was centralized and opaque.

“Our explorative partnership with IRYS represents a major step toward rethinking how data and compute coexist,” said Alessandro De Carli, Co-Founder and CEO of Acurast. “By combining IRYS’s programmatic, on-chain datachains with Acurast’s verifiable edge compute, we’re offering developers a unified platform to build secure, auditable, and highly composable decentralized applications.”

“Working with Acurast lets IRYS extend the practical reach of on-chain data,” said Josh Benaron, Co-Founder and CEO of IRYS. “Together we can offer developers a seamless path to secure, verifiable computation over on-chain datasets — enabling new classes of data-first applications that are private, cost-efficient, and immediately interoperable with the broader decentralized stack.”

Looking ahead — scraping, indexing, and vibecoding sessions

As a next horizon, Acurast and IRYS can explore initiatives that make data and creativity flow even better together. Imagine community-driven scraping and indexing initiatives that bring public datasets onchain in ways that are auditable and reusable. Picture live “vibecoding” sessions — short, high-energy workshops where creators use AI-assisted, low-code / vibe-coding techniques to rapidly prototype apps on Acurast, then store canonical static and onchain data on IRYS. These sessions could accelerate experimentation, surface surprising use-cases, and create a library of reference apps and datasets that any builder can remix.

In summary, in the short term we will aim to allow people to host simple applications they have built on Acurast, such as games or websites on the IRYS network, while down the line we will work on connecting more interesting use-cases, especially those that can facilitate decentralized AI.
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About IRYS

IRYS is a programmable datachain that transforms on-chain storage from passive vaults into active, composable data, enabling data to flow, adapt, and be used dynamically across applications. It aims to turn static on-chain records into a platform primitive for building richer, interoperable apps and services. Read more here.
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Acurast 소개

Acurast is redefining compute by utilizing billions of smartphones – no data centers required. This verifiable, scalable, and confidential compute network enables users to run secure applications on decentralized infrastructure at scale, without compromising speed or privacy.

Acurast has already onboarded 120,000+ phones worldwide on its incentivized testnet, making it the most decentralized verifiable compute network available today. This impressive amount of compute already powers mission critical workloads with high-security and AI requirements.

This isn’t just another DePIN protocol — it’s a game-changer that’s redefining how the world computes.