# Acurast

> Acurast is a decentralized, confidential compute network powered by smartphones. It provides scalable, secure, off-chain computation without reliance on centralized cloud servers, and is coordinated on-chain via the $ACU token.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://acurast.com/): Overview of the Acurast Decentralized Compute Network.
- [Blog](https://acurast.com/blog/): Announcements, builder spotlights, and product updates.
- [Sitemap](https://acurast.com/sitemap_index.xml): Full list of indexable URLs.

## About
- Acurast turns smartphones into a distributed compute layer ("Acurast Farms").
- Core use cases: confidential execution, decentralized bandwidth & compute, on-chain automation & secret management, high-performance distributed compute.
- Community: https://x.com/Acurast, https://t.me/acurastnetwork, https://discord.com/invite/wqgC6b6aKe, https://github.com/Acurast