Self-Hosted LLM on a Phone: The 9B Model Coinbase Fine-Tuned to Beat Opus
On October 12, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted that his engineers had fine-tuned Qwen3.5-9B, a free, open-weight model, on internal data, and that it beat frontier models at fr
Catching Crypto Scams With an AI Model on a Phone
On October 29, 2026, attackers moved around $6.3 billion out of Binance, the largest crypto theft on record. The FBI has attributed it to TraderTraitor, a North Korean state-backed
Crypto AI Agents Need a New Kind of Compute. Here’s Why Acurast Matters.
AI agents are moving beyond conversation. Crypto AI agents can hold wallets, call smart contracts, pay for services and execute tasks onchain without a human approving every
Laya Plays Tetris: One Piece, One Decision, One Phone
Tetris is a game of constant decisions. Every falling piece changes the board, and a placement that looks good now can create problems several moves later. In Acurast
What Is Crypto AI? Acurast’s Role in Decentralized AI Compute
Crypto AI is the meeting point of blockchains and artificial intelligence, and it starts with one hard problem: compute. AI needs enormous processing power, and today most of it si
Laya Demos: Try a System One Model Running on a Phone
Nine live demos hand every decision they make to the same open AI model, running on an Android phone from the Acurast Network. In one it plays the classic Snake game; in another it
Why System One Models Belong on a Decentralized Cloud
System One models like Jev and Laya answer with probabilities instead of text. Small, stateless and privacy-sensitive, they are the workload a decentralized cloud of phones handles
From Spare Phones to Mini Data Centers: Inside the Growing Acurast Community
Every network starts with technology. But technology alone does not build a network. People do. Five Acurast rebels on how a single spare phone became a phone farm, and how some of
Your WordPress Site Doesn’t Need a Cloud Server
WordPress powers everything from personal blogs to company websites, publications, and online stores. Traditionally, running a WordPress site means relying on a hosting prov
What to Do With Old Phones: Google Research Says Build a Cloud Out of Them
What to do with old phones: Google Research says build a cloud out of them 5.3 billion phones fell out of use in 2022, and most of them went into a drawer. In June, Google Research