Nodle, the largest decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) on zkSync, is entering a strategic partnership with Acurast, a decentralized serverless cloud physical infrastructure network that enables decentralized, permissionless, and trustless compute on smartphones. In the weeks ahead, Acurast will deploy a smart mission in Nodle’s apps leveraging Nodle's growing user base of hundreds of thousands of monthly active users (MAU). Through this smart mission, Acurast will reward Nodle app users in exchange for the compute power of their smartphones. Acurast in turn, enables the Nodle Network to advance on its vision to become a massive decentralized computer to connect and verify reality.

Acurast’s smart mission atop the Nodle Network, allows users to share their compute resources, quickly and easily. While many projects (ex. Akash) have built decentralized compute infrastructure, these projects require desktop computers or even large servers that support containerized environments. Nodle app users will be able to participate right from their smartphones to activate the Acurast smart mission and share their computing resources. This opportunity opens up access to resources that up until now have remained untapped and opens access to smartphone owners worldwide.

Acurast takes a “serverless” approach to cloud computing, allowing smartphones to participate in a decentralized computing infrastructure. Smartphones are generally the first to receive the most advanced chips but also contain advanced secure hardware modules and even AI acceleration chips. Acurast currently supports Javascript and NodeJS serverless applications, and recently announced support for Google Pixel’s Mobile AI TPU accelerator.

“We believe that smartphones not only benefit from the latest chips, and have more power efficiency, but can provide a more cost effective way to provide computing resources to the world.” says Pascal Brun, Acurast’s Co-Founder. He believes that by making use of old smartphones (many of which have chips that are still more advanced that current production server racks), they can create a more cost effective and environmentally friendly computing infrastructure.

Today, Acurast is being used by tzBTC, the first to mint wrap Bitcoin in a fully decentralized method with a TVL of 1000+ BTC, taking advantage of Acurast’s decentralized computing.

As smartphones become more powerful (receiving the latest and most powerful chips), and as centralized app stores are forced to open up, DePINs like Nodle open a new era of more secure, decentralized and environmentally friendly computing.

"The Acurast smart mission enables Nodle to advance its long term vision to leverage a global smartphone infrastructure. This opportunity opens up access to valuable resources that up until now have remained untapped and makes it possible to decentralize AI computing.” said Micha Benoliel, the CEO and co-founder of Intergalactic Labs, the lead developer of Nodle.

Together, Nodle and Acurast are paving the path for the future of decentralized mobile-first computing leveraging the estimated 8 billion smartphones globally.