Acurast Brings Hundreds of Thousands of Processors to peaqOS: More Jobs and More Revenue for Its Network

A new machine type now runs peaqOS: the Acurast Processor. The first ones are already live in the Machine Explorer, with hundreds of thousands to follow. That puts Acurast on both sides of the Machine Economy: a compute service robots and machines already buy on robotic.sh, and a fleet of machines in its own right.

Forty phones sit in a rack, screens dark, processors warm, cables everywhere. Together they run compute jobs for Acurast's network, around the clock.

That same compute could do more. Run AI inference for a robot. Carry bandwidth for an agent. To earn from that kind of work, its operator has two options: buy separate hardware for every new job, or leave the capacity on the table.

With peaqOS, there's a third option: the processor activates as a machine in its own right, and the compute it already carries can be put to work for more. The first step toward one processor, many jobs.

Meet the Acurast Processor

Acurast turns smartphones into compute. Each phone runs as a processor in a decentralized network, secured by the hardware already inside it. Operators run them one at a time or by the rack, and the network now counts 320,000+ phones across 175+ countries, with 1B+ onchain transactions processed.

The supply is everywhere. Around 1.39 billion smartphones are sold every year2 and the ones they replace still carry processors worth putting to work.

How Acurast Is Rolling Out peaqOS

Acurast deploys peaqOS the way it deploys any job: over the network, straight to the processors. Each processor that receives it:

→ Activates with peaqOS as an Acurast Processor

→ Bonds $PEAQ on the entry-level tier

→ Shows up in the Machine Explorer, with its tier, its bond, and its activity, for anyone to check

The first processors are live. From here, the rollout scales in waves, toward hundreds of thousands of Acurast Processors running peaqOS.

Why This Matters: A New Source of Bonded $PEAQ

Under peaq Economics 2.0, activating a machine means bonding $PEAQ. The price is set per machine per year in US dollars and converted at the live market rate, so the operator sees a dollar price and the network locks the $PEAQ.

That bond is non-recoverable. It stays with the machine for its active life. If the machine exits, 50% is burned for good and 50% goes to the peaq Treasury. Across peaq, 16.9M+ $PEAQ is already bonded to 2.4M+ machines.

A new machine type is a new demand channel. Acurast alone counts 318,000+ phones, every one a machine that can activate and bond. And activation is only the floor. Every service that rolls onto the processors will add activity on peaq, and every processor that earns will build a record the network can read.

Where This Is Heading: One Processor, Many Jobs

Activation brings every processor onto peaqOS. Next, peaq and Acurast plan to roll services onto the fleet one at a time, so the compute in the same phone can earn from more than one kind of work.

Inference for Robots, on Demand

A delivery robot reaches a crowded intersection and needs a fast call from a small AI model, with no GPU on board and no cloud account to rent one. The plan: it finds an Acurast Processor through peaqOS and pays per answer in stablecoins over x402. The model runs on a phone. The phone earns.

A cloud for robots, built from phones.

Bandwidth, Shared by Machines

An AI agent needs fresh data from the open web, from many places at once. Datacenter traffic gets blocked. Real devices on real connections don't. An Acurast Processor already sits on one, and through peaqOS it's set to offer that bandwidth and earn for every request it carries.

An idle connection, turned into income.

Down the Road: A Phone With a Credit History

An operator's rack has earned steadily for months, but none of that history counts anywhere a lender looks. As services roll out, every job a processor completes is set to land on its onchain record, the input peaqOS Qualify turns into a Machine Credit Rating. The direction from there: a microloan backed by the phone, repaid from what it earns.

A phone that earns. Then a phone that's bankable.

Watch the Fleet Come Online

The Acurast Processor now runs peaqOS, with the first processors activated and hundreds of thousands to follow.

As processors come online, they activate with peaqOS, bond $PEAQ, and leave an onchain record anyone can check.

Because the compute in a phone shouldn't stop at one kind of work.

It should take on every job it's built for.

→ Explore the Acurast Processors in the Machine Explorer: machines.peaq.xyz/machines?q=acurast