What is Acurast Token (ACU) used for?

- **Transaction fees:** paying for on-chain transactions and operational fees - **Deployment and compute payments:** paying for deployments and compute-related activity on the network - **Incentives and rewards:** distributing rewards tied to network participation, including roles involved in providing compute and producing blocks - **Staking and delegation:** staking ACU to take part in staking mechanisms and delegating to earn rewards without running infrastructure - **Governance and treasury:** taking part in on-chain governance and decisions related to treasury spending - **Cross-chain transfers:** transferring ACU across supported networks using available bridges

Acurast Token

ACU

#285

$0.1260($0.00)

Key Stats

Market Cap$54.03M

Volume (24h)$3.05M

Fully Diluted Value$130.31M

Vol/Mkt Cap (24h)5.65%

Total Supply1.03B ACU

Max Supply∞

Circulating Supply428.78M ACU

Launch Date2025-10-28

Acurast Token Information

Websites

acurast.com

Block Explorers

acurastbot.com

Industries

Decentralized Infrastructure

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Instrument	Exchange	Benchmark Data	Price	24h Change
ACU-USDT ACU_USDT	gateio	A	0.1263USDT	-1.74%
ACU-USDT ACU-USDT	kucoin	BB	0.1264USDT	-1.77%
ACU-USD ACUUSD	kraken	AA	0.1262USD	-1.71%
ACU-EUR ACUEUR	kraken	AA	0.1152EUR	-0.35%
ACU-KRW ACU_KRW	bithumbkorea	-	168.00KRW	-1.18%

About Acurast Token

Acurast Token (ACU) is the native utility token of the Acurast network. On Acurast Mainnet, ACU is used to pay transaction fees and interact with the chain, including payments related to deployments and compute activity. ACU also exists on other networks, such as an ERC-20 on Ethereum, and can be moved across supported chains using bridging. The initial supply is 1,000,000,000 ACU and the model includes 5% annual inflation, with issuance allocated across staking-related rewards, the treasury and collator rewards. ACU supports incentives and rewards for network participation, staking and delegation, governance and treasury decisions and cross-chain transfers. Acurast is supported by the Acurast Association and led by co-founders Alessandro De Carli and Pascal Brun.

Frequently Asked Questions

Acurast Token (ACU) is the native utility token of the Acurast network. On Acurast Mainnet, ACU is the native currency used to pay transaction fees and interact with the chain. ACU also exists on other networks (for example as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum) and can be moved between supported chains using bridging.

The initial supply is 1,000,000,000 ACU. The model includes 5% annual inflation, with new issuance allocated across protocol roles and pools such as staking-related rewards, treasury funding and collator rewards.

Transaction fees: paying for on-chain transactions and operational fees
Deployment and compute payments: paying for deployments and compute-related activity on the network
Incentives and rewards: distributing rewards tied to network participation, including roles involved in providing compute and producing blocks
Staking and delegation: staking ACU to take part in staking mechanisms and delegating to earn rewards without running infrastructure
Governance and treasury: taking part in on-chain governance and decisions related to treasury spending
Cross-chain transfers: transferring ACU across supported networks using available bridges

ACU is associated with the Acurast network, supported by the Acurast Association. Acurast is led by co-founders Alessandro De Carli and Pascal Brun. The Acurast whitepaper credits authors including Christian Killer, Alessandro De Carli, Pascal Brun, Amadeo Victor Charlé, Mike Godenzi and Simon Wehrli.