Question 1

What is Acurast Token (ACU)?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 2

What is Acurast Token (ACU) used for?

Accepted Answer

- **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

Question 3

Who created Acurast Token (ACU)?

Accepted Answer

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**.

#	Instrument	Exchange	Benchmark Score	Price	24h Change	24h Volume	24h Trades	24h Open	24h High
1	ACU-USDT ACU_USDT	gateio	A	0.1249USDT	-5,21%	3 523 521,80ACU	23 016	0.1317USDT	0.1376USDT
2	ACU-USDT ACU-USDT	kucoin	BB	0.1250USDT	-5,14%	1 294 972,40ACU	8 963	0.1317USDT	0.1375USDT
3	ACU-USD ACUUSD	kraken	AA	0.1248USD	-5,10%	745 196,67ACU	2 508	0.1315USD	0.1373USD
4	ACU-EUR ACUEUR	kraken	AA	0.1115EUR	-3,55%	323 556,93ACU	388	0.1156EUR	0.1229EUR
5	ACU-KRW ACU_KRW	bithumbkorea	-	167,00KRW	-4,02%	5 882 667,78ACU	4 338	174,00KRW	184,00KRW
6	ACU-USDT acu_usdt	lbank	C	0.1249USDT	-5,21%	5 242 757,76ACU	86 387	0.1317USDT	0.1374USDT
7	ACU-USDT acu_usdt	xtpub	-	0.1248USDT	-5,24%	3 520 018,31ACU	5 759	0.1317USDT	0.1375USDT
8	ACU-EUR ACU-EUR	bitvavo	B	0.1115EUR	-5,49%	1 649 471,84ACU	4 786	0.1180EUR	0.1232EUR
9	ACU-USDT ACUUSDT	mexc	C	0.1249USDT	-4,96%	554 369,64ACU	6 063	0.1314USDT	0.1378USDT
10	ACU-USDT ACU_USDT	bitunix	C	0.1248USDT	-5,24%	553 346,60ACU	9 118	0.1317USDT	0.1375USDT
11	ACU-USDT ACU-USDT	bingx	D	0.1250USDT	-5,12%	437 109,40ACU	6 538	0.1318USDT	0.1385USDT
12	ACU-USDT ACUUSDT	hitbtc	E	0.1501USDT	0,00%	0ACU	0	0.1501USDT	0.1501USDT