Acurast Documentation
Decentralized Serverless Cloud
Motivation
Centralized trust is ubiquitous in today’s interconnected world, from computational resources to data storage and its underlying infrastructure. The monopolization of cloud computing resembles a feudalistic system, causing a loss of privacy and data ownership.
Cloud Computing and the Internet in general face widely recognized challenges, such as:
- the centralization of trust in auxiliary systems (e.g., centralized cloud providers),
- the seamless and permissionless interoperability of fragmented ecosystems and
- the effectiveness, verifiability, and confidentiality of the computation.
Acurast is a decentralized serverless cloud that addresses all these shortcomings, following the call for a global-scale cloud founded on the principles of the open-source movement.