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 (1) the centralization of trust in auxiliary systems (e.g., centralized cloud providers), (2) the seamless and permissionless interoperability of fragmented ecosystems and (2) 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. In Acurast, a purpose-built orchestrator, a reputation engine, and an attestation service are enshrined in the consensus layer. Developers can off-load their computations and verify executions cryptographically. Furthermore, Acurast offers a modular execution layer, taking advantage of secure hardware and trusted execution environments, removing the trust required in third parties, and reducing them to cryptographic hardness assumptions. With this modular architecture, Acurast serves as a decentralized and serverless cloud, allowing confidential and verifiable compute backed by the hardware of security and performance mobile devices.

翻译：在当今互联世界中，从计算资源到数据存储及其底层基础设施，中心化信任无处不在。云计算的垄断化类似于封建体系，导致隐私与数据所有权的丧失。云计算乃至整个互联网面临着广泛公认的挑战，例如：（1）辅助系统中的信任中心化（如中心化云服务提供商），（2）碎片化生态系统的无缝免许可互操作性，以及（3）计算的有效性、可验证性与机密性。Acurast 是一个去中心化无服务器云，响应了基于开源运动原则构建全球规模云的号召，解决了所有上述缺陷。在 Acurast 中，专门构建的编排器、声誉引擎与证明服务被固化在共识层中。开发者可以卸载计算任务并通过密码学验证执行过程。此外，Acurast 提供模块化执行层，利用安全硬件与可信执行环境，消除了对第三方的信任需求，并将其简化为密码学硬度假设。通过这种模块化架构，Acurast 作为去中心化无服务器云，能够依托具备安全性和性能的移动设备硬件，提供机密且可验证的计算服务。