If you don’t write for a day, you’ll get left behind. This leaderboard drops like crazy every day. Phone providers are willing to join because there are rewards; developers are willing to stay because the service is genuinely useful. I think the logic of ACU should be viewed from these two angles. @Acurast organizes idle phones into a computing network to handle APIs, scheduled tasks, AI inference, and more. According to the official website, there are currently 336K+ connected phones, 690K+ cumulative deployments, and 1.1B+ on-chain transactions. ACU plays a specific role in this: network interactions require transaction fees, and devices earn incentives by contributing computing power. If you participate in staking, you use tokens as collateral for your computing power commitment—if you fail to deliver, you might get penalized. Token holders can also participate in governance, deciding on the use of certain funds and protocol rules. The economic model also needs to be broken down. The current annual inflation rate is 5%, with 70% of newly minted tokens going into the staking power pool and 10% allocated for basic rewards. The computation fees paid by developers are burned after tasks are successfully executed. On one hand, the supply side gets incentives, while on the other, actual usage drives token burn. What I appreciate is the tangible connection between this token and the computing service. Next, we’ll need to see if customers continue to pay, how much is actually burned, and how much new supply is added. Only by putting all these numbers together can we truly understand how solid the demand for ACU is as the network develops. @Acurast