PANews reported on November 13th, citing Cointelegraph , that Acurast has announced an $ 11 million funding round and plans to launch its mainnet on November 17th , simultaneously issuing its token ACU . The project claims to achieve verifiable, confidential, and tamper-proof computation on consumer smartphones, using hardware key proofs to allow only manufacturer-certified devices to connect. Its network data shows nearly 150,000 phones have joined, processing approximately 494 million transactions and deploying approximately 94,200 services. Investors include Ethereum co-founder and Polkadot founder Gavin Wood . In response to security concerns, the project stated that devices with invalid certificates cannot obtain valid and trusted proofs and are therefore rejected from access.