# On what cycle are Acurast ACU rewards assigned, and why is there no amount here?

Official base benchmark rewards and staking rewards are assigned about every 90 minutes. Mainnet and Canary tokens differ. This site does not read those amounts, and a missing figure is not shown as zero.

- Canonical: https://iotahome.site/en/learn/acurast-rewards-settlement
- Publisher: IOTA Watch
- Topics: Acurast
- Published: 2026-10-24
- Updated: 2026-10-24

## At a glance

Base rewards are 10% of inflation and do not depend on joining staked compute. Staking rewards are a separate 70%. Both are assigned per epoch, by benchmark pools and staking terms. The Acurast page here shows registration and type only, not today’s or lifetime ACU.

## Do not add these “rewards” together

| Name | Official description | Shown here as earnings? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Base benchmark rewards | 10% of inflation each epoch; mainnet figure stated as 856.164 ACU, then split across four benchmark pools | No share is shown |
| Staking rewards | 70% of inflation each epoch; the page states 5993.15 tokens, split by performance, stake size, and commitment length | No. Self-run and delegated stake are not summed here |
| Busy Bonus | Benchmark weight +10% when a deployment is executing that epoch | No. It changes score weight |
| MIST | Cloud Rebellion quest points | No. Points are not ACU |
| A smaller balance | Report fees, described as usually about 0.0013 ACU per transaction | Not a negative-earnings field; balance is not shown |

The official rewards page sets the assignment cycle at 900 blocks, about 1.5 hours. That matches the processor docs’ “about 90 minutes.” Base benchmark rewards are 10% of inflation and are paid whether or not the provider joins staked compute. The page states 856.164 ACU per epoch on mainnet, 10% of the stated 8,561.64 ACU, and 85.62 cACU per epoch on Canary. Do not add ACU and cACU.

Staking rewards are a separate 70%. The same page states 5,993.15 tokens per epoch, assigned by hardware performance, stake size, and commitment length. That figure is the pool’s epoch amount for the network, not one phone’s entitlement. The public site also says people without hardware can delegate stake to compute providers. Delegated rewards and a processor’s base rewards are separate lines.

## What this site shows

- The [Acurast project page](https://iotahome.site/en/projects/acurast) confirms mainnet processor registration and type only.

- There is no “ACU today,” no epoch share, no staking reward, and no balance. Missing figures stay blank or unavailable. They are not filled with zero.

- Free allows five saved devices per project and Pro allows 50. The limit counts saved device records. Looking up the same processor again does not duplicate a reward, because no reward amount is displayed.

## Example

Illustration, not an income forecast: the official page states a mainnet base-pool total of 856.164 ACU for one epoch, shared by participating phones across four benchmark pools. If processor P is Registered, this site still does not show P’s slice. If P also stakes, the network figure 5,993.15 is still not P’s credit. MIST points stay in their own count and are not converted to ACU.

## Next step and limit

Use [which address to enter](https://iotahome.site/en/learn/acurast-monitor-guide) so the lookup is the processor, not the manager wallet. Use [job status](https://iotahome.site/en/learn/acurast-phone-job-status) for why Busy Bonus only changes weight. Personal share, credit time, and fee lines stay in Hub and the official rewards page. This site does not promise earnings and does not divide a network epoch total by a phone count.

## Common questions

### Is 856.164 ACU what I receive every 90 minutes?

No. That is the mainnet base-benchmark pool total per epoch on the official rewards page. It is then split across four benchmark pools and contested by participating phones. This site does not compute your share.

### Will Canary cACU appear on a mainnet lookup?

No. This lookup is mainnet processor registration. Canary balances are cACU and are not the same line as mainnet ACU.

### If the balance dips, were rewards clawed back?

Official docs say heartbeats, deployment acknowledgements, and execution reports pay a small transaction fee, usually about 0.0013 ACU, so the balance can fall slightly. That is not a negative-earnings row here, and balance is not shown.

## Sources and implementation

- [Acurast Rewards](https://docs.acurast.com/processors/rewards/)
- [Acurast Compute Providers](https://docs.acurast.com/processors/)
- [Acurast](https://acurast.com/)