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Some of crypto’s starring task firms are teaming up to substance decentralized concern (DeFi) connected the Polkadot blockchain network.
Acala (ACA), a DeFi-focused web built connected Polkadot (DOT), announced Wednesday that is launching a $250 cardinal “aUSD Ecosystem Fund” to enactment startups successful Polkadot’s budding DeFi ecosystem. Acala says the backing volition beryllium granted retired specifically to teams gathering use-cases for the Acala Dollar (aUSD) – a crypto-backed stablecoin that aims to go the backbone of DeFi connected Polkadot and Kusama.
Dan Reecer, Acala’s main maturation officer, described the inaugural to CoinDesk arsenic a “group effort” among teams who privation to turn Polkadot arsenic a whole.
In summation to moving with task firms, Acala has enlisted 9 of the network’s largest parachains arsenic partners successful the aUSD initiative.
“It's a mode for america to each travel unneurotic astir this communal extremity of aUSD and helping to found this benignant of foundational liquidity – this foundational benignant of instrumentality – enabling the Polkadot system to statesman to grow,” Reecer said.
Polkadot has spent the past respective years gathering retired infrastructure for a multi-chain crypto ecosystem, whereby antithetic blockchains co-exist with 1 different to work antithetic use-cases.
The Polkadot web – a alleged furniture 0 blockchain – provides a instauration upon which furniture 1 “parachains,” similar Acala, tin securely interoperate. Polkadot’s hub-and-spoke exemplary aims to supply a safer alternate to the problem-prone cross-chain “bridges,” that are presently utilized to nonstop and person accusation betwixt wholly-independent blockchains.
Acala, which markets itself arsenic “The DeFi Hub of Polkadot,” was the archetypal parachain to spell unrecorded connected the network. Back successful February, Acala launched aUSD to service arsenic the default stablecoin connected Polkadot and its canary network, Kusama.
Stablecoins similar USDC, DAI and aUSD are tokens that employment mechanisms to support them “pegged” to the terms of immoderate different unchangeable plus (like the US dollar).
The advent of tokens with dependable prices is what has enabled DeFi protocols connected different blockchains, similar Ethereum, to flourish. Activities similar lending and borrowing, for instance, go acold easier to execute connected a blockchain erstwhile users tin supply little volatile assets – e.g. stablecoins – arsenic collateral.
aUSD takes aft different “crypto-backed” stablecoins similar DAI by relying connected over-collateralization to support its peg. aUSD is issued retired to users successful the signifier of an overcollateralized loan, and the magnitude of collateral required is automatically regulated to support aUSD trading astir $1. aUSD presently accepts collateral successful the signifier of DOT, the autochthonal token of Polygon, Acala’s ACA token, and LDOT, a variant of DOT utilized for liquid staking connected Acala.
Today, aUSD has a circulation of $7 cardinal with $72 cardinal successful backing, according to Acala’s authoritative dashboards.
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