What is Happening
To boost DeFi on Polkadot, DeFi network Acala has partnered with Polkadot’s innovation center Astar Network. The “Astar x Acala DeFi Rising” initiative was just released by the two top parachains to provide developers with more options and incentives.
The growing number of decentralized applications (dApps) on Astar is largely due to the range of adaptable financial products offered by Acala, which supports the Polkadot network. Due to this partnership, developers may use Acala-native assets like aUSD, LDOT, and ACA to create a protocol on the Astar DeFi environment with the added bonus of collecting ACA and other benefits from the many different teams that make up the Astar ecosystem.
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What is Acala
The aUSD ecosystem is powered by the decentralised Acala financial network. Acala USD is the native stablecoin of the Polkadot ecosystem, and it is a decentralized, multi-collateral, crypto-backed stablecoin. The DeFi protocols built into Acala’s Ethereum-compatible blockchain can be used by application developers. These protocols include a trustless staking derivative (liquid DOT — LDOT), a decentralised exchange, and the EVM+, a hybrid EVM that provides an Ethereum-compatible development environment that is also fully compatible with Substrate.
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