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Scale your DApp to Polkadot with Acala, an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform optimized for DeFi. Acala is the decentralized finance network and liquidity hub of Polkadot. It’s a layer-1 smart contract platform that’s scalable, Ethereum-compatible, and optimized for DeFi with built-in liquidity and ready-made financial applications. With its trustless exchange, decentralized stablecoin (aUSD), DOT Liquid Staking (LDOT), and EVM+, Acala lets developers access the best of Ethereum and the full power of substrate. Access DOT-based assets and derivatives, Polkadot-native decentralized stablecoin, Polkadot ecosystem assets, and cross-chain assets from Bitcoin, Ethereum and beyond. Acala’s chain is customized for DeFi and can continue to upgrade without forks to integrate new features requested from developers. For example, on-chain ‘keepers’ automate protocol execution to better manage risks and improve user experience, or transaction fees payable with virtually any token.

Horizon Protocol is a differentiated DeFi platform that extends “mainstream DeFi” (borrowing, lending, liquidity) into the creation of on-chain synthetic assets representing the real economy. Creation and liquidity provision of synthetic assets tied to real-world assets and instruments. Participants reap rewards/fees in tokens for providing stablecoins & main coins to back synthetic assets as well as provide liquidity, with the aim of replicating the price, volatility, and thus the corresponding risk / return / valuation profiles of the underlying assets. An experimental asset verification protocol will be developed to be a part of Horizon to enable verification and synthetic replication of physical assets and other instruments of value in the real world and real economy. Used to connect to price, economic, market, and demand data used to help price the synthetic instruments.