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| 1h | 24h | 7d | 30d | 60d | 90d |
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| 1.09% | 2.31% | 3.44% | 25.74% | 32.00% | 35.34% |
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About Acala
Acala is a DeFi parachain on Polkadot built around the over-collateralized stablecoin aUSD and the liquid staking derivative LDOT: users deposit DOT or LCDOT into the Honzon protocol, open a collateralized debt position at a set ratio and mint aUSD, while Homa converts staked DOT into transferable LDOT that carries the staking yield. Acala EVM+ runs Solidity contracts on Substrate accounts, and XCM moves assets to the relay chain and other parachains.
The product set spans stablecoin, staking and a DEX, with aUSD as the unit of account for lending and trading and LDOT as the yield-bearing asset. A 2022 mis-mint in the iBTC/aUSD pool depegged aUSD badly, after which collateral and oracle parameters were rebuilt. In August 2026 the ACA schedule moved to 100 million tokens a year for six years, the same month the token hit a record low, more than 99% below its 2022 peak.
Emissions: The ACA Release Upgrade approved by governance in June executed on 15 August (block 4,238,700) as part of Acala 2.0 Exodus: 100M ACA a year for six years, half to staking and half to liquidity incentives, with unused tokens burned. Another 4.66M ACA was scheduled to unlock to early crowdloan participants on 25 September.
Setback: ACA printed an all-time low of $0.00025 on 2 August, leaving a market cap in the low single-digit millions and under $180K of daily volume, more than 99% below its 2022 peak.
Ruitao Su — Co-founder; serial entrepreneur who led the design of token economic models such as aUSD.
Bette Chen — Co-founder; BA in Software Engineering from Otago and MBA from Duke, leads product and protocol design.
Bryan Chen — Co-founder & CTO; core contributor to Substrate and Polkadot ambassador.
Fuyao Jiang — Co-founder; founder of Polkawallet and early Polkadot community builder.
Acala's built-in DEX charges a 0.3% fee on each swap based on trade value; the fee stays entirely inside the liquidity pool and is distributed to market makers in proportion to their LP shares.