PART 1. Introduction of DxSale project and community questions.
Hello, Satoshi clubbers and guests of this site. Today we want to present you a wonderful project, or more precisely, this is a double project. Acala & Karura are projects created by the same team to satisfy the interests of Polkadot and Kusama users.
Acala’s all-in-one DeFi hub of Polkadot, a platform to helps you stake, swap, borrow, lend, earn, and more – all with micro gas fees.
What is Karura? Karura is the all-in-one DeFi hub of Kusama.
Founded by the Acala Foundation, Karura is a scalable, EVM-compatible network optimized for DeFi. The platform offers a suite of financial applications including: a trustless staking derivative (liquid KSM), a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets (kUSD), and an AMM DEX – all with micro gas fees that can be paid in any token.
The plan of AMA session:
- Part – Introduction and preselected questions.
- Part – Live questions
- The Quiz about Acala &Karura
The reward pool is 500$
Leading the AMA our clever and fun admins:
Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club – @GoldRocket27
Andrés M. | Satoshi Club – @AndresM77
The Representative of the project:
Dan Reecer – VP of Growth @ Acala & Karura – @dreecer
Introduction of Acala &Karura project.
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
Hello, dear community!
We conclude our today’s ama marathon series with Acala & Karura.
Today our Acala & Karura guest is @dreecer – vp of growth in Acala and Karura!
Dan reecer:
Hey! Thanks for having me
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
We are very excited about the upcoming ama😊
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
Let’s start! @dreecer
Introduce yourself please. How did you get to be involved in crypto & Acala & Karura?
Dan reecer:
Well, I took an interest in bitcoin and started studying bitcoin back in 2013 (unfortunately didn’t invest as a poor recent college graduate), but then started following more closely in 2017 when I was working in pharmaceutical brand marketing. I then flew to a bitcoin conference in Miami in Jan 2018, which led me to take an internship at Wanchain. That turned into a full-time offer where I led marketing for 1.5 years. Then I moved to web3 foundation to help launch Kusama and Polkadot for 1.5 years. While at Polkadot, I started consulting on the side with Acala because in my eyes they were the best Para chain building on Polkadot. That turned into an offer to join full-time on Feb 1, and now I’m here leading growth for the team.
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
Wow! You have great background 👍
Dan reecer:
Haha, definitely.
Dan reecer:
Well, I had been hearing the “interoperability” buzzword for a couple of years, but until Polkadot came along, no one was really executing the tech in a way that would really work. When I was evaluating the job offer, Polkadot had a lot of potential because it was created by Gavin wood who created the Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) and created the solidity programming language. Gavin is the primary reason Ethereum is what it is today. But to me, it was impossible to ignore the fact that this guy left Ethereum to create his own project that would be able to scale and improve on all the limitations of the previous network that he built. He even created a new programming language called substrate which makes it possible to easily custom-build blockchains (called Para-chains) for Polkadot and Kusama. My move to Polkadot and Kusama was really a bet on the technology and a bet on Gavin.
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
It can really inspire 🚀
Dan reecer:
So now today we have Polkadot and Kusama with these multi-chain ecosystems really starting to flourish.
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
Hello dan, thank you for the intro, would you like to add something before our first community question?
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
What is Karura? Please tell us more.
Dan reecer:
Yes, so in this diagram, you see all of these small gray squares. These are all individual “Para-chains” that are custom-built for specific use cases. These are layer-1 blockchains equivalent to Ethereum. Acala is building the defi Para-chain for Polkadot, and Karura is building the defi Para-chain for Kusama. Both of these Para-chains are built by the Acala team.
Dan reecer:
Karura will be a blockchain platform that DAPps can be built on, and our team has also already built a full application hub where people can stake, do swap on the Karura DEX similar to Uniswap, borrow and lend with the Karura dollar (KUSD) stablecoin, and do liquid staking for KSM (which means you can stake your KSM and get a liquid form (LKSM) that you can use in DeFi while your original KSM is still earning rewards).
Dan reecer:
This is what the Karura apps look like.
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
Are you planning to connect with other chains? For example, BSC, Cosmos…
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
It looks very dignified! Thank you very much for sharing!
Dan reecer:
It’s all built and ready to launch on Kusama as soon as Karura wins a Para-chain slot auction (which is required to gain a slot on Kusama to launch). People can use the apps already on testnet at http://apps.acala.network (you can use the getting started guide to get testnet tokens).
Yes, we will have bridges to bitcoin and Ethereum. Acala also just recently received one of the first compound grants from the compound team to build a “starport” bridge between the new compound chain and Acala. There are also some teams building bridges to the Cosmos and other chains. I haven’t heard about a BSC bridge yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see that soon too.
Dan reecer:
Ren protocol has already integrated with Acala as well for RENbtc.
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
Congratulations, it seems you are reaching great milestones👏
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
Why did you decide to choose Kusama?
Dan reecer:
Well Kusama and Polkadot have almost the exact same technology, but the communities have become quite different. KSM holders have a significant amount of demand for DeFi products, just like the dot community has a huge demand for DeFi. Karura (http://Karura.network) is serving the demand of Kusama, while Acala will serve the demand of the Polkadot community. We look at it like a traditional company opening a branch in two different countries to serve both populations.
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
It’s true, both are strong projects with a big community
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
@dreecer we have collected some community questions for you, ready to proceed?
Dan reecer:
Sounds great.
Preselected questions about the Acala &Karura DeFi project.
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
Q1 from telegram user @juansb07
You say that the Acala DeFi platform is “all in one” as it has the ability to help users bet, trade, borrow, lend, win and more, all with micro gas fees. But could you explain to me how they do it without any inconvenience? Do users have to complete a KYC to access these tools? And how do the “micro gas” rates work? Are they really minimal?
Dan reecer:
Acala and Karura will be open, decentralized platforms similar to Uniswap, maker, compound, etc. Where they are open financial tools not requiring identity. One of the main user experience differences between Polkadot/Kusama DAPps and Ethereum DAPps is that these will use the “Polkadot.js” browser extension instead of Metamask. The other major difference Acala/Karura will have are the gas fees. Substrate allows us to customize gas fees at the blockchain level, instead of eth DAPps having to just accept what Ethereum requires. So, in our case, we will make gas fees as low as possible (can’t be $0 or there would be spam transactions). The complexity of the transaction will impact the gas fee price, but they will always be very low (if I had to guess, usually under 50 cents USD).
The customization for defi also allowed us to create “bring your own gas”. This allows gas fees to be paid in any token, so there’s no need to find aca for Acala or kar for Karura. For example, if you bring ETH to Karura, you can do a swap and pay the gas fee in eth instead of having to go find KAR.
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
Sounds good!
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
The very complete answer, So what will be the main benefits for holders?
Dan reecer:
Well, one of the things I’m most excited about is that Karura can be used by end-users on day 1 when we launch. Our goal is for Karura to be the first public Para-chain to launch on Kusama, which will be a lot of utility to token holders. For example, 6% of the entire kar supply has been set aside for early liquidity providers. Since Karura has a fixed supply with no inflation, this means early lps will be earning a percentage of the network jusy by providing liquidity. The KARcommunity will also be able to use Karura for swaps, KUSD loans, and KSM staking as I mentioned before.
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
By the way, what options does Mandala provide to the user?
Dan reecer:
Some details on the liquidity rewards
Dan reecer:
Mandala is just the name of the testnet.
Mandala = testnet
Karura = mainnet on Kusama
Acala = mainnet on Polkadot
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
Thanks for the clear answer, would you like to proceed with the next question?
Dan reecer:
For those interested in the KUSD loans, the Karura DEX, and liquid KSM staking, here is a youtube playlist showing live demos of all of these products:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=pl2tjr9mcaejtw2b3pkdielqkiyrduv9un
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
Thanks a lot for this clarification.
Dan reecer:
Yes, that works. I can stay for 15 more minutes.
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
Q2 from telegram user @victorogb
Kusama has been said to be a ‘cypherpunk heaven’ for developers looking to move fast and push the limits of what’s possible. Karura plans to integrate and capture this vibrant developer community via Kusama and also assist substrate developers with world-class tools and platforms for financial applications. Can you carefully outline some the “haven of benefits” and financial tools kurara will offer developers and budding innovators and how will the synergy between developers and Kusama, effectively benefit Karura?
Dan reecer:
One of the main things to keep is mind is that with Karura and Acala, the defi products called “primitives” are built into the blockchain itself. This is significant for Karura because these are essentially building blocks that other Kusama developers can come and use to build their own apps on Karura leveraging these defi primitives. For example, a dev team could come and take the Karura DEX to use in their own DEX aggregator application, or they could use the kusd stablecoin to build their own fixed income product. The best part is that Karura and Acala can upgrade without forks, so we can continue to build more and more functionality into the chains with a simple blockchain upgrade (unlike Ethereum which hasn’t been able to change/upgrade since it launched years ago)
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
Btw, I think it will help to increase the ecosystem use cases.
Gold rocket | satoshi club:
Agree! Upgrading without forks is a huge benefit! 👍
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
Thank you for the answer, ready for the next question?
Dan reecer:
Yep. Really good questions, by the way.
Andrés m. | satoshi club:
Q3 from telegram user @meml97
On Acala we can get involved on something you called consortium where we can jointly govern and develop the platform, can you tell us more about this group? How can we govern and develop Acala network and how can we be part of it? Also, while looking at Karura’s page I noticed this option isn’t available. Does this mean we can only get involved on Acala? Or by joining one of these platformdwe are already part of the governance and develop of the other one?
Our community is highly interested in this big project😃
Dan reecer:
Great question, and probably something we should add to a future iteration of the Karura webpages.
So, the answer is no, you can get involved in either network, just like today there is separate governance for Kusama and Polkadot ecosystems.
Both Acala and Karura will have extensive on-chain governance operations that govern the network and make decisions on the future. Acala and Karura will both have a “council” of people that are elected by token holders. There will also be specific ‘committees’ that help govern the financial products, like the stablecoin and liquid staking protocol. These will likely be crypto finance experts like gauntlet who we just partnered with (the team that works with aave, compound, maker, etc.).
As a token holder, we’ll definitely encourage as much participation as possible, including voting, discussing governance proposals, electing council members, even running for council yourself.
You can check this out for more info on Acala/Karura governance: https://wiki.Acala.network/learn/basics/governance-overview
PART 2.Questions about the Acala &Karura project from the live chat of the telegram community.
In this part, we open a chat for the crypto community for 120 seconds. Then the guests from the Acala &Karura crypto project choose the top 10 questions. The 10 crypto enthusiasts have earned cryptocurrency in the sum of 100$.
Q – 1 from a telegram user @surendra040
For a newbie user do you have any guide or tutorial video on how to use it?
Hash | dxsale.app:
You can get step by step guide or youtube videos from there
Q – 2 from a telegram user @cryprince
Why did you name your project as DxSale? Does it have any meaning?
Hash | dxsale.app:
Dx was a fun way for us to say decentralization. I really don’t know why and when we got it.
Q – 3 from a telegram user @theprinceofnigeria
It’s the same bots asking questions over and over lol. Fkin jokes?
Hash | dxsale.app:
I agree – lets play a game DM me the answer to 7+2 and i’ll answer your question.
Q – 4 from a telegram user @smelekin
You are saying all procedures are operated by smart contracts so what happens if one of your smart contracts have vulnerable? How can you make sure that your smart contracts are safe?
Hash | dxsale.app:
Smart contracts will be audited. But Audit is no way of confirmation a system is secure. In cybersecurity 101 – No platform is secure, it’s only a matter of time vulnerabilities are found.
This is why you see projects that have been audited in the past become hacked. It’s an ongoing practice for good practice.
Q – 5 from a telegram user @K2ice
On the security aspect, do you think that the DxSALE platform is prone to cloning?
Hash | dxsale.app:
Currently, there are a project that is taking ideas ofc but in terms of actual cloning- none as everything is private until the audit is done.
Q – 6 from a telegram user @Jamesw19
Dxsale.network gets greater adoption and popularity whats to stop dx launchpad from being saturated with too many low quality applications(tokens)?
Hash | dxsale.app:
We can easily tackle this through different filters and what the community considers quality. We will be adding governance to DxSale where the community will decide these things.
Q – 7 from a telegram user @BJosefina61
Your roadmap talks about the release of DxLaunch 1.5, how does this differ from 1.0?
Hash | dxsale.app:
1.0 is a staking and unstacking platform with fees that are distributed to others along with burning.
Q – 8 from a telegram user @Guandog
As we know, NFTs are here to stay disrupting the entire crypto market, can you break down your opinion and vision about NFTs within the platform?
Hash | dxsale.app:
Yes, we have a lot of ambitious ideas around NFTs for our platform, haven’t seen anyone do it like the way we will be approaching the space yet.
Q – 9 from a telegram user @blockchainstake
Do you have liquidity mining program that we can earn there and what are the APY’s we can earn?
Hash | dxsale.app:
in the works with some partners for DxFarming might not be until a couple of quarters. right now there’s a lot we want to do.
Q -10 from a telegram user @dumpspump
You know there are many different blockchains so how many blockchains do you support on your ecosystem?
Hash | dxsale.app:
We currently support 3 – AIM is to support 8-10 then do a big UI overhaul update.
Supported – ZIL, POLY, ETH, BSC
Part 3 – Quiz about project
In the final part, we tested the knowledge in terms of the Acala & Karura project. They’ve prepared 4 questions for this part, so everyone could be a part and answer. Participants had 10 minutes to answer. 300$ was distributed between the winners.
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