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Polkadot Parachain Astar Launches $100M Boost Incentive Program

The new fund will offer liquidity and financial support for smart contract developers.

By Brandy Betz
AccessTimeIconFeb 11, 2022 at 12:07 p.m. UTC
Updated May 11, 2023 at 7:18 p.m. UTC
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Astar Network, a parachain or parallel chain of the Polkadot network, has announced the $100 million Astar Boost Program fund to provide liquidity and offer financial support and incentive programs to smart contract developers. The company told CoinDesk that the program was funded through $22 million in fundraising, as well as an allocation of the native ASTR token.

  • Last month, Astar raised $22 million from crypto venture capital firms Alameda Research and Polychain Capital.
  • Polkadot, a framework for connecting various blockchains, doesn't support smart contracts on its main Relay Chain. Astar provides that support for smart contract developers.
  • Astar also lets developers earn tokens for building smart contracts or infrastructure, supported by the #Build2Earn protocol and paid out in ASTR.
  • The new Astar Boost Program has already supported liquidity and incentives for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on the protocol, including decentralized exchanges ArthSwap and PolkaEx, and multichain asset bridge Celer cBridge.
  • “Astar Network will support projects committing to Astar financially by Astar Boost Program as well as dApp Staking, our original incentive system for developers,” Sota Watanabe, founder of Astar Network, said in the announcement blog. “We expect to grow rapidly together. Through this program, our community will be extra rewarded for their on-chain activity.”
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