# Acala wins first Polkadot parachain auction with over 32M DOT staked
“# Acala wins first Polkadot parachain auction with over 32M DOT staked ” On Thursday morning, Acala, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol operating on the Polkadot (DOT) network, announced it had won the first-ever Polkadot parachain auction. Acala raised a total of 32.5 million DOT, worth roughly $1.28 billion, from 24,934 contributors via an initial coin…