# Treasury [Watch the Acala Treasury intro video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh8g89OPFH8) The Acala Treasury is a reserve of digital tokens, native and foreign to the Acala ecosystem, stewarded by ACA holders and funded from Acala protocol fees and community contribution events with the purpose of enabling long-term network self-sustainability and growth. Deployment of the Treasury is primarily focused on * Self-funding a parachain slots on Polkadot * Bootstrapping protocol liquidity (e.g. provide LKSM, kUSD or DEX pair liquidity) * Platform and protocol operations and improvements * Network security operations and enhancements Further surplus can be deployed for * Software and tool development * Community, marketing, and event funding * Any other future community Karura Treasury Proposals (KTPs) ## Existential Goal The primary objective of the Acala Treasury is to build up its DOT reserve to ensure Acala has a sustainable reservoir of DOT to lease a parachain slot from Kusama for the foreseeable future. The Treasury can trustlessly deploy the tokens to bond a parachain for itself to sustain its operation, bootstrap liquidity of the DeFi protocols on Acala to solve the chick-and-egg problem of market makers and takers hence benefiting the entire network. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wiki.acala.network/learn/treasury.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.