>>60661604The difference is, when you wrap a token a centralized db is being trusted to hold the underlying token 1-1 when they mint the wrapped version. Wbtc for example is on paper insanely vulnerable. Renbtc, a wrapped Bitcoin on ether, failed and people lost underlying btc as a result.
Flare is attempting to decentralize this, you send your token to an agent on the flare network, of which there are many, who must maintain a 1.3 collateral ratio and you get back the fasset(wrapped token). It remains to be seen if this will see any adoption or anyone will trust it or of it's vulnerable in some way that is not understood yet.
It was principally created to make xrp a token that could be collateralized and be the money for an Ethereum virtual machine, thereby allow xrp to be used in defi, which up until now remains impossible.
Defi had its moment, if these guys actually launched on schedule they might have had something, now they are now going on 6 years late, dozens of broken promises and rule changes later, so who knows if anything will come of it.