• I’ve started thinking of most L1s like glass houses: great for openness, terrible for regulated finance. #Dusk is one of the few networks that’s openly designing for the opposite reality—markets where privacy is required, but accountability still exists. 

  • The core idea is simple: you shouldn’t have to publish sensitive trade details, identities, or balances to prove a transaction is valid. Dusk leans on zero-knowledge tech so validity can be verified without turning the chain into a public ledger of everyone’s financial behavior. 

  • What makes it feel “finance-native” is DuskDS: their settlement + consensus + data availability layer built around Succinct Attestation, aiming for fast, deterministic finality (the kind that matters when you’re settling securities, not memes). 

  • And it’s not just speed—DuskDS uses randomly selected provisioners/committees, which is the quiet part of PoS security most people ignore until something breaks. 

  • The “newer” move I actually like: $DUSK is going modular. Instead of forcing everyone into a custom environment, they’re pushing DuskEVM so builders can use familiar Solidity workflows while still targeting confidential financial use cases. 

  • A big June 2025 update was Hedger—a privacy engine purpose-built for DuskEVM that combines homomorphic encryption with zero-knowledge proofs to enable confidential transactions while staying compliance-friendly. That’s the type of tooling institutions care about. 

  • Interop got real in 2025 too: Dusk launched a two-way bridge so native DUSK can move to BEP20 on BSC and back, which is a practical step for liquidity and access while the stack matures. 

  • Then the November 2025 upgrade that matters for 2026 narratives: Dusk + NPEX integrating Chainlink CCIP as the canonical cross-chain layer for tokenized assets issued on DuskEVM—plus adopting Chainlink data standards (DataLink + Data Streams) for verified exchange/market data on-chain. This is basically Dusk saying: “regulated assets need regulated-grade plumbing.” 

  • On the “operational” side, mainnet being live is reflected in the migration flow: ERC20/BEP20 DUSK can be migrated to native DUSK via a burner/migration process (docs + repo detail the mechanism). 

  • The reason I think this is underrated is because Dusk isn’t trying to win the retail attention war. It’s building for the lane where tokenized securities, compliant RWAs, and institutional-grade settlement need privacy and provability—two things most chains treat like oil and water. 

  • What I’m watching next is straightforward: more DuskEVM traction, more “real” integrations that require verified data + compliance constraints, and whether the cross-chain RWA story becomes a default expectation (not a nice-to-have). 

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