#dusk $DUSK
In regulated finance, the hard part isn’t moving value—it’s deciding who is allowed to see what, and proving it later without oversharing in the moment.
Dusk’s north star reads like “selective transparency”: privacy for participants, but a clear audit path for institutions and regulators when disclosure is required.
Its modular approach matters because it lets builders separate the “settlement and data plumbing” from the application layer, instead of forcing every product to reinvent compliance controls.
That’s why recent work like Hedger’s public alpha (confidential transactions for the EVM side) feels less like a feature drop and more like a missing instrument finally being added to the cockpit. 
On November 10, 2025, Dusk shipped the Rusk upgrade to the DuskDS (Nocturne) testnet to unify settlement + data availability, a concrete step toward production-grade modular finance infrastructure. 
As of January 21, 2026, CoinMarketCap reports roughly $116,251,271 in 24-hour trading volume for DUSK—useful context because liquidity is a prerequisite for serious financial workflows, not a vanity metric.
The takeaway: Dusk is building the kind of privacy-with-proof infrastructure that regulated markets can actually operate on without turning every transaction into a public broadcast.