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Has anyone noticed that, without us realizing it, the frequency and value of Alpha's airdrops have both decreased? In the past, there were often two airdrops per day, sometimes even three. Now it's only one per day, and instead of new tokens, they're just using old ones. The value is strictly limited to 30u. Occasionally, a token that sells quickly might go up to a few over 50, but never reaches 100. Back then, the minimum was always over 100. The endless competitions have also dwindled. Yesterday's new H competition only had 2,000 spots. Anyone who's participated in competitions knows that anything below 10,000 is extremely competitive. With only 2,000 spots, it's essentially the same as not being on the list at all.

Dusk Network
Positioned at the intersection of public blockchain and strict regulation, aiming to achieve "regulated finance on-chain." Unlike fully anonymous privacy coins or pure DeFi narratives, Dusk addresses the core conflict between privacy leakage and regulatory blind spots through zero-knowledge compliance infrastructure. After mainnet launch, the selective disclosure mechanism ensures transactions are default-private, yet allows regulators to audit key information, perfectly aligning with regulations such as MiCA and MiFID II.
Partnership lineup enhancement positioning: NPEX provides regulated exchange channels, enabling the secondary market for digital securities; QuantozPay supports MiCA-compliant stablecoin integration; custodian banking partnerships ensure institutional-grade custody. Full on-chain coverage from issuance to settlement reduces intermediaries and improves efficiency, opening new pathways for SME financing and institutional clearing and settlement. Lightspeed L2 plan further enhances performance, supporting high-speed EVM-compatible applications.

January 2026, Dusk Network
The mainnet has been operating for a full year, marking the project's transition from a six-year development cycle into a mature production phase. The mainnet employs the Succinct Attestation consensus mechanism, combined with the Phoenix 2.0 transaction model, enabling native support for private transactions and smart contracts. Performance tests show that the gas cost for deploying XSC contracts or conducting private asset transfers is extremely low, with short block times and moderate throughput, making it suitable for use cases such as security issuance and clearing & settlement. The launch of DuskEVM significantly lowers the barrier for developers, as Solidity compatibility allows existing DeFi tools to be migrated while preserving the zk privacy layer, preventing data leaks.

Dusk Network@Dusk , designed as a Layer-1 blockchain specifically for regulated financial markets, has entered its mainnet stabilization phase in January 2026. Since the mainnet activation in early 2025, the network has been continuously operating, processing millions of privacy-preserving transactions and smart contract calls. The core consensus mechanism, Succinct Attestation, combined with an efficient BFT variant, achieves sub-second finality, with gas fees maintained at a few cents, making it ideal for high-frequency financial interactions. The DuskEVM compatibility layer has been launched, allowing developers to directly deploy Solidity contracts while retaining native zero-knowledge privacy features, providing a key technological foundation for RWA (Real World Asset) tokenization.

Dusk Network
Clear positioning: Building a permissionless blockchain that meets stringent financial regulatory requirements. Unlike fully anonymous privacy coins or pure DeFi projects, Dusk's core value proposition is "regulated finance on-chain." After mainnet launch, XSC standards will support native issuance of security tokens: encrypted shareholder information, restricted transfers, and optional public compliance audits. This design directly addresses the conflict between traditional finance and blockchain—privacy leakage versus regulatory blind spots.
Under the EU MiCA regulatory framework, Dusk's zero-knowledge compliance infrastructure advantages become evident. Partners include NPEX (a Dutch MTF exchange) and QuantozPay (a MiCA-compliant digital euro issuer), with partial real-world asset tokenization and secondary market exploration already achieved. The end-to-end on-chain process (issuance, clearance, settlement) reduces intermediaries, lowers costs, and provides an efficient pathway for SME financing and institutional clearing and settlement. The Lightspeed L2 initiative further enhances performance, enabling high-speed DeFi with EVM compatibility.

The mainnet of Dusk Network was officially activated by the end of 2025 and has entered a stable phase since January 2026. Users can directly transfer DUSK, stake, and run a light node via the official wallet without requiring full node hardware. The zk implementation of the Phoenix protocol makes private transactions a routine operation: sender, receiver, amount, and memo are all encrypted, and only authorized parties with the viewing key can decrypt and view them. This 'verifiable privacy' differs from Monero's complete anonymity and is better suited for financial scenarios requiring auditability.
Extremely low gas fees are a major highlight of the mainnet. Deploying simple XSC contracts or conducting private transactions typically costs less than $0.01, with short block times and moderate throughput, making it ideal for high-frequency, small-scale financial interactions. The staking mechanism is based on Succinct Attestation, offering fast finality and mild penalties (significantly lower than the slash risks on certain PoS chains). After setting auto-compound in the light wallet, rewards are automatically accumulated daily, greatly lowering the barrier to participation in network security.

Dusk Network
As a Layer-1 blockchain focused on privacy protection, since its launch in 2018, it has consistently targeted the "regulated real-world finance" sector. In January 2026, the mainnet has been running stably for several weeks, marking the project's official transition from years of testnet phase into production environment. Unlike many privacy coins that pursue extreme anonymity, Dusk's core design is "selective privacy": using zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and the Phoenix protocol to encrypt transactions and smart contract data, while allowing regulators or authorized parties to view necessary information via a viewing key. This mechanism directly addresses requirements from EU regulations such as MiCA and MiFID II, providing institutions with compliant yet confidential on-chain tools.