The @Dusk is a decentralized infrastructure provider and non-profit organization that governs the development of Dusk, a Layer-1 blockchain specifically engineered for regulated financial markets.
As of early 2026, the foundation is executing a roadmap focused on bringing institutional finance on-chain through advanced privacy and compliance technologies.
Core Technology Stack
Dusk utilizes a modular architecture designed to combine the privacy of confidential transactions with the transparency required for regulatory audits.
DuskDS (Data & Settlement Layer): The network's foundation, upgraded in late 2025 to optimize network stability and finality ahead of full-scale 2026 operations.
Succinct Attestation (SA) Consensus: A purpose-built Proof-of-Stake mechanism that ensures instant, deterministic finality, which is essential for the legal settlement of securities.
DuskEVM: An EVM-compatible execution environment launched in early 2026, allowing developers to build private decentralized applications (dApps) using familiar Solidity tools.
Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Privacy: Uses advanced cryptography (including the Poseidon hashing algorithm and ZeroCaf elliptic curve) to hide transaction amounts and participant identities while remaining verifiable by authorized parties.
Key Strategic Initiatives for 2026
The Dusk Foundation is transitioning from research to full-scale adoption in 2026 with several major product rollouts:
STOX Platform (Q1 2026): A decentralized application for trading tokenized securities and real-world assets (RWAs), initially launching with over €300 million in on-chain assets from partners like NPEX.
Dusk Pay (Q1 2026): A payment solution compliant with the EU’s MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets) regulations, allowing businesses to accept stablecoins privately.
Regulatory Licensing: Following its 2025 partnership with the Dutch exchange NPEX, the foundation is pursuing DLT-TSS and ATS licenses in 2026 to enable the native issuance and secondary trading of digital securities under EU law.
The DUSK Token
The #dusk token is the native utility currency of the network.
Utility: Used for paying transaction fees, deploying confidential smart contracts, and staking to secure the network.
Availability: As of January 2026, DUSK is trading at approximately $0.05 with a circulating supply of roughly 487 million tokens. Native mainnet DUSK can be migrated from earlier ERC-20 and BEP-20 versions via a dedicated burner contract.
