The biggest lie we’ve been told in crypto is that banks are ready to use public blockchains. They aren’t. No major fund manager is going to put a $500M trade on a public ledger for their competitors to see. That’s been the wall for years. But if you look at what happened this week with the Dusk mainnet launch (January 2026), that wall is finally coming down.
Dusk isn’t just another coin; it’s a privacy-first infrastructure. They solved the one thing everyone else missed: how to keep a trade private but also legal. Using their PlonKup system, they’ve made it possible for a bank to prove they have the money and are following the law without ever showing their name or the exact trade amount on the screen.
Right now, the most interesting thing is their partnership with the NPEX exchange. We’re seeing over 300 million euros in real stocks and bonds being tokenized. This is the first time in Europe that we’re seeing "Real World Assets" actually work at scale. For anyone watching the market in 2026, Dusk is the only project that isn’t just talking about "DeFi"—they are actually building the plumbing for the future of global finance.
