Today’s financial markets remain slow and expensive. Even tokenized assets often suffer from multiple intermediaries, delayed settlement, and opaque processes that limit efficiency and increase costs. Builders and institutions struggle to deploy products that deliver real-time liquidity without regulatory compromise. The cause is structural: traditional exchanges and tokenization layers add complexity but don’t remove the underlying friction. Trades may require custodians, clearinghouses, and delayed reconciliations, which slows capital movement and disincentivizes innovation. Dusk resolves this with its native issuance and DuskDS architecture, where assets are issued on-chain and settle directly. Coupled with privacy-preserving layers and compliance-ready workflows, trades execute in seconds, ownership is direct, and middleman costs vanish. The upcoming DuskEVM layer further enables builders to connect Ethereum dApps while maintaining these efficiencies. The broader impact is profound. Builders can create compliant, high-speed products; institutions gain confidence to experiment with tokenized assets; and the ecosystem matures toward 24/7 global markets. Dusk demonstrates that efficiency and regulatory alignment are not trade-offs but achievable outcomes for the next generation of on-chain finance.
