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Vou começar com a sensação que a maioria das pessoas nunca admite em voz alta. As stablecoins deveriam ser simples. Você possui dólares digitais. Você envia dólares digitais. Alguém recebe dólares digitais. Esse é o sonho. No entanto, no momento em que você realmente tenta usá-los na vida real, o sonho muitas vezes se quebra. Você abre uma carteira e descobre que precisa de um token separado apenas para pagar uma taxa. Você tenta trocar, mas a troca precisa de outra taxa. Você aguarda confirmações enquanto a pessoa do outro lado pergunta se chegou. Se você é novo, pode se sentir envergonhado. Se você é experiente, pode se sentir exausto. Fica claro que muitas blockchains foram construídas para usuários avançados primeiro e pagamentos do dia a dia em segundo lugar.

Estou vendo uma mudança silenciosa, mas poderosa, acontecendo no mundo das criptomoedas e na internet em geral. Por muito tempo, aceitamos um acordo sem realmente lê-lo. Carregamos nossas memórias, nosso trabalho, nossas comunidades e nosso valor em plataformas que parecem permanentes até o dia em que, de repente, não são mais. Uma atualização de política, uma queda, um bloqueio de conta e a verdade se torna óbvia. Nunca fomos proprietários. Fomos inquilinos. Walrus é construído para esse exato momento de percepção. Torna-se um projeto que trata armazenamento, privacidade e disponibilidade como infraestrutura essencial em vez de recursos opcionais.

Vou começar com uma cena que parece familiar demais. Alguém que você ama está esperando por ajuda. Uma conta está vencida. Um fornecedor de negócios precisa de pagamento hoje. Você abre seu telefone e não se importa com espaço em bloco ou narrativas. Você se importa com certeza. Você se importa com velocidade. Você se importa em não perder dinheiro com taxas que parecem injustas. Estamos vendo os stablecoins se tornarem a ferramenta que as pessoas usam exatamente nesses momentos, porque os stablecoins parecem uma unidade estável em um mundo que pode ser instável. Mas também estamos vendo algo frustrante. O stablecoin em si pode ser simples, enquanto os trilhos abaixo ainda podem parecer complicados, lentos e caros. O Plasma existe porque essa lacuna é real. Eles estão construindo uma blockchain de Camada 1 projetada em torno da liquidação de stablecoins como o principal trabalho, não como uma característica secundária.

Eu vou começar com um sentimento. A internet nos torna corajosos. Nós postamos. Nós construímos. Nós mintamos. Nós enviamos. Então, em um dia tranquilo, um link morre. Um front end falha. Uma imagem de coleção se torna uma caixa em branco. Um conjunto de dados desaparece. Esse momento não apenas quebra um produto. Ele quebra a confiança. Faz você perceber o quanto de sua vida digital ainda é alugada e quão rapidamente as coisas alugadas podem ser levadas.

O Walrus existe para aquele exato momento. Eles estão construindo armazenamento de blob descentralizado que é destinado a sobreviver ao caos do mundo real. Não o mundo perfeito do laboratório. O mundo real onde os nós ficam offline e os mercados mudam e as equipes vão e vêm. Estamos vendo os construtores exigirem durabilidade porque a próxima onda de aplicativos é pesada em dados e pesada em mídia e pesada em IA. O Walrus é projetado para carregar esse peso sem pedir que você aposte seu futuro em um servidor ou uma empresa.

Eu vi a internet recompensar pessoas por construir, criar e compartilhar, e depois puni-las sem aviso quando as regras mudam de repente. Um criador acorda com uma conta bloqueada. Uma startup perde acesso a um painel de nuvem. O arquivo de uma comunidade desaparece porque uma fatura de hospedagem não foi paga. Um jogo perde seus arquivos de mídia porque um provedor mudou uma política. Nesse momento, é difícil: a maior parte do que chamamos de propriedade online é, na verdade, permissão. E a permissão pode ser retirada. Essa é a ferida emocional que a Walrus está tentando curar, e é por isso que este projeto parece maior do que um gráfico de token ou uma narrativa em alta. Não se trata apenas de armazenamento. Trata-se de certeza. Trata-se de ser capaz de construir sem medo.

I’m going to start with a feeling that many people hide behind charts and hype. Public blockchains can feel like a bright room with no curtains. Everything is visible. Every move can be traced. Every pattern can be studied. For some use cases that is powerful. For real finance it can be terrifying. It is not only about hiding. It is about safety. It is about dignity. It is about being able to participate in markets without turning your life into permanent public metadata.

That is the emotional space where Dusk was born. Dusk Foundation began in 2018 with a clear goal. Build a Layer 1 blockchain designed for regulated and privacy focused financial infrastructure with privacy and auditability built in by design.

If you have ever tried to imagine institutions settling serious assets on a fully transparent chain you will understand the tension. Institutions must protect clients. They must meet confidentiality obligations. They must pass audits. They must follow rules that exist long before blockchains. At the same time regulators and auditors must be able to verify that rules were followed. Most networks force a painful choice. Either everything is public and the market leaks sensitive information. Or everything is hidden and oversight becomes harder. Dusk is trying to live in the middle with a system that treats privacy and compliance as partners rather than enemies.

What Dusk is trying to build becomes clearer when you think like a market operator. Real markets require final settlement that feels final. They require predictable execution. They require the ability to prove what happened without exposing everything to everyone. Dusk positions itself as a settlement network for markets with fast final settlement and deterministic finality once a block is ratified. When a system offers deterministic finality it is not just a technical detail. It is the moment participants can breathe. It is the difference between confidence and constant anxiety.

Dusk does not keep its design vague. They describe a two layer architecture. DuskDS is the settlement and data layer that includes consensus data availability and transaction models. DuskEVM is the EVM execution layer where smart contracts run and where a component called Hedger lives. I like this separation because it matches how serious infrastructure is built in the real world. Rails stay stable. Applications evolve on top. It becomes easier to trust the settlement core when it is designed for settlement first rather than trying to be everything at once.

Now let us talk about the part that makes Dusk feel different at a human level. DuskDS supports multiple transaction models. In their documentation they explain that the settlement layer includes transaction models that shape how privacy and settlement work under the hood. This is not just academic. It is a direct answer to the question everyone asks in regulated finance. How do we keep confidentiality while still proving correctness.

Dusk describes two major models on DuskDS. Moonlight is the transparent account based model. Phoenix is the shielded note based model built with zero knowledge proofs. Moonlight fits scenarios where transparency is required or simply preferred. Phoenix exists for the moments where transparency becomes dangerous or unfair. Instead of exposing balances and links publicly Phoenix uses cryptographic proofs so the network can verify validity without revealing sensitive details in the clear.

This is where the story becomes personal. Imagine I’m running a business and I pay suppliers. I do not want competitors mapping my supply chain. Imagine I’m moving treasury funds and I do not want attackers profiling my cash flow. Imagine I’m managing a portfolio and I do not want the whole world front running my intent. We’re seeing this pain across the industry because fully public intent is a gift to adversaries. Phoenix is built for those moments.

But Dusk is not selling the fantasy of a chain where nobody can ever know anything. They lean into selective disclosure as a principle. Their documentation frames the network as privacy by design while still enabling auditability and market suitability. The idea is simple. Keep sensitive details private from the public. Still allow the right parties to verify what must be verified when there is legitimate need. It becomes privacy that can coexist with audits rather than privacy that breaks audits.

On the smart contract side DuskEVM is described as an EVM equivalent execution environment inside the modular Dusk stack. It lets developers deploy smart contracts using standard EVM tooling while inheriting the security consensus and settlement guarantees from DuskDS. That matters because adoption is not only about features. It is about developer reality. If builders can use familiar tooling while benefiting from a settlement layer designed for regulated markets then the path to real applications becomes more believable.

For a network that wants to be financial market infrastructure the consensus layer must reflect that ambition. DuskDS uses a consensus protocol called Succinct Attestation. Their docs describe it as permissionless and committee based proof of stake that uses randomly selected provisioners to propose validate and ratify blocks and that provides fast deterministic finality suitable for financial markets. Provisioners are the staked participants who help secure the chain by performing those duties during rounds.

If you want a deeper foundation beyond docs and blog language you can also look at the Dusk Network whitepaper that introduces the protocol as a proof of stake based design and discusses strong finality guarantees and privacy preservation for the native asset. The fact that both the docs and the academic style description emphasize finality and privacy is important. They are not treating this as optional. They are treating it as the core.

Now let us connect consensus to incentives because incentives are where networks either become reliable or become fragile. Dusk uses the DUSK token as the fuel for security and usage. Their tokenomics documentation describes DUSK as used for staking and for network fees and for paying for services on the network. That is the basic shape you would expect from a proof of stake settlement network.

They also describe a slashing approach. Dusk uses soft slashing to discourage misbehavior and long downtime from provisioners. They emphasize that the protocol does not burn a provisioners staked DUSK and instead temporarily reduces how that stake participates and earns rewards. This kind of design choice matters for culture. A settlement network for markets must push operators toward reliability and up to date software and consistent participation. It becomes less about drama and more about stability.

If you have ever watched how traditional market infrastructure is operated you know that uptime and procedure are sacred. Networks that want to serve that world must enforce professionalism at the protocol level. Soft slashing is part of that story.

Dusk also made its transition from years of research into live infrastructure through a staged mainnet rollout. In their official news post they announced that the mainnet rollout began in December 2024. They described activating the mainnet onramp contract. They described onramping early stakes into the genesis state on December 29. They described deploying the mainnet cluster and scheduling the first immutable block for January 7 2025. That timeline signals a careful approach. They treated mainnet like infrastructure deployment rather than a single moment of celebration.

This matters because trust is built through execution. A privacy and compliance focused Layer 1 does not win by shouting. It wins by proving that it can run like a piece of market plumbing. The first immutable block date is not just a date. It is a psychological switch from theory into responsibility.

There is also an open documentation effort around the protocol itself. The dusk protocol repository describes its purpose as hosting complete and formal documentation about the protocol and components such as consensus network virtual machine and smart contracts. That is the kind of sign you want to see when a network is aiming for institutional grade usage. Formal specs and clear documentation reduce uncertainty for builders and auditors and operators.

So what can be built on top of this and why does the world need it. The strongest use case narrative around Dusk is regulated assets and compliant finance. Tokenized real world assets are not just about minting a token. They are about lifecycle management. They are about transfer rules. They are about settlement guarantees. They are about audit readiness. Many chains can tokenize. Fewer chains can handle the reality of regulated workflows without leaking data.

Dusk tries to solve that by providing a settlement layer where privacy can be native and where final settlement is designed for markets. It becomes possible to imagine assets that trade on chain while sensitive information stays protected and while necessary verification can still be done through cryptographic proofs and controlled disclosure pathways.

And this is where the emotional trigger becomes real. When finance becomes programmable it can become more open. It can reduce friction. It can reduce settlement time. It can reduce layers of middlemen. But if it becomes programmable without privacy it can also become cruel. It can turn every participant into a target. It can reward surveillance and manipulation. Dusk is trying to shape a future where programmable markets do not require public exposure as the entry fee.

I’m also watching how Dusk balances familiarity and innovation. DuskEVM is a clear signal. They are meeting developers where they already are by supporting EVM style tooling and deployment paths while tying that execution layer to a settlement layer designed for regulated markets. They’re saying you do not have to reinvent everything to build here. You can use tools you know and still benefit from an architecture built for privacy and auditability.

If you step back the story becomes simple. Dusk is building rails for a world that is coming whether we like it or not. Regulated assets will move on chain. Institutions will demand privacy and compliance readiness. Users will demand safety and dignity. Regulators will demand verifiable truth. Dusk is trying to offer a single Layer 1 where those demands do not destroy each other.

We’re seeing the industry slowly move from loud experiments to quieter infrastructure. In that era the winners will be networks that can settle value with finality and can protect sensitive information and can still prove correctness. Dusk is positioning itself as exactly that. Fast final settlement. Deterministic finality once blocks are ratified. A proof of stake consensus model with committee selection and provisioners. A modular stack that separates settlement from execution. Transaction models that include transparent flows and shielded flows. Token incentives that reward reliable operators and discourage long downtime through soft slashing. A mainnet rollout that culminated in the first immutable block on January 7 2025.

Now the vision. If Dusk executes at scale it can help shape a future where financial markets become both more modern and more humane. It becomes possible for institutions to issue and settle regulated assets on chain without exposing clients. It becomes possible for businesses to transact without revealing their entire operational map to competitors. It becomes possible for everyday users to participate in on chain markets without feeling watched. At the same time oversight can still exist because proofs and deterministic settlement provide a foundation for auditability.

That is the future Dusk is reaching for. A world where privacy is not treated as suspicious. A world where compliance is not treated as surveillance. A world where markets can be open and verifiable without forcing everyone to become transparent by default. If that future arrives Dusk will not just be another chain. It will be part of the invisible backbone that lets regulated finance finally move on chain in a way that feels safe.

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Eu continuo voltando a um sentimento que muitas pessoas ignoram até que elas o sintam no peito. Na verdadeira finança, a visibilidade pode ser perigosa. Um banco não quer que cada trilha de pagamento seja exposta a estranhos. Um fundo não quer que sua estratégia seja mapeada em público. Um negócio não quer que suas decisões de tesouraria se tornem um sinal que os concorrentes possam observar em tempo real. Se a blockchain vai impulsionar mercados regulamentados, então a privacidade não é um bônus. Ela se torna sobrevivência.

A Fundação Dusk começou a construir essa realidade em 2018 com uma direção clara. Eles estão criando uma blockchain de camada um projetada para infraestrutura financeira regulamentada onde a privacidade e a auditabilidade estão embutidas por design. A missão não é esconder tudo. A missão é proteger informações sensíveis enquanto ainda permite verificação e supervisão quando necessário. Essa é a diferença entre segredo e controle. É também por isso que a Dusk foca na divulgação seletiva com criptografia avançada, para que as partes certas possam provar conformidade sem transformar todo o mercado em um diário público.