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#Walrus @Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL
Иногда я читаю о крипто-проекте, и могу сказать, что он стремится привлечь внимание. Много громких слов, много шумихи, но когда я спрашиваю себя, что это на самом деле меняет в реальной жизни, ответ слабый.
Walrus ощущается иначе. Он не пытается впечатлить вас шумом. Он пытается исправить что-то, что тихо причиняет боль интернету каждый день: хранение данных. Это не крошечная текстовая заметка. Я имею в виду тяжелые вещи, такие как изображения, видео, документы, контент приложений, игровые активы и наборы данных ИИ.
Большая часть этого контента все еще находится на централизованных серверах. Это звучит нормально, пока не станет иначе. Сервис отключается. Компания меняет правила. Учетная запись замораживается. Регион блокируется. Даже когда ничего плохого не происходит, вы все равно арендуете пространство у кого-то, кто может сказать 'нет' завтра.

#Dusk @Dusk $DUSK
Dusk is a Layer 1 blockchain that is built for finance where privacy and rules both matter. Not the kind of privacy that says hide everything forever, but the kind that says protect people’s data by default, then prove things are correct when someone is allowed to check. That is the core idea you keep seeing in Dusk’s design: privacy by design, and transparency only when it is needed.
It started in 2018, and over time it shaped itself around one very specific mission: regulated financial activity on-chain. That includes things like tokenized real world assets, compliant DeFi, and financial apps that institutions can actually use without feeling like they are gambling with customer data or legal risk.
What Dusk is
At a high level, Dusk is not just one piece. It is a stack.
DuskDS is the base layer that does settlement, consensus, and the core ways value moves.
DuskEVM is an execution environment where developers can run Ethereum style smart contracts with standard EVM tools, while still settling on DuskDS.
DuskVM is a WASM based execution environment that is designed to be ZK friendly for privacy focused apps.
This modular approach matters because finance has different needs in different situations. Sometimes you need full transparency. Sometimes you need privacy. Sometimes you need both, but only for the right people. Dusk is built to support multiple lanes without rebuilding the whole chain every time.
Why Dusk matters
Most blockchains force you to choose:
If everything is public, then the whole world can watch balances, trading moves, business flows, and customer activity. That can be a deal breaker for real companies.
If everything is private, regulators and auditors often cannot do their job, and big institutions will not touch it.
Dusk tries to sit in the middle. It aims to give users and businesses privacy for normal operation, while still making it possible to prove compliance and allow audits when required. The docs describe this idea directly: shielded transactions when you want privacy, and public transactions when you need visibility, with the ability to reveal information to authorized parties when required.
This is not just philosophy. Dusk’s partnership story is also built around the same goal: bringing regulated activity like issuance, trading, and settlement under a real legal framework. In its NPEX partnership post, Dusk says the setup is meant to unlock compliant issuance, onboarding, and composable licensed apps under one shared framework.
If Dusk succeeds, the win is simple: real financial products can move on-chain without forcing the world to accept total transparency or total darkness.
How Dusk works
1. Two ways to move value: Moonlight and Phoenix
Dusk has two native transaction models living on the same chain.
Moonlight is the transparent option. It works like a normal account model: balances are visible, and transfers show sender, receiver, and amount. It fits situations where reporting and clear tracking are needed.
Phoenix is the privacy option. Instead of public balances, funds live as encrypted notes. When you spend, you do not reveal everything to the public. You prove the transaction is valid with zero knowledge proofs, meaning the network can be confident the rules are followed, without seeing the private details. The docs describe Phoenix as shielded, note based transfers using zero knowledge proofs, and they explicitly say it can hide who sent, how much moved, and which notes were used, while still proving no double spends and enough funds.
The important emotional point here is this: people do not want their entire financial life exposed forever. Businesses do not want competitors watching every move. Phoenix is built to stop that feeling of being watched, while still keeping the chain honest.
2. The Transfer Contract: the traffic controller
On DuskDS, there is a Transfer Contract that coordinates value movement. It accepts Moonlight style and Phoenix style payloads, routes them to the right checks, and keeps the global state consistent.
So instead of having two separate chains, Dusk treats it like one settlement layer with two ways to express a transfer. Same chain, different visibility.
3. Consensus and finality that is built for finance
Finance hates uncertainty. If a trade might be reversed later, it creates stress, risk, and expensive back-office work.
DuskDS uses a proof of stake setup where different groups have roles in a round: proposal, validation, and ratification, aiming for fast deterministic finality. The docs describe this as Succinct Attestation, a committee based proof of stake protocol using randomly selected provisioners to propose, validate, and ratify blocks.
The 2024 Dusk whitepaper also frames the goal clearly: finality in seconds, aligned with the needs of financial systems, plus two transaction models Moonlight and Phoenix to balance privacy and compliance.
4. Execution layers: where smart contracts actually run
Dusk is modular. Settlement is one layer, execution can be many layers.
DuskEVM is described as EVM equivalent, meaning it follows the same execution rules as Ethereum clients so normal Ethereum tools can work without custom changes. The docs also say it leverages the OP Stack and supports EIP 4844.
That matters because adoption often lives or dies on developer comfort. If builders can use familiar tools, they ship faster, integrations get easier, and the ecosystem grows more naturally.
DuskVM is a separate WASM based environment designed for privacy focused apps and ZK operations. The core components docs describe it as ZK friendly and built around Wasmtime.
Mainnet timeline in simple words
Dusk’s mainnet rollout was publicly described as starting December 20, 2024, with the first immutable block scheduled for January 7, 2025.
Since then, Dusk has continued publishing milestone updates like Phoenix 2.0 specifications, which aimed to simplify how the native token is sent to smart contracts.
Tokenomics and token utility
Dusk’s token is DUSK.
Supply structure
According to the official tokenomics docs:
Initial supply: 500,000,000 DUSK
Emitted supply over time: 500,000,000 DUSK over 36 years
Maximum supply: 1,000,000,000 DUSK
So the design is basically: half exists from the start, and the other half is released slowly to pay stakers and secure the network.
Allocation of the initial supply
The tokenomics page lists how the initial 500,000,000 DUSK was allocated, and states vesting ran from May 2019 to April 2022:
Token sale: 50 percent
Team: 6.4 percent
Advisors: 6.4 percent
Development: 18.1 percent
Exchange: 11.8 percent
Marketing: 7.3 percent
What DUSK is used for
DUSK has clear roles in the network:
staking for consensus participation
rewards to consensus participants
paying network fees and gas
deploying dApps
paying for services on the network
The docs also define the gas unit relationship: gas price is in LUX, where 1 LUX = 10 to the power of minus 9 DUSK.
Emissions: how rewards decrease over time
Dusk uses a long, decaying emission schedule:
36 years total, split into 9 periods of 4 years
emissions reduce every 4 years using a geometric decay mode
the docs explicitly say the reduction rate starts at r = 0.5, meaning emissions halve every 4 years
The same page even gives the first periods in plain numbers, showing high early emission per block and then systematic reductions over time.
This kind of design is trying to balance two feelings that often fight each other:
early on, you need strong rewards so enough people secure the chain
later, you want real usage and fees to matter more, so long term holders do not feel endlessly diluted
Incentives and fee handling
The docs say each block reward includes newly emitted DUSK plus transaction fees, and then it is distributed across roles in Succinct Attestation, including a development fund share. It also mentions that any undistributed part of a certain reward portion is burned as part of the gas burning mechanism.
Slashing: how the network punishes bad behavior
Dusk describes using soft slashing, where stake is not burned, but its ability to participate and earn rewards can be reduced temporarily. The docs explain this is used for repeated faults like running outdated software or missing assigned duties, and the penalties include suspension and a reduction in effective stake for selection.
That is a very finance friendly approach. It is less about destroying people, and more about protecting the system and rewarding reliability.
Ecosystem: what gets built on Dusk
1. Regulated assets and compliant market activity
Dusk’s own messaging focuses heavily on real world assets and regulated finance. Its NPEX partnership post lists the kinds of regulated activity it wants to support, including issuance, investment, trading, and settlement under a shared framework, plus ideas like single KYC onboarding across the ecosystem.
This is the part that institutions care about most. They do not just want a chain. They want a chain that understands the rules of the world they live in.
2. Confidential smart contracts and selective disclosure use cases
Dusk’s use case pages describe confidential smart contracts and scenarios like smart bulletin boards, where qualified buyers and sellers can be matched and then execute a trade.
It also frames its approach as bringing classic finance on-chain with privacy tools for identity, security tokens, and compliance.
3. Developer and open source activity
Dusk maintains a large GitHub org with many repos, including:
rusk, a reference platform implementation and tools
plonk, a Rust implementation of the PLONK proof system
piecrust, a WASM VM for running smart contracts
phoenix, the transaction model repo
This matters because in privacy tech, trust is earned when people can inspect code and tooling, not just read marketing lines.
Roadmap: what to watch next
I am going to keep this grounded in what is publicly described in official docs and widely discussed tracking sources, because roadmap talk can get messy.
What is clearly already in the architecture path
From Dusk docs, you can see the direction:
deeper modularity between DuskDS and execution layers
growth of DuskEVM as a core execution lane for developers using standard EVM tools
continued development of privacy focused execution environments
Regulated trading with NPEX
Dusk’s NPEX partnership post is basically a giant signal that the roadmap is not only technical. It is also regulatory and product driven: bring issuance, trading, and settlement on-chain in a compliant way.
There are also public announcements from the Dusk Foundation about a Dusk Trade waitlist tied to NPEX and tokenized assets plans.
My simple take: the most important roadmap item is not another feature. It is proving the system can carry real regulated activity without breaking the user experience or the compliance story.
The hard parts: challenges Dusk still has to face
No matter how strong the design is, Dusk is building in one of the hardest areas in crypto. Here are the challenges, in plain English.
1. Privacy is expensive to build and easy to misunderstand
Zero knowledge tech can confuse people. Users might think privacy means illegal. Institutions might fear privacy means no audit. Dusk’s message is selective disclosure and auditability, but the world still needs time to trust it.
2. Developer experience has to feel normal
DuskEVM helps a lot because it targets familiar EVM tooling. But the real test is whether builders can ship apps quickly, debug smoothly, and integrate wallets and explorers without pain.
3. Liquidity and network effects are not automatic
A chain can be correct and still be lonely. Real adoption needs:
apps people want
markets that move
partners that keep building during quiet months
Dusk is targeting serious finance, which can be slower than retail hype. That is both a strength and a risk.
4. Regulation can change the rules mid game
Dusk is leaning into regulation, which is brave. But it also means it is exposed to shifting legal frameworks and country by country differences. The NPEX license approach is meant to reduce that risk, but it cannot eliminate it.
5. Competition is real
Many networks are chasing RWA and compliant finance. Dusk’s differentiator is doing privacy plus compliance at the protocol level, not as an afterthought. But the market will judge them on delivered products, not promises.
The emotional reason people care about this kind of chain
If you strip away buzzwords, Dusk is built around one human truth:
People want the benefits of open networks, but they do not want to live inside a glass box.
They want instant settlement, programmable assets, and global access, but they still want privacy for customers, safety for businesses, and rules that keep markets fair. Dusk is built to make that possible on one chain, without forcing you to pick between being fully exposed or fully hidden.

Абсолютно — вот то же самое содержание, переписанное с полностью естественным, человеческим тоном и аккуратно отформатированное в параграфы, без заголовков, без списков, без маркеров, без структурных перерывов. Просто плавное, органичное длинное объяснение, которое читается как история.
Plasma XPL – Цепочка, которая хочет стать домом для цифровых долларов
Большинство людей входят в крипту по простым причинам. Они хотят отправлять деньги, хранить деньги или получать оплату. Для многих из них эти "деньги" больше не являются государственными банкнотами или банковским балансом, а чем-то вроде USDT. Стейблкоины тихо стали настоящей валютой крипты. Люди используют их для оплаты фрилансеров, поддержки семей за границей, перемещения средств между платформами и защиты от инфляции местной валюты. Однако, странным образом, блокчейны, которые несут эти стейблкоины, никогда не были действительно спроектированы для них. Они были созданы для всего сразу: игр, NFT, DeFi-экспериментов, токенов управления, мемов, спекуляций и платежей. Стейблкоины стали важными случайно.

Ванар — это блокчейн первого уровня, созданный для реального использования, а не только для торговли криптовалютой. Команда, стоящая за ним, имеет опыт в области игр, развлечений и работы с брендами, поэтому они думают в первую очередь о обычных пользователях. Их цель проста: сделать Web3 естественным для следующих миллиардов людей, так же как игры и приложения кажутся естественными сегодня. На базовом уровне Ванар — это блокчейн, совместимый с EVM. Это важно, потому что это позволяет разработчикам использовать знакомые инструменты и смарт-контракты в стиле Ethereum, вместо того чтобы учить совершенно новую систему. Идея состоит в том, чтобы продолжать строить что-то простое для создателей, обеспечивая при этом быстрые транзакции и низкие, предсказуемые комиссии для пользователей. Ванар важен, потому что сегодня много собственности в Web3 является хрупкой. Многие «он-цепные» активы все еще зависят от внецепных ссылок, серверов или шлюзов. Когда эти ссылки ломаются, актив все еще может существовать на блокчейне, но настоящий контент становится недоступным. Для массового принятия это проблема доверия. Если цифровая собственность собирается восприниматься всерьез, она должна быть долговечной и оставаться удобной для использования. Здесь появляется более широкое видение Ванара. Ванар продвигает идею о том, что блокчейны не должны только хранить числа и журналы транзакций, но также поддерживать более богатые данные таким образом, чтобы они оставались полезными со временем. Они описывают это как создание цепи, предназначенной для приложений эпохи ИИ, где данные структурированы так, чтобы приложения и автоматизированные агенты могли их читать, понимать и действовать на их основе безопасно. В человеческих терминах Ванар хочет, чтобы цепь ощущалась как надежная инфраструктура. Вы должны иметь возможность создать игру, опыт мета-вселенной, рекламную кампанию или систему цифровых активов, не беспокоясь о том, что все станет медленным, дорогим или сломается через год. Долгосрочная цель — не просто «быстрая цепь», а основа, на которой могут существовать реальные продукты. ВАНРИ — это токен, который обеспечивает работу сети. Он используется для оплаты транзакционных сборов, для обеспечения безопасности цепи через стекинг и для вознаграждения валидаторов, которые помогают поддерживать работу сети. Как и большинство токенов первого уровня, его здоровье зависит от реального спроса. Если цепь получает ежедневных пользователей, реальные приложения и постоянную активность, токен становится настоящей утилитой. Если использование низкое, и внимание только спекулятивное, токен может испытывать проблемы под давлением продаж. Сторона экосистемы — это то место, где Ванар пытается выглядеть менее как теория и больше как реальная платформа. Из-за своих корней в играх и развлечениях проект ориентируется на продукты и опыты, которые могут привлечь обычных людей. Это включает работу, связанную с опытами в стиле мета-вселенной и игровыми сетями, где собственность, идентичность и экономики внутри приложений могут быть связаны с цепью, не заставляя пользователей думать о блокчейне каждую секунду. Дорожная карта Ванара, простыми словами, касается подъема по слоям. Сначала она укрепляет базовую цепь и поддерживает низкие сборы и стабильную производительность. Затем она расширяет способы обработки данных, чтобы цифровой контент и информация могли существовать в более постоянной, удобной форме. После этого она усиливает внимание к инструментам и автоматизации на основе ИИ, чтобы агенты и приложения могли использовать цепь как память и правила, а не только как книгу учёта. Впереди реальные вызовы. Конкуренция интенсивная, потому что многие цепи заявляют о скорости, акценте на играх или брендинге ИИ. Ванар должен доказать свою отличительность через принятие, а не только через объявления. История ИИ также должна стать реальными инструментами для разработчиков, которые люди фактически используют, в противном случае это будет восприниматься как маркетинговый шум. Децентрализация — еще одна точка давления. Любая цепь, которая начинает с более управляемой настройки валидаторов для стабильности, столкнется с вопросами о контроле и долгосрочной справедливости. Ванар должен показать явный прогресс в направлении более сильной децентрализации, потому что доверие — это большая часть того, почему блокчейн вообще существует. Исполнение — это окончательное испытание. Создание цепи — это сложно. Создать цепь, плюс экосистему, плюс ориентированные на ИИ слои и реальные потребительские приложения еще сложнее. Если Ванар будет стабильно поставлять и привлекать создателей, которые создают продукты, которыми люди наслаждаются, у него будет реальный путь. Если доставка замедлится или рост пользователей останется небольшим, видение может угаснуть независимо от того, насколько оно хорошо звучит. В конце концов, Ванар пытается стать тем видом блокчейна, который люди используют, не задумываясь об этом. Место, где игры работают плавно, цифровая собственность не ломается, данные остаются полезными, и будущие приложения на основе ИИ могут работать с реальными правилами и надежной памятью. Это человеческое обещание, стоящее за технологией.

Plasma is easiest to understand if you imagine it not as “another L1,” but as a money rail. At its core, Plasma is a Layer 1 blockchain built specifically for stablecoin settlement, especially USDT. It keeps all the power of Ethereum’s smart contracts through full EVM compatibility using Reth, but it changes the experience so that stablecoins feel like real, everyday money, not like awkward tokens trapped behind gas fees. The chain uses its own consensus engine, PlasmaBFT, to reach finality in under a second, and it regularly anchors its state into Bitcoin to borrow Bitcoin’s neutrality and censorship resistance. In simple words, it is a fast chain for stablecoins, that speaks Ethereum’s language, and leans on Bitcoin for extra safety.
The reason Plasma matters is tied to how stablecoins are actually used today. Stablecoins like USDT are no longer just tools for crypto traders. They are used by people sending money home, by freelancers getting paid in dollars, by shops that accept crypto, and by platforms that want a simple way to move value across borders. But most of these flows still sit on chains that were not built for them. On Ethereum, users fight with gas spikes and failed transactions. On other chains, they still need a separate gas token even if they only care about USDT. That leads to a very human frustration: “I have money in my wallet, but I can’t move it until I buy another token.” Plasma exists to remove that feeling. It makes stablecoin payments the main focus, not just another use case, trying to make sending digital dollars feel closer to sending a message than to running a DeFi transaction.
Under the hood, Plasma’s architecture is built around performance and familiarity. On the execution side, it uses a Reth-based EVM, which means Solidity contracts and Ethereum tooling can run with almost no changes. Developers can bring over their dApps, wallets, or DeFi protocols and expect them to behave as they do on Ethereum. On the consensus side, Plasma relies on PlasmaBFT, a fast Byzantine Fault Tolerant protocol inspired by Fast HotStuff, written in Rust and tuned for high throughput and low latency. Validators stake the native token XPL, propose blocks, and vote; once enough votes are collected, a block becomes final very quickly. This combination allows the chain to handle thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality, which is exactly what high-volume payments and micro-transactions need.
Plasma’s design becomes more interesting when you look at how it treats gas. The network is stablecoin-first, not token-first. For simple USDT transfers, Plasma offers gasless transactions at the protocol level. You can hold only USDT, sign a transaction to send it, and the network sponsors the gas in XPL behind the scenes through a paymaster system. You do not need to top up XPL just to move your funds. For more complex operations, like interacting with smart contracts, Plasma introduces the idea of stablecoin-first gas: fees can be paid in whitelisted tokens such as USDT or, in time, BTC-backed assets like pBTC. The paymaster converts those assets into the resources validators expect. For everyday users and merchants, this removes a big mental barrier; they can live almost entirely in stablecoins and still use the network fully.
Bitcoin anchoring is another important part of the story. Plasma regularly commits cryptographic summaries of its state to the Bitcoin blockchain. That anchoring makes it harder to quietly rewrite history and aligns the chain with Bitcoin’s culture of neutrality. On top of that, the roadmap includes a trust-minimized Bitcoin bridge that mints pBTC on Plasma against BTC locked on the Bitcoin side. A verifier network and multi-party signing replace a single custodian model, so users can bring Bitcoin liquidity into Plasma without trusting one central entity. Over time, this means Plasma will not just be a home for stablecoins but also a place where Bitcoin can be used natively in smart contracts, DeFi, and even as a fee asset. This triangle of USDT, BTC, and EVM logic is what gives the chain its own flavor.
Tokenomics sit underneath all of this. The native token XPL powers staking, security and, when needed, fees and governance. At genesis, the total supply is set at 10 billion XPL, with an initial circulating share around 18 percent when it first listed on exchanges. Distribution is fairly simple to remember: 10 percent to the public sale, 40 percent for ecosystem and growth, 25 percent to the team, and 25 percent to investors, with multi-year vesting and cliffs to avoid sudden heavy unlocks. Team and investor tokens unlock over three years with a one-year cliff, while the large ecosystem allocation unlocks gradually to fund grants, liquidity and partnerships. This setup is meant to keep long-term contributors aligned while leaving enough room to reward builders and users.
XPL’s utility shows up in several ways. Validators must stake XPL to participate in PlasmaBFT, and delegators can stake through them to share in rewards, which binds network security to economic skin in the game. Even though gasless USDT transfers and stablecoin-first gas hide XPL from many users, XPL is still central behind the scenes: block rewards and a share of fees are paid in it, and penalties for misbehavior are applied to it. Over time, governance will likely give XPL holders a voice in how parameters like inflation, gas policies, and bridge configurations are tuned. On top of that, XPL is used to seed liquidity, fund ecosystem incentives, and support integrations with wallets, exchanges, and protocols. Inflation for staking rewards starts at a modest rate and is designed to fall over time, while part of the fee flow can be burned, tying long-term scarcity to real usage.
The ecosystem around Plasma is growing in a way that matches its focus. Tooling providers and node hosts now treat Plasma as another first-class EVM chain, so developers can use familiar stacks like MetaMask, Hardhat, Foundry, and public RPCs without extra friction. Payment-oriented protocols and DeFi projects are beginning to deploy there, attracted by the chance to build products where gas is not a constant support headache for users. For end users, listing of XPL and Plasma-native stablecoins on big exchanges, plus bridge integrations, makes it easier to move liquidity in and out. Recent integrations with cross-chain intents and swap systems plug Plasma into a broader multi-chain liquidity graph, so that someone can swap into USDT on Plasma even if they started on another chain entirely. All of this is aimed at something fairly humble: you open a wallet, pick a contact, and send them a stablecoin, without caring which chain is underneath.
The roadmap pushes the design further. In 2026, staking and delegated staking are scheduled to go live for a broader set of holders, turning Plasma’s proof-of-stake into a more decentralized system where regular users can help secure the network and earn yield. Around the same period, the pBTC bridge is expected to activate, bringing native Bitcoin into the Plasma ecosystem in a trust-minimized way, and letting BTC flow into lending markets, yield strategies, and cross-chain swaps. At the same time, confidential transaction features are planned to roll out, aimed at institutions and businesses that need privacy for salaries, invoices, and B2B payments, but still want the option to reveal data to auditors or regulators. Alongside these, ecosystem and growth allocations will keep unlocking monthly over several years, funding campaigns, grants, and liquidity programs intended to turn Plasma from a promising chain into everyday infrastructure.
Of course, there are challenges, and it helps to talk about them in a straightforward way. The first is competition. Ethereum and its rollups still dominate DeFi; Tron and other chains hold a big share of USDT flows; and many new “payment-friendly” L1s and L2s appear every cycle. Plasma has to prove that gasless USDT transfers, stablecoin-first gas, and Bitcoin anchoring are not just nice features, but reasons to actually move real volume there and stay. The second challenge is regulation. Stablecoins live under a moving legal target, with new rules in the US, Europe, and other regions shaping how they can be issued and integrated with banks. Because Plasma is built so tightly around stablecoins, changes in regulation will touch it more directly than they might touch a generic smart-contract platform.
There are also economic and technical risks. Plasma’s gasless model has to be carefully limited and funded so it cannot be abused by spam, while still feeling magical to real users. The balance between inflation, staking rewards, and fee burning has to keep validators motivated without leaving holders feeling diluted. The planned Bitcoin bridge must be engineered with extreme caution; crypto history is full of bridge hacks, and trust-minimized systems using verifier networks and multi-party signing are powerful but complex. If any of these pieces fail, Plasma’s reputation as a serious settlement layer could be damaged. For now, the team is focusing on code refactors, peer discovery improvements, and core stability, which are not flashy, but they matter if the chain wants to carry global money flows without drama.
Seen in a human way, Plasma is trying to solve a very simple problem: you should not feel stupid when you send money. You should not be blocked because you forgot to hold a small balance of some gas token you never think about. You should not worry that your transaction might fail when the network gets busy. The chain’s design choices all point back to that feeling. It combines EVM familiarity so developers know what they’re doing, Stablecoin-first UX so users do not have to think about infrastructure, and Bitcoin anchoring so institutions can trust the base layer. If Plasma succeeds, most people using it may never say “I use Plasma” at all; they will just say, “I send dollars online, and it works.”

#plasma @Plasma $XPL

Dusk started in 2018 with a different kind of goal. It was not built to chase hype or trends. It was built for a world where finance has rules, privacy laws, audits, and real consequences. Dusk is a layer 1 blockchain designed for regulated financial infrastructure, where privacy is not an optional feature. It is part of the foundation.
Most blockchains feel like a glass house. Everything is visible. That works for open verification, but it can become a problem when real institutions get involved. Companies do not want competitors tracking treasury moves. Funds do not want the market watching every position. Banks cannot expose client activity publicly. At the same time, regulators and auditors still need proof that markets are fair and rules are followed. Dusk matters because it is trying to balance these two needs: privacy for people and businesses, and accountability for the system.
At its core, Dusk is a public network that aims to support things like tokenized real world assets, compliant DeFi, and institutional-grade financial applications. The idea is simple even if the technology is advanced. You should be able to issue, trade, and settle regulated assets on-chain, without turning sensitive information into public data. Dusk tries to make blockchain feel realistic for finance, not just exciting for crypto.
Dusk works by focusing on two big jobs that every serious blockchain must handle well. First, the network must agree on what is true. It must decide which transactions are valid and what the current state is. Dusk uses a Proof-of-Stake style consensus designed to support strong finality, meaning when a transaction is confirmed, it is meant to be truly settled. In finance, that finality is a big deal because settlement needs to be dependable, not “maybe it changes later.”
Second, Dusk is designed to protect sensitive information while still proving that everything is correct. This is where zero-knowledge proofs come in. Zero-knowledge proof systems allow a person or a contract to prove something is valid without revealing the private details behind it. In simple words, Dusk is built so that a transaction can be verified as legitimate, but the public does not need to see every balance, every identity detail, or every business relationship.
This is also why people describe Dusk as privacy with auditability. The goal is not to hide everything forever. The goal is to keep normal activity private by default while still allowing controlled verification when it is legally required. That kind of selective visibility is closer to how real finance already works, and it is why Dusk attracts attention in the regulated assets world.
The DUSK token is the fuel and the security layer of the network. It is used for staking, which helps secure the chain and rewards people who support the network. It is used for transaction fees, because every blockchain needs a way to pay for computation and network use. It also acts as an incentive tool, aligning validators, builders, and users so the network can stay secure and active over time.
Tokenomics is not only about numbers, it is about behavior. A chain that wants to support institutional finance needs long-term stability, predictable incentives, and security that can hold up under pressure. Dusk positions its token to serve those needs, so the network can be protected and sustained as adoption grows.
Dusk’s ecosystem naturally revolves around regulated use cases. Instead of focusing on random apps, its core direction points toward asset issuance, tokenized securities, real world assets, compliance tooling, private settlement, and payment rails. The ecosystem is meant to feel more like financial infrastructure than entertainment. If Dusk succeeds, many of the most important products built on it may not look flashy. They will look reliable, because that is what finance values.
When it comes to roadmap, projects like Dusk usually move in stages. First they build the base network and make sure it is stable and secure. Then they improve developer tooling and performance so builders can create real applications. After that, the focus shifts to adoption: onboarding issuers, regulated venues, liquidity providers, and institutions that need privacy and compliance from day one. A big part of the roadmap is also trust-building through upgrades, audits, documentation, and partnerships that take time.
Dusk still faces serious challenges. Regulation is complex and it changes across countries and regions. Privacy technology is powerful but difficult, and complex systems require careful engineering and strong audits. Institutional adoption is slow by nature because legal reviews and compliance checks take time. Competition is also strong, because many networks want to become the home of real world assets. Dusk must prove that its approach, public but privacy-first and compliance-ready, is better than both fully transparent chains and closed permissioned ledgers.
The honest truth is that Dusk is aiming at one of the hardest targets in crypto. But if it works, the reward is big. Dusk could become the kind of chain that people rely on quietly, not because it is loud, but because it fits the real world. It is building a place where regulated assets can move on-chain with privacy, with rules, and with cryptographic trust that does not depend on a single company’s database.

#Dusk @Dusk $DUSK

Walrus — это один из тех проектов, который становится более понятным, чем дольше вы на него смотрите. На первый взгляд, это может звучать как просто еще один крипто-токен с модной историей. Но на самом деле Walrus касается чего-то, что весь мир Web3 продолжает избегать: где находятся реальные данные. Не балансы или транзакции, а тяжелые вещи. Изображения, видео, игровые активы, документы, наборы данных, файлы ИИ и всё, что слишком велико и дорого, чтобы хранить прямо в блокчейне.
Большинство приложений, которые называют себя децентрализованными, все еще зависят от централизованного хранения в фоновом режиме. Умный контракт может находиться в блокчейне, но веб-сайт размещен на обычном сервере, изображения загружаются из облачного хранилища, а важные файлы находятся под контролем одной компании. Если эта компания закроется, изменит правила, заблокирует регион или проект перестанет оплачивать счета, приложение может перестать работать, даже если блокчейн все еще функционирует. Walrus существует, чтобы устранить эту слабую точку и сделать хранение данных более похожим на общее общественное благо, а не на частную арендованную комнату.