Dusk opens the door for the tokenization of patents and copyrights, this really changes the game. You can officially prove that the idea is yours, receive royalties, but at the same time not tell anyone how everything is arranged inside. Competitors — zero details. It creates a liquid market for ideas, where you can sell shares without losing control and without revealing secrets. This is especially great for startups. Because before, you either stay silent and sit without money, or tell everything to investors and risk someone just stealing it. And here is a third option, tokenized, showed proof on the blockchain, sold a piece — and your know-how is still only in your head. Seriously, for many this can become a salvation.@Dusk #dusk $DUSK
In our time, when everything is transitioning to digital, and information disappears faster than you can blink, a certain inequality arises that is not about gadgets or the internet. It goes much deeper, concerning who controls what remains for future generations. Which data, photos, or texts deserve eternity? This was discussed in the Canadian magazine The Walrus, about the "twilight of libraries" and how digital archives simply erase human experience. The doubt here is simple: those who have access to storage are the ones who write the history of the future, holding power over it. You know how it is: those who archive, rule.
Not transactions, but conscience, an unexpected side effect of Dusk Network.
Most blockchains either show everything to everyone (like Ethereum) or hide everything (Monero, Zcash, and similar). Dusk took a different path. They implemented selective privacy, meaning you decide what to show and what not to show. Through zero-knowledge proofs, you can prove that everything is fair without revealing amounts, names, or details. Sounds like a fairy tale? But this is their selling point for regulated finance.
The Energy We Don't See, WALRUS and the True Cost of 'Keeping Everything'
Just think about how it happens, you upload vacation photos, throw in a bunch of old documents, videos of your cat, backups, logs, some other files "just in case" and that's it, the cloud keeps everything, the interface is clean, beautiful, convenient. And now imagine that behind each such "save" is a huge, insatiable machine that devours electricity, water, metal, and emits CO₂ into the atmosphere. And we almost never think about this.
Why I No Longer Want Everyone to See My Wallet (and Why This Could Change Everything)
In Web3, everyone has always shouted about transparency. Like, it’s the main feature where everyone sees every transaction, every contract, every movement. And it really works because no one can just cheat; everything is out in the open. But what's interesting is that the more we dive into this, the more we understand that total transparency is not just a superpower, but also a huge hole in security.
The right to be forgotten seems to be slowly dying. And Walrus and similar things — this is no longer just another blockchain hype, it’s really the end of an era when something could be erased and you could start with a blank slate. Imagine: when you were young, you did silly things, posted a photo, wrote something hot out of emotions, and then life changed — work, family, a different city. And suddenly, after 12 years, someone just throws it all into a search and says: 'Oh, that's you.' And there will be no 'delete' anymore. Walrus is exactly about this — data that cannot be erased. Nodes scattered around the world, erasure coding, 66% can burn — and your photo/post/video will still be resurrected. 'Eternal digital memory,' as they beautifully say.
Confidentiality in Dusk is not about when no one controls anything at all. There are things like view keys, and in fact, you decide for yourself whom to give the key to so that a person or bank can view your transaction history. If you want to undergo a tax audit, you give the key to the auditor, and everything is fine. At the same time, in public blockchain explorers, no one will see your life as before. Personally, I like it. Because you can be a normal law-abiding guy, pay taxes as required, and still not expose your entire financial life to the whole internet. Private remains private, and the state receives what it is entitled to by law. Very convenient, in my opinion.@Dusk #dusk $DUSK
Museums around the world are gradually uploading their 3D scans of artifacts to Walrus. And this is really cool, because if a war, fire, or some other disaster occurs, we will have an exact digital copy left. Not just photos from different angles, but a real mathematical model of the object that can actually be printed or studied down to the millimeter. And the blockchain also confirms that this is not a forgery, but the very same original in digital form. Essentially, we are slowly building a kind of digital Noah's Ark. So that at least something from millennia of human beauty and genius does not disappear forever.@Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL
Silent trust is when everyone knows you are clean, but no one knows how much money you have
To be honest, in a classic blockchain everything is built on everyone seeing everything. Every balance, every transaction is like in a showcase. For Bitcoin from 2010 to 2013, this was cool, even revolutionary. But when serious money starts to flow in from funds, banks, family offices, bond issuers, this total transparency suddenly becomes a poison.
In blockchain, it has been common to think that the more visible it is, the safer it is. Plasma once disagreed with this. It came from a different idea that not everything should be on-chain all the time. This was frightening. There is no complete picture; it seems to me that you lose control. But perhaps security is not total transparency, but the ability to intervene at the right moment and not do unnecessary things.@Plasma #Plasma $XPL
Why Nike and Starbucks are getting into Web3, not even pretending to be decentralized
Let's start with the fact that Web3 was promised to all of us as a paradise without intermediaries, where everything is on smart contracts, decentralized, transparent, and 'trustless'. And now look: Nike, Starbucks, Adidas, a bunch of luxury brands, music labels — they all are jumping in together. At the same time, most of their projects are pure hybrid things. There is both blockchain and centralized server, KYC through passport, and a wallet that is essentially held by the company. And you know what? They are fine with it. Why?
Storing a sequenced genome is generally a cosmic volume of data. You keep everything in one center — and there's already a risk that someone might break in, substitute, or simply steal your biological secret. Walrus allows you to spread this data across a decentralized network. Without a main server, without a 'big brother'. Anonymously, if you wish. Your genome — only yours. And at the same time, whenever you want, you can give researchers permission to view the necessary piece. Without intermediaries, without references and queues. This is what the medicine of the future looks like, your own biological passport is in a safer place than in any government database. And the keys to it — are in your pocket.@Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL
Plasma and the same old illusion of security, why complex L2s make us simply not ask questions
By the way, when I first read about Plasma back in 2017, I thought: wow, now we will finally make Ethereum fast, cheap, and secure at the same time. Vitalik and Joseph Poon wrote this white paper, and everyone thought, here it is — the solution to all problems. Child chains, fraud proofs, Merkle trees, exits with challenge periods… sounds cool, right?
While everyone is focused on Web3 games and meme coins, Vanar Chain is quietly doing something entirely different and preparing the ground for Spatial Computing. Ultra-low latency, partnerships with tech giants — and now you can render heavy digital assets in real-time on AR/VR headsets. Just think about it: you buy NFT sneakers, and they just appear in your room with realistic physics, without any lag. Cool, right? This is no longer the crypto that just sits in your browser. This is when digital becomes a part of your space, has weight like real things. Vanar is building not just another L1, but essentially a visual layer of the new internet. Few talk about Vanar specifically in the context of the Spatial Web. And that's a shame — because it positions them not as just another Ethereum-like project, but as the foundation for glasses and helmets from Apple, Meta, and others.@Vanarchain #vanar $VANRY
Dusk invented a very interesting trick, Confidential Security Contract. It's a standard for tokens where all the rules of asset ownership can be specified directly in the smart contract, but no one can see how much anyone has in their wallet. Just think about it, the company sets a limit of no more than 100 shareholders, and the system itself does not allow new ones in if it's already full. Or it automatically distributes dividends, but the amount is only visible to the recipient and the tax authority (well, as it should be). No open lists, no leaks. I was really impressed with how they twisted this - complete automation of corporate stuff and at the same time a true commercial secret, without compromises. Very human for such a technical project.@Dusk #dusk $DUSK
For investigative journalists, protecting sources is not just a rule, but a matter of survival. Walrus has created a very simple yet powerful tool, which means you can upload the entire "evidence package" there, and it stays quiet until something happens to you. Disappeared, arrested, forced to remain silent, and everything automatically flies out into the network. And that's when no pressure works anymore. Because the information is no longer in your head or on a flash drive, but scattered all over the world, encrypted, duplicated, waiting for its time. Threatening a journalist becomes utterly pointless. It turns out that in situations where laws have long been ignored, technology suddenly becomes the main guardian of truth. And honestly, it's a bit creepy, but also very right. (≈398 characters)@Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL
Dusk has come up with a really cool thing, a standard for tokens called Confidential Security Contract. Essentially, you can specify all the rules in the smart contract about who can own these assets and how, while the balances and amounts remain completely hidden. For example, a company sets a limit so that there are no more than 100 shareholders, and that's it, the system automatically prevents any excess. It also automatically distributes dividends to all, but no one, except the recipient and the tax authority, can see how much each person received. I was genuinely impressed by how easily they pulled this off, fully automating business processes while maintaining the same commercial secrecy that cannot be hidden in a regular blockchain. It's done very humanely for serious money.@Dusk #dusk $DUSK
Most storage facilities just consume electricity and remain idle. However, Walrus is trying to fix this in a humane way; it takes old servers, outdated hardware that still has some life left, and excess energy that has nowhere to go. Instead of throwing disks in the trash, they are put to use, becoming part of a massive shared archive. This is genuinely eco-friendly. There's no need to constantly buy new, throw away old, and heat the planet. Your old, dusty 4 TB hard drive could suddenly become a small brick in the foundation of the eternal library of the internet. And that, you know, even sounds kind of nice.@Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL
The blockchain has grown up and gone to work, why DUSK makes me both happy and sad
Let's start with the fact that when I look at DUSK, I see not just another blockchain. I see how Web3 is finally coming out of its teenage years. Six years of development, launching in early 2026, and here it is no longer shouting 'down with banks!', but quietly suggesting, 'let's do everything humanely so that neither regulators get nervous nor institutions hesitate.'
Just think, sensors on an airplane or a huge container ship send data in real time. Everything is broken down into pieces and recorded in Walrus. And if something happens, an accident or a disaster, then this data can no longer be erased. You can't fake it or 'lose' it. It's already there forever, encrypted in the blockchain. This essentially forces everyone to be accountable. Because the truth no longer depends on how much someone paid lawyers or regulators. Big corporations have always loved 'optimized' transparency. And here it suddenly becomes real, and you can't buy it, bribe it, or smother it with paperwork. It seems to me that this is exactly what the industry has been lacking for a long time.@Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL