Why will this year be a turning point for Dusk?

This project has been focusing on privacy-compliant Layer 1 since 2018, employing a modular architecture combined with cryptographic techniques. The key difference lies here — it’s not purely anonymous and unregulatable, nor fully transparent with no privacy, but rather achieves a balance of controllable privacy and auditability. This is exactly what institutional finance needs most.

Two major events happened simultaneously at the beginning of this year. First, the DuskEVM mainnet officially launched, embedding compliant privacy capabilities directly into standard Solidity contracts through the Hedger protocol. This means institutions can directly migrate existing DeFi and RWA applications with zero barriers to entry. Second, DuskTrade partnered with the Dutch licensed exchange NPEX, which immediately listed €300 million worth of tokenized securities for on-chain trading by qualified investors.

These two moves truly changed the narrative — from a purely technical validation stage to a stage where real institutional needs are being met. $DUSK, as a vehicle for governance, staking, and transaction fees, is directly tied to network usage. As the mainnet traffic increases, the token’s value logic becomes clear. Developer and institutional enthusiasm is now on the rise, and this window of opportunity is real.

Currently, global regulatory frameworks are gradually becoming clearer. Betting on Dusk at this point essentially means betting that institutional-grade blockchain can become mainstream.