Been looking into Dusk again, and something clicked for me that I’d mostly overlooked before.
I always assumed the main thing to watch was the privacy tech. That’s the obvious part of the pitch.
But the more interesting change might be how $DUSK is breaking the system into different pieces.
DuskDS sits underneath as the settlement layer. DuskEVM gives developers the familiar Solidity route, while Hedger is there when an application actually needs confidential transactions.
None of that sounds particularly unusual on its own. Plenty of networks have added EVM compatibility, and “privacy for finance” has been around as an idea for years.
What I find more interesting is the shift from trying to make privacy the defining feature of the whole chain to making it something applications can use when they need it.
That feels closer to how financial markets actually work. Some information needs to be public. Some probably shouldn’t be. And different participants may need to see different things.
There’s also NPEX in the background, which reports €217M+ financed, 100+ successful financings and more than 20,000 investors.
But I’d be careful with those numbers. They show there’s an existing financial network around the idea, not that this activity has moved on-chain.
That’s probably the part worth watching now.
How many securities actually get issued or settled through Dusk, and how much of that activity ends up using the privacy layer?
If anyone’s been digging into those numbers, I’d be curious what you’ve found.
@Dusk_Foundation #dusk
I always assumed the main thing to watch was the privacy tech. That’s the obvious part of the pitch.
But the more interesting change might be how $DUSK is breaking the system into different pieces.
DuskDS sits underneath as the settlement layer. DuskEVM gives developers the familiar Solidity route, while Hedger is there when an application actually needs confidential transactions.
None of that sounds particularly unusual on its own. Plenty of networks have added EVM compatibility, and “privacy for finance” has been around as an idea for years.
What I find more interesting is the shift from trying to make privacy the defining feature of the whole chain to making it something applications can use when they need it.
That feels closer to how financial markets actually work. Some information needs to be public. Some probably shouldn’t be. And different participants may need to see different things.
There’s also NPEX in the background, which reports €217M+ financed, 100+ successful financings and more than 20,000 investors.
But I’d be careful with those numbers. They show there’s an existing financial network around the idea, not that this activity has moved on-chain.
That’s probably the part worth watching now.
How many securities actually get issued or settled through Dusk, and how much of that activity ends up using the privacy layer?
If anyone’s been digging into those numbers, I’d be curious what you’ve found.
@Dusk_Foundation #dusk