#dusk I have been watching this pure Rust PLONK implementation from the Dusk team for a bit. It’s built over BLS12-381 with KZG10 as the polynomial commitment scheme. Not a wrapper or a fork they built it from scratch. The codebase has 638 stars on GitHub, 163 forks. Not bad.
But here’s what’s interesting. The dusk-plonk crate version 0.23.0 is now marked as deprecated on deps.dev. Not sure what’s going on there. Maybe they are rolling it into something bigger, maybe standard version churn. The OpenSSF scorecard shows only 6 commits in the last 90 days. Feels quiet lately.
Porter Adams audited Piecrust VM and the PLONK system last year only two low-severity findings for PLONK. He called the documentation and inline comments some of the best he ever seen. That’s not nothing. Most audit reports are a laundry list of problems.
But then OtterSec found a critical soundness vulnerability in April 2026 the verifier never validated four of the prover's polynomial commitments. Enough to mint arbitrary DUSK. That’s serious. They patched it, but still.
Mainnet went live January 2026 with DuskEVM for Solidity devs. NPEX partnership tokenizing €300M+ regulated securities. Sounds big on paper. But I dug into the ecosystem only 4 contracts listed across different networks, most still on testnet. A Layer 1 that's been live for 8 months with 4 projects. Something is building maybe, but right now? It's empty. Privacy tech protecting nothing.
@Dusk_Foundation $DUSK
But here’s what’s interesting. The dusk-plonk crate version 0.23.0 is now marked as deprecated on deps.dev. Not sure what’s going on there. Maybe they are rolling it into something bigger, maybe standard version churn. The OpenSSF scorecard shows only 6 commits in the last 90 days. Feels quiet lately.
Porter Adams audited Piecrust VM and the PLONK system last year only two low-severity findings for PLONK. He called the documentation and inline comments some of the best he ever seen. That’s not nothing. Most audit reports are a laundry list of problems.
But then OtterSec found a critical soundness vulnerability in April 2026 the verifier never validated four of the prover's polynomial commitments. Enough to mint arbitrary DUSK. That’s serious. They patched it, but still.
Mainnet went live January 2026 with DuskEVM for Solidity devs. NPEX partnership tokenizing €300M+ regulated securities. Sounds big on paper. But I dug into the ecosystem only 4 contracts listed across different networks, most still on testnet. A Layer 1 that's been live for 8 months with 4 projects. Something is building maybe, but right now? It's empty. Privacy tech protecting nothing.
@Dusk_Foundation $DUSK