What caught me was the gap between "onchain finance" as a headline and what actually gets built first. Going through a CreatorPad task on Dusk ($DUSK , #DUSK, @DuskFoundation), the framing is all institutional — regulated securities, compliant settlement, TradFi migrating over. But the tooling I could actually touch skewed the other direction: standard wallet flows, generic contract templates, nothing that assumes a compliance officer is the end user. The regulatory-grade pieces — licensed issuance, permissioned asset rails — get described in roadmap language, future tense, partnerships pending. Meanwhile the parts that work today are the parts any retail-facing chain already has. So the "future of finance" framing is aimed at an audience that isn't the one currently using the product. Not necessarily a problem, every infra project front-loads its story before the users match it, but it does mean the distance between who Dusk talks to and who Dusk currently serves is wider than a single glance suggests. Wondering how long that gap is supposed to hold.
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