#dusk $DUSK @Dusk

I was loking into Dusk’s older history today and one thing caught my attention: COSIMO X backed Dusk way back in May 2021, when the network was still in testnet. That’s kinda interesting because the thesis wasn’t about hype. it was about privacy for financial markets.

At that tme, Dusk was building a Proof-of-Stake blockchain focused on regulated finance, confidential smart contracts, security tokens and a bridge between TradFi and DeFi. It had also created a $5M grant pool for community testing before mainnet.

I like looking at investments like this because it shows what people were betting on before the story became obvious.

Fast forward to today, Dusk is positioning itself as infrastructure for regulated assets, with €300M+ in confirmed issuance, 210M+ DUSK staked and ~10-second deterministic finality according to its current metrics.

So when I see that 2021 COSIMO X investment, I dn’t just see an old funding event.

I see an early bet on the idea that privacy + compliance + on-chain finance could eventualy become a real market.

was COSIMO X early to the Dusk thesis, or is the bigger part of that thesis still ahead?

What do you think? 👀