When I look at Dusk’s ~10-second finality, the interesting part isn’t speed for its own sake.
For securities, the real question is what happens after a trade.
I tested the idea with a small 30D $DUSK position:
30D trade $DUSK500.3 USDT
A buyer gets an asset. A seller expects payment. Custody, settlement, reporting and compliance workflows start depending on the transaction actually being final.
Waiting 10 seconds for deterministic settlement is very different from waiting through probabilistic confirmation and then building extra logic around the possibility of a reorg.
That sounds like a small infrastructure detail until you think about a market handling hundreds or thousands of transactions.
A meme can survive a few extra blocks.
A securities workflow has more dependencies. If settlement is uncertain, the uncertainty can leak into reconciliation, collateral availability and when the next transaction can safely happen.
This is where Dusk’s timing starts to make more sense to me.
Not because “10 seconds” looks impressive on a benchmark.
Because a predictable settlement point gives financial systems something they can actually schedule around.
The mild frustration is that faster finality alone doesn’t create a functioning securities market. The asset still needs liquidity, counterparties and real demand.
But if those pieces arrive, having to wait around for settlement certainty could become one of those infrastructure problems nobody wants to think about anymore...

What matters more for onchain securities?

@Dusk #dusk $DUSK $DEXE