I’ve lost more money to bad execution than to being completely wrong on a trade.
You find what looks like the best price, hit buy, then the fill comes back worse. Slippage, MEV, someone seeing the order before you, fragmented liquidity across chains… it all adds up. And bridging just to reach deeper liquidity adds another layer of risk and delay.
That’s why the Dusk idea actually interests me. If financial trading is going onchain, I don’t really see the point of making every order and position public by default. Sometimes privacy isn’t about hiding something shady. It’s just not wanting every bot to know what you’re about to do.
Dusk is trying to build that into the chain itself with confidential smart contracts and the XSC standard.
But I’m not blindly bullish. Privacy alone doesn’t fix thin liquidity or bad routing. If the fills aren’t better and execution isn’t reliable, traders won’t care how elegant the privacy tech is.
That’s the part I’m watching. Can confidential execution actually mean better real-world trading, not just a nicer narrative?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
You find what looks like the best price, hit buy, then the fill comes back worse. Slippage, MEV, someone seeing the order before you, fragmented liquidity across chains… it all adds up. And bridging just to reach deeper liquidity adds another layer of risk and delay.
That’s why the Dusk idea actually interests me. If financial trading is going onchain, I don’t really see the point of making every order and position public by default. Sometimes privacy isn’t about hiding something shady. It’s just not wanting every bot to know what you’re about to do.
Dusk is trying to build that into the chain itself with confidential smart contracts and the XSC standard.
But I’m not blindly bullish. Privacy alone doesn’t fix thin liquidity or bad routing. If the fills aren’t better and execution isn’t reliable, traders won’t care how elegant the privacy tech is.
That’s the part I’m watching. Can confidential execution actually mean better real-world trading, not just a nicer narrative?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
