#dusk @Dusk This morning I caught myself staring at DUSK charts before the rest of the market had really woken up. I’m still holding a small test position, but I’ve been questioning what actually drives demand after mainnet.

The part I find interesting is the token’s role as fuel for private smart contracts in Piecrust. If institutions use DUSK for ZK proofs around tokenized assets or KYC, that creates usage-linked demand instead of purely speculative demand.

But there’s a catch I think gets overlooked: timing.

The burn mechanism only matters if institutional transactions arrive fast enough. If adoption takes months because banks and funds move slowly, staking emissions can hit the market long before meaningful network usage absorbs them.

So I’m less interested in whether DUSK has a good token model on paper. I’m watching whether real transaction activity actually starts catching up.

That’s the trade-off I’m watching now: utility vs. adoption speed. $DUSK
Which factor matters most for DUSK?