The progress Dusk has made in the past half year is impressive—there really is a lot going on. The team is finishing the last integration for DuskEVM, Dusk Trade is in progress, a new wallet and Dusk Connect have released a developer preview, they even open-sourced a tool to detect code drift, and then there’s OpenDusk for community governance. It’s a full page of updates.
But after reading for a while, the more I look, the more something feels off.
This is a project that started back in 2018; the mainnet went live as early as January 2025—now it’s been a year and a half. For a project that’s eight years in the making, you’d expect that at this stage it would be wrapping things up, polishing one or two things until they work in real usage. But @Dusk is still laying out its plan, while multiple tracks—L1, EVM, trading, wallets, identity, governance—are all running at the same time. Each one is still in progress, and none is in a truly usable state.
The more products they spread out, the wider the coverage: on-chain, there are only a couple hundred transactions per day, and only one or so production application can be verified. Put these two together, and it doesn’t mean the team isn’t working—on the contrary, they’re very busy. The problem is what they’re busy doing: constantly starting new things, rather than letting what already exists actually get used.
What early-stage projects fear most is exactly this. It’s not that there hasn’t been progress; it’s that all the progress is on the supply side—always building tools, building features, building infrastructure—while the demand side never really connects. Whether you build ten things nobody uses, or build one thing nobody uses, it’s essentially the same. The difference is that the former burns more time and effort. #dusk
DuskEVM is almost ready—it could be a turning point. If it’s compatible with EVM, at least it can lower the barrier and let more outside developers come in. But what I’d rather see isn’t what it’s adding next. Among everything it’s already released, which one can be the first to produce real users and real transactions? Eight years in, $DUSK isn’t missing new functionality—it’s missing the fact that someone is actually using one of these
How do you think the Dusk products have been doing?
But after reading for a while, the more I look, the more something feels off.
This is a project that started back in 2018; the mainnet went live as early as January 2025—now it’s been a year and a half. For a project that’s eight years in the making, you’d expect that at this stage it would be wrapping things up, polishing one or two things until they work in real usage. But @Dusk is still laying out its plan, while multiple tracks—L1, EVM, trading, wallets, identity, governance—are all running at the same time. Each one is still in progress, and none is in a truly usable state.
The more products they spread out, the wider the coverage: on-chain, there are only a couple hundred transactions per day, and only one or so production application can be verified. Put these two together, and it doesn’t mean the team isn’t working—on the contrary, they’re very busy. The problem is what they’re busy doing: constantly starting new things, rather than letting what already exists actually get used.
What early-stage projects fear most is exactly this. It’s not that there hasn’t been progress; it’s that all the progress is on the supply side—always building tools, building features, building infrastructure—while the demand side never really connects. Whether you build ten things nobody uses, or build one thing nobody uses, it’s essentially the same. The difference is that the former burns more time and effort. #dusk
DuskEVM is almost ready—it could be a turning point. If it’s compatible with EVM, at least it can lower the barrier and let more outside developers come in. But what I’d rather see isn’t what it’s adding next. Among everything it’s already released, which one can be the first to produce real users and real transactions? Eight years in, $DUSK isn’t missing new functionality—it’s missing the fact that someone is actually using one of these
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