#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
The true endgame for RWA probably isn’t “putting assets on-chain,” but rather “native assets living on-chain.”
When I recently watched @dusk, I noticed a pretty interesting difference.
Most RWA we see today is essentially tokenizing assets that already exist off-chain.
That’s valuable, but it mostly answers the question of “how to move assets onto the chain.”
And what Dusk is discussing goes one step further:
What if, from the very beginning of asset issuance, we design the entire lifecycle to live on-chain?
That would mean issuance, holding, trading, settlement—and even subsequent financial applications—can all revolve around the same on-chain infrastructure.
That’s also why I’m particularly optimistic about the direction Dusk is taking.
Dusk not only does tokenization, but is also pushing native issuance—so that regulated securities can run natively on-chain, as long as institutional permissions and product requirements are satisfied.
Together with the upcoming DuskEVM, institutions and developers can build applications in a familiar EVM/Solidity environment, while also leveraging the privacy capabilities provided by Hedger.
This combination is actually pretty crucial:
EVM lowers the barrier to entry, privacy solves the problem of financial data, and compliance infrastructure connects to the real world.
So I think when judging whether an RWA project has imagination, you shouldn’t only look at how much money it has “on-chain.”
You should also look at whether it has the ability to redo the issuance, trading, and settlement of real financial markets from scratch.
If in the future RWA evolves from “tokenizing off-chain assets” to “native on-chain financial assets,” then infrastructure-type projects like Dusk are exactly the ones worth watching continuously.
The true endgame for RWA probably isn’t “putting assets on-chain,” but rather “native assets living on-chain.”
When I recently watched @dusk, I noticed a pretty interesting difference.
Most RWA we see today is essentially tokenizing assets that already exist off-chain.
That’s valuable, but it mostly answers the question of “how to move assets onto the chain.”
And what Dusk is discussing goes one step further:
What if, from the very beginning of asset issuance, we design the entire lifecycle to live on-chain?
That would mean issuance, holding, trading, settlement—and even subsequent financial applications—can all revolve around the same on-chain infrastructure.
That’s also why I’m particularly optimistic about the direction Dusk is taking.
Dusk not only does tokenization, but is also pushing native issuance—so that regulated securities can run natively on-chain, as long as institutional permissions and product requirements are satisfied.
Together with the upcoming DuskEVM, institutions and developers can build applications in a familiar EVM/Solidity environment, while also leveraging the privacy capabilities provided by Hedger.
This combination is actually pretty crucial:
EVM lowers the barrier to entry, privacy solves the problem of financial data, and compliance infrastructure connects to the real world.
So I think when judging whether an RWA project has imagination, you shouldn’t only look at how much money it has “on-chain.”
You should also look at whether it has the ability to redo the issuance, trading, and settlement of real financial markets from scratch.
If in the future RWA evolves from “tokenizing off-chain assets” to “native on-chain financial assets,” then infrastructure-type projects like Dusk are exactly the ones worth watching continuously.