#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
Recently I came across $DUSK , and one point that I find particularly interesting is:
It doesn’t seem in a hurry to prove whether “blockchain can be used for finance.” Instead, it’s tackling the question of “why finance needs blockchain.”
These two questions are very different.
In traditional finance, asset issuance, trading, clearing, and custody are often handled by different institutions and systems, with lots of manual processes and data silos in between.
The real opportunity for blockchain to change things is exactly the connections between these steps.
What Dusk wants to do is put financial assets, trading, and settlement into the same on-chain infrastructure layer.
For example, Dusk Trade is designed for financial assets like MMFs, ETFs, and bonds; DuskEVM provides a familiar EVM environment so developers can continue building applications with Solidity.
However, putting finance on-chain can’t simply copy Crypto’s playbook.
Institutions need privacy, regulators need auditability, and trades require deterministic settlement.
That’s why Dusk places “privacy + compliance + on-chain settlement” at the core of its design.
I think this is more interesting than just talking about the “trillion-dollar RWA market.”
Because the real question has never been: “How many assets can be tokenized?”
It has always been: “After these assets are put on-chain, will it truly improve the efficiency of the entire financial market?”
If you could choose only one, what do you think will be the biggest change blockchain brings to traditional finance in the future?
A: Reduce transaction costs
B: Improve settlement efficiency
C: Enable more assets to trade around the clock
Personally, I would choose B. What about you?
Recently I came across $DUSK , and one point that I find particularly interesting is:
It doesn’t seem in a hurry to prove whether “blockchain can be used for finance.” Instead, it’s tackling the question of “why finance needs blockchain.”
These two questions are very different.
In traditional finance, asset issuance, trading, clearing, and custody are often handled by different institutions and systems, with lots of manual processes and data silos in between.
The real opportunity for blockchain to change things is exactly the connections between these steps.
What Dusk wants to do is put financial assets, trading, and settlement into the same on-chain infrastructure layer.
For example, Dusk Trade is designed for financial assets like MMFs, ETFs, and bonds; DuskEVM provides a familiar EVM environment so developers can continue building applications with Solidity.
However, putting finance on-chain can’t simply copy Crypto’s playbook.
Institutions need privacy, regulators need auditability, and trades require deterministic settlement.
That’s why Dusk places “privacy + compliance + on-chain settlement” at the core of its design.
I think this is more interesting than just talking about the “trillion-dollar RWA market.”
Because the real question has never been: “How many assets can be tokenized?”
It has always been: “After these assets are put on-chain, will it truly improve the efficiency of the entire financial market?”
If you could choose only one, what do you think will be the biggest change blockchain brings to traditional finance in the future?
A: Reduce transaction costs
B: Improve settlement efficiency
C: Enable more assets to trade around the clock
Personally, I would choose B. What about you?