#dusk $DUSK @Dusk Something about Dusk's storage design bugs me, in a good way. Piecrust, their VM, writes state to disk in 64KB chunks full WASM memory pages. Ethereum writes in 32-byte slots. That's roughly a 2,000x gap in granularity, just to update one value.
Why so coarse? Dusk skips the key value storage API entirely. A contract's whole memory is its state. Write a plain Rust struct, use a BTreeMap, and it persists automatically no SSTORE-style bookkeeping. For teams coming from traditional finance rather than Solidity, that's genuinely easier to build on.
But whole-memory persistence doesn't scale for free, and the team clearly hit that wall. They built dirty-page tracking so only changed pages get rewritten instead of the entire snapshot every time. Smart fix. Still, the unit of "changed" is a 64KB page, not a few bytes. A ledger with thousands of entries, touched by one transaction, could still dirty several scattered pages just from how the allocator lays memory out. Feels like a real tradeoff, not a solved problem.
I haven't seen load benchmarks on this yet. So genuinely curious has anyone pressure-tested Piecrust under actual high-frequency settlement traffic?
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#dusk $DUSK @Dusk Dusk caps blocks at 1MB.....Sounds almost quaint next to chains bragging about gigabyte blocks until you run the math on what actually fits inside.👀
That ceiling holds roughly 250 Phoenix transactions . Divide it out and each confidential transfer eats close to 4KB, while a plain UTXO transfer elsewhere fits in a few hundred bytes. The gap is the ZK proof itself nullifiers, commitments, PLONK verification data the literal cost of hiding sender, receiver, and amount.
Run the throughput math against Dusk's roughly 10-second block time and confidential capacity lands around 25 TPS. Fine for early institutional pilots. Less fine if XSC securities settlement ever hits real volume alongside public Moonlight activity competing for the same block space.
Raising the cap is the obvious fix, and it's configurable. But bigger blocks mean more bandwidth every Kadcast peer relays and more storage every provisioner holds a cost that falls hardest on smaller node operators, not the institutions the chain is courting.
Privacy has a byte cost, and byte cost has a centralization cost. DUSK's value depends on absorbing real settlement volume without quietly outsourcing block production to whoever can afford the pipe.
Does the current design scale that far, or just far enough to look good on testnet?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk Ok so ....A few weeks back I tried sketching out what it'd take to move a small private company's cap table onto a blockchain. Not as a thought experiment actually mapping the fields. Names, share classes, transfer restrictions, who's allowed to buy from whom. That exercise is what got me into Dusk's XSC Standard.
Most security token setups I've looked at bolt permissions onto a transparent token. You can see every balance, every holder, every transfer the restrictions just stop certain wallets from moving funds. XSC does something different. The ownership data itself isn't sitting there in plain view. Compliance rules run inside the contract, and who gets to see what is something you actually configure, not something the chain forces on everyone by default.
Running through Dusk's testnet, what got me wasn't some flashy feature. It was how normal the process felt — closer to setting up permissions in a spreadsheet than "using crypto." That's honestly reassuring for something meant to hold real securities.
The upside is real: no separate transfer agent keeping a private ledger somewhere else. The register lives in the contract. The catch is that your confidentiality now depends on you managing keys properly — lose the wrong key and you've lost your own audit trail, something a traditional registrar would never let happen.
Would you trust code to replace a transfer agent, or does that job still need a human?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk Ok so...i finally sat down when I first read "confidential security contracts," I assumed it was another privacy coin dressed up in compliance language. Dug through Dusk's docs anyway, because I've been burned before by projects that throw around the word "regulated" with nothing behind it....🤔
The XSC standard turned out narrower than I expected, in a good way. It's built on Zedger, which keeps ownership and transfers private but still lets an issuer prove someone's accredited, under a transfer cap, or only holding one account, without putting any of that on a public ledger for anyone to scrape. That's the part that actually resembles how securities work off-chain. Most tokenized-stock projects I've read about just wrap an ERC-20 around a claim and call it done, and the privacy problem never gets solved, just skipped.⛓️💥
What actually stood out wasn't the zero-knowledge part, plenty of chains have that now. It was how mundane the rest of it is. Dividend payouts, redemptions, transfer restrictions, built into the standard instead of every issuer writing their own version and hoping it holds up. Mundane is usually a good sign for financial infrastructure.✴️
The catch I keep coming back to: none of this means much unless issuers and regulators actually converge on one standard instead of each building their own flavor. NPEX is one live example. One exchange isn't an ecosystem.
Has anyone here actually poked around Dusk's testnet themselves, or is this still theoretical for most people watching it?
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#termmax @TermMax I used to think orderbooks were the obvious choice for fixed-rate DeFi.
Then I looked more closely at what TermMax was trying to solve....🤔An orderbook is great when you already have traders showing up with opinions on price. But fixed-rate lending has a chicken-and-egg problem: without enough borrowers and lenders at the same maturity, the book can just sit there looking precise while barely doing anything.
That’s why TermMax moving toward an AMM makes sense to me. The practical win is liquidity can be available without waiting for someone to post the other side of my trade. I care about that more than having a beautifully displayed book if I can’t actually execute against it. TermMax’s own history shows the earlier orderbook/auction design ran into liquidity and complexity problems.
But I wouldn’t call the switch an obvious upgrade....✴️
The uncomfortable tradeoff is price discovery. With an orderbook, I can see where actual participants are willing to transact. With an AMM, I’m trusting the curve to tell me what the market is worth. If that curve is wrong, especially when liquidity is thin, “instant execution” can simply mean instant mispricing.So the real test isn’t whether TermMax can replace the orderbook....⛓️💥
It’s whether its curve can stay honest when the market stops behaving nicely.
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