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I remember lending a friend money & telling him he could just pay me back in cash or if he ever found someone selling my own IOU for less than its face value he could buy that instead & hand it back to me same debt cleared cheaper for him. Thats basically what caught my attention reading how @TermMax lets borrowers repay debt recorded in the GT. You have got 2 paths:

PAY BACK THE EXACT AMOUNT OF DEBT TOKENS OWED OR GO INTO THE OPEN MARKET BUY UP FT & RETURN THOSE TO CLOSE THE POSITION INSTEAD.

What makes the 2nd option interesting is that FTs typically trade below face value before maturity so a borrower who times it right is not repaying dollar for dollar they are repaying at a discount simply because the market priced that FT lower ahead of maturity. Its a clean mechanism on paper letting market pricing do work that would otherwise just sit as fixed debt. But i keep wondering how thin that discount actually gets once liquidity tightens or maturity gets close does the opportunity mostly exist in calm condition or does it hold up when things get volatile too ?

#TermMax @TermMax $TMX
$ACE $CLO $1000RATS

I have a friend he trade old family bonds through a broker & every time he sold one there'd be a mismatch somewhere the ownership record said one thing the custody file said another, and settlement always lagged a day or two behind whatever the token or certificate claimed. That mess is what came back to me when i looked closer at @Dusk s native issuance approach. With wrapper tokenization anyone can wrap an asset into a token but trading, clearing, custody & settlement often stay stuck in separate records elsewhere so token end up being a representation sitting on top of the same old fragmented plumbing my friend kept running into. @Dusk approach looks different because the same asset record stay connected the whole way through, issuance, ownership, transfers, settlement, servicing, & reporting, instead of getting split across system that dont talk to each other. That made me think the real idea here is not just turning a bond into a token. Its about keeping the entire journey of that asset connected end to end instead of adding another token layer on top of infrastructure that was never built to sync with it. Im still not sure how much this actually change once real financial assets & serious volume start moving through @Dusk though. Is keeping the full lifecycle on chain genuinely enough to fix the kind of mismatch my friend dealt with or does that complexity just resurface somewhere else once scale kicks in ?

@Dusk #dusk $DUSK
$CLO & $TUT 👆🏻up

worth setting a reminder for this one 👀

@DuskFoundation CEO + CTO joining Binance Square tomorrow for a live AMA
Aug 19 • 15:00 CEST

and 6,550 $DUSK in rewards too definitely joining this one

Can't wait lets gooooo

$BTC around $64K and honestly the chart is only half the story today
us 30y yield touched 5.32%, oil is back above $91 and the iran situation is heating up again

usually not the nicest combo for risk assets

still btc is holding around this area instead of completely falling apart

days like this i watch bonds and oil more than random 5 minute candles 🧐

I almost skipped this $ETH update because new testnet sounds boring
But glamsterdam is actually getting its public testing ground now

ethereum launched platåberget and the glamsterdam fork there is scheduled for August 20

important part: this is still testing not mainnet

so now we get to see what breaks before the real upgrade gets anywhere near users

this is the kind of eth progress i prefer watching over price predictions

I expected any crosschain transfer to involve some kind of pool absorbing the trade on the other side. @Dusk CCT model skips that step entirely.

Burn & mint means the token on the sourcechain is destroyed & an equivalent amount is minted on the destination chain. There is no pooled liquidity standing between those two states no pair being traded against nothing to slip against.

Thats a different failure mode than what most bridges carry. Poolbased transfers depend on someone else capital being deep enough & honest enough at the moment you move. @Dusk burn mint depends only on the protocols own mint & burn logic being correct and synchronized across chains.

Which shifts the risk rather than removing it. You are no longer exposed to liquidity depth but you are fully exposed to the integrity of the burn confirmation before mint happens. If that confirmation step is slow or contested @Dusk zero slippage promise holds while something else timing finality becomes the actual bottleneck.

What happens to a dusk transfer if the burn is confirmed on 1 chain but the mint side stalls before it completes..?

@Dusk #dusk $DUSK is going to explode more then $GPS & $STAR

I assumed FT & XT traded as independent tokens each pricing off its own supply & demand like any other pair on @TermMax .

The documentation corrects that. At any moment, 1 FT + 1 XT equals exactly one debt token. Thats not a market equilibrium its a fixed identity built into how @TermMax structures the pair. Whatever XT is worth FT quietly absorb the rest to keep the sum constant.

The detail that changes the picture is maturity. FT redeems for the debt token outright. XT redeems for nothing. So the value XT was contributing to that one debt token the whole time was not really its own it was time value on loan.

That means XTs decline toward zero is not a sentiment shift its a mechanical consequence of how @TermMax defines the relationship between the two tokens as maturity approaches.

Which leaves an open question:

does the market price XT as a decaying claim from the start or does that adjustment only become visible once maturity stops being distant and starts being imminent ?

@TermMax #TermMax
$ACE , $GPS & $PORTAL leading the gainer list but im waiting for @TermMax coin maybe $TMX

$GDX coming to Binance perp today 👀
The stock is already up around 3% and now we are getting a fresh market with zero chart history

Im not guessing long or short before launch tbh
the first few candles will probably tell the real story

$PORTAL & $DOLO top on gainer lists... woke up checked the list half my watchlist flipped green overnight and im sitting here still holding the bag from last week 😂 anyway market is doing its thing lets talk about something that make sense tomorrow #Dusk

I think the public address & the shielded address in my wallet were just two separate products bolted together pick one & commit to it. Then i looked closer at how @Dusk ties them under the same profile & that assumption fell apart a bit. One seed generates multiple profiles & each profile can carry both a public address & a shielded address side by side not as competing options but as two modes you move between depending on the moment.

What i like here is the underlying claim :

privacy dont have to mean disappearing entirely. You can let a payment sit in plain view when transparency actually helps you, a payroll transaction, a public donation, proof of reserves & shield a different transaction when the details genuinely not anyone elses business. Same identity underneath different visibility depending on the transaction.

Im still working things out is usage patterns not architecture. Wallets rarely fail because the cryptography is weak, they fail because people default to whatever is easiest & never touch the other option again. So the open question for me is not whether @Dusk can support both it clearly can its whether users will actually alternate between them or just settle into one out of habit.

Would you rather have a single address for everything or the choice between public and shielded depending on what you are doing ?

@Dusk $DUSK #dusk

$HEMI keeps doing the same thing 😅
pump hard → dump a bit → scare everyone → then buyers come back again

from around 0.0045 to 0.00845 and every pullback so far got bought pretty fast

this kind of chart is dangerous to chase but also hard to short too early

for now the pullbacks are looking more like resets than a full reversal

LONG or SHORT ?

I remember a friend asked me if his payment had gone through & i could not give him a straight answer without knowing which chain he used, because done means something different depending on the system underneath. That what got me looking closer at how @Dusk handles finality. Most chains give you one checkpoint yes or no but @Dusk breaks it into four :
accepted first, then confirmed once other blocks stack on top, then stable as it gets buried deeper still, and only at the last stage does it become truly final in the sense that nothing can ever reverse it. Actually i respect that honesty it admits final was never really one clean moment to begin with. But i keep going back & forth on whether that nuance helps anyone outside a protocol engineers head, because most people just want to know if their money moved not which of four stages its currently sitting in. So im left wondering, is @Dusk giving users real visibility into something that matters or just surfacing a technical distinction that never needed to leave the whitepaper..?
@Dusk $DUSK #dusk
top gainer right now $COW 🔥
$ACE dumping

$COW was basically sleeping around $0.10 and then just exploded to $0.16
almost 60% up in a few candles and still sitting near the high

this is the kind of move where chasing late can hurt fast… but the strength is crazy right now