I stopped looking at the $DUSK chart for a moment and checked something I think matters more for a project targeting regulated finance: security.

Dusk positions itself around institutional-grade, MiCA-compliant infrastructure and tokenized securities. That naturally made me curious about how much of that security framework is already in place.

The CER scorecard gave me a mixed picture.

Overall security rating: 29%
Audit coverage: 30%
Insurance: 0%
Bug bounty: 0%

The zero on bug bounty stood out the most.

If the long-term target includes banks, custodians and regulated financial institutions, I’d expect security incentives and external protection programs to become a much bigger part of the picture.

That doesn't automatically make Dusk a bad or unsafe project. L1s often build these layers gradually. But there is a noticeable gap between the institutional narrative and the security infrastructure that appears to be in place today.

Price was around $0.061, with 24h volume just under $2M. Nothing unusual there.

What stayed on my mind wasn't the price.

It was the 0%.

For an ecosystem trying to bring regulated assets onchain, security isn't something institutions can treat as a future feature. It has to be part of the foundation.
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