I kept hearing tokenized money market fund thrown around like it was one simple thing until I actually looked into what happens when you buy one. Turns out most of them work the same way. A custodial fund holds the real shares off chain and a token gets minted that just points to that off chain position. You don't own the fund. You own a claim on someone else's promise that the fund exists and will honor redemption.

That distinction sounds small until you think about what happens during stress. If the custodian freezes redemptions or the bridge breaks or the off chain registry falls behind the on chain token supply your ownership is only as good as that intermediary's willingness and ability to make good on it.

What got me curious about Dusk is the opposite design. The idea is that the token itself is meant to be the actual on chain record of ownership. There's no separate off chain ledger you're hoping stays in sync. When a transfer happens it settles atomically and that settlement is the ownership change itself instead of an instruction sent somewhere else to update a private book.

That's the real difference between holding an IOU and holding the asset itself. Instant settlement isn't just a speed feature here. It's what actually makes the ownership real instead of promised.

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