one thing i think gets overlooked with @Dusk is that privacy by itself isn’t enough for serious financial markets.
you can hide a transaction perfectly, but if nobody knows exactly when ownership is final, that still creates risk.
that’s why i find the settlement side just as important as the ZK side.
DuskVM and DuskEVM can handle execution, while DuskDS sits underneath for consensus, data availability and final settlement. once a block is finalized, the outcome isn’t left hanging around waiting for “probably confirmed.”
for regulated assets that matters a lot.
privacy protects the people involved in the trade.
finality protects the trade itself.
and imo $DUSK becomes much more interesting when you look at both together instead of seeing it as just another privacy chain.
The 60x AP on @TermMax Dual Investment obviously grabs attention, but I think focusing only on the points misses what users are actually doing underneath.
When you deposit into a Dual Investment vault, you’re essentially providing liquidity to the other side of an options trade.
Deposit USDT and, depending on where the market settles relative to the strike price, you may end up receiving the underlying token. Deposit the token instead and there’s a scenario where it gets converted into USDT at the predetermined strike.
So this isn’t just “deposit funds, farm AP and leave.”
You’re making a market decision.
That’s why the 60x AP multiplier is interesting to me. It can bring a completely different type of user into these vaults. One person might enter because they’re comfortable buying a token around a particular strike. Another might already want to sell at that level. And then you’ll inevitably have users whose main objective is accumulating as much AP as possible.
Same vault, very different reasons for being there.
The question I keep coming back to is what happens when points stop dominating the calculation.
If users still choose these positions because the premium, strike and maturity make sense on their own, then @TermMax has built something much more valuable than an incentive farm.
The 60x AP can attract liquidity today.
The underlying strategy has to give that liquidity a reason to stay tomorrow.