#dusk $DUSK @Dusk The settlement documentation has a term most people treat as jargon — Delivery vs Payment (DvP). Worth being precise about what it actually means.
The surprising part: DvP isn't "fast settlement." It's atomic settlement. The distinction is significant.
Dusk's circulating supply sits at approximately 500M of a 1B max — the remaining 500M scheduled to emit over the next 30+ years. The staking and settlement mechanisms have been running on a live chain since January 2025, making DvP a tested, not theoretical, property.
DvP means: the asset leg (delivery) and the payment leg (payment) settle simultaneously, as a single atomic operation. Either both complete, or neither does. No partial settlement.
Fast settlement is different. A system can settle in 2 seconds but still have two legs that could, in theory, fail independently. If the payment clears but the asset transfer fails — or vice versa — you have settlement risk, just a faster version of it.
The comparison: T+2 settlement (traditional finance, two business days) vs T+0 instant settlement vs true DvP. T+0 is fast. DvP is different — it removes the counterparty risk between the legs, not just the time.
Not saying every use case needs DvP. For low-stakes transfers, atomic settlement is overkill. For a regulated bond trade where the payment is legally linked to the delivery, atomicity is the requirement.
Is there a real-world example where a DvP-capable system failed at atomicity under load — and what caused the failure? @Dusk
#termmax @TermMax I was looking at TermMaxs token design again, and the part that actually clicked for me wasnt the Fixed-Rate Token. It was the relationship between the FT and the XT, because together they basically split a loan into principal and yield.
Heres the simple version. TermMax says 1 FT + 1 XT = 1 debt token. The FT represents the right to receive the debt token at maturity, while the XT is the complementary piece that carries the yield component.
So imagine 1 USDC debt. You can think of it as being separated into two claims, one that matures into the principal and another that represents the yield.
That sounds unnecessarily complicated until you look at what it lets the protocol do.
The borrower can create FTs against collateral, sell the interest component for liquidity, and lock in the borrowing economics at the start. The lender gets exposure to the fixed return through the corresponding token structure.
Its basically the same financial idea as separating the principal of a bond from its interest cashflows, except the pieces are tokens that can move around on-chain.
And thats the part I find interesting. TermMax isnt just putting a fixed rate on top of a normal DeFi loan. Its actually turning the different economic claims inside the loan into tradeable objects.
The question I keep coming back to is whether splitting one debt obligation into separate tokens creates genuinely better markets, or just more complexity that users eventually have to understand. @TermMax $BTW $ACE $EDEN #TermMax
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk Most people check a tokens inflation as a single number x% per year and move on. DUSK doesnt really work like that and the actual schedule is worth looking at.
The staking rewards come from a fixed pool 500 million DUSK released over roughly 36 years. But not evenly. The emission follows a geometric decay it halves every four years. If that sounds familiar its the same shape as Bitcoins halving.
So new DUSK enters fastest early on then the rate keeps cutting in half tailing off over decades until the 500 million is exhausted. Its a decaying front loaded schedule not a flat drip.
Two honest observations from that and neither is a price call.
First the reassuring part issuance is capped and predictable. Theres a hard ceiling the curve is known in advance and long term the new supply pressure shrinks toward nothing. You can model it.
Second the less comfortable part front loaded means the heaviest emissions are happening now in these early years not in some distant future. A holder today is sitting through the highest dilution phase not the tail. It halves later is cold comfort if youre here for the first halving.
And a halving schedule only controls supply. It says nothing about demand. Bitcoins halvings matter because theres demand meeting a shrinking supply a decaying emission into weak demand is just slower dilution not a tailwind.
Not saying the schedule is bullish. Not saying its bearish either. Its just structure a known decaying supply curve you can actually plan around which is more than a lot of tokens offer.
heres the real debate for holders does a decaying Bitcoin style emission actually help you when the heaviest dilution is happening now and the relief is decades away? @Dusk
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk I went in expecting Dusks privacy to be some proprietary secret sauce It isnt Its built almost entirely from public standard cryptography.
I checked the whitepaper for this not just the marketing The privacy and verification run on named well known primitives PLONK and Groth16 for the zero knowledge proofs BLS12 381 and JubJub as the elliptic curves Poseidon and Blake2b for hashing Schnorr and BLS for signatures Merkle trees for membership.
None of that is invented by Dusk Every one of those is public peer reviewed and used across the wider ZK and crypto world In the node they even show up as plain host functions verify plonk verify schnorr verify bls You can read what they are.
That matters more than it sounds Trust our privacy is a weak pitch because it asks you to trust a black box Our privacy is standard audited math you can inspect is a different kind of claim its checkable.
I dont think using public primitives is automatically safer plenty of projects use good crypto and still ship a broken implementation The primitives being sound doesnt prove the assembly is sound.
But it does remove the worst version of the risk a secret unaudited scheme nobody outside the team has looked at Here at least the ingredients are known quantities.
The part i keep circling back to if the hard math is all public and shared where does Dusks actual edge come from the specific way it combines these into confidential yet compliant transactions or something else entirely? @Dusk _Foundation $GPS $STAR #dusk
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk I always pictured DUSK as living on one chain its own. Turns out its set up to move across several and the mechanism is more interesting than i expected. The way it works isnt a normal bridge. Dusk uses Chainlinks CrossChain Token standard CCT to move DUSK between chains like Ethereum and Solana. Instead of locking tokens on one side and minting a wrapped copy on the other it burns the token on the source chain and mints the real thing on the destination. No wrapped IOU sitting in a bridge contract. That detail matters because bridges are where a lot of crypto has been lost. Most hacks werent the chains failing they were the bridge in the middle holding locked funds. Burnandmint removes that pot of honey. It also means zero slippage transfers one DUSK in one DUSK out not a swap through liquidity. And the same CCIP setup reaches 65+ chains so this isnt just an Ethereum Solana thing. If im honest cross chain is one of those features that sounds routine until you remember how badly the old version of it went. Doing it through Chainlink instead of a custom bridge is a real risk decision not just a convenience. The open question for me is adoption a safer crosschain design only matters if DUSK actually needs to move across chains and that depends on real usage showing up on those chains first. For anyone whos used CCT-based transfers, does burn-and-mint actually feel different in practice, or is it invisible once youre just moving tokens? @dusk #dusk $HEMI $AKE
€200 Million は別物です。Dusk の Chainlink に関する発表では、NPEX が 100+ の SME に対して €200 million 以上のファイナンスを仲介した(17,500+ のアクティブ投資家)とされています。これは実績=過去の活動であり、オンチェーンの目標ではありません。@Dusk
BOMEには実在のアイデンティティがあります。ミームの書(Book of Meme)で、昨年ローンチされたSolanaプロジェクトです。オンチェーンでインターネットのミーム文化をアーカイブすることを軸にしています。今日、価格がどちらの方向に動く理由としてそれが強いとは言いませんが、このプロジェクト自体が実在していて、記録もあるということは言えます。