SME-tokenization piece on their blog this week (Aug 15) and I sat with it longer than planned during the #Dusk CreatorPad task… something about it didn't sit right at first.
The whole writeup walks through issuance, investor onboarding, settlement — six stages, one shared ownership record. Solid framing. But scroll to the bottom and the actual ask is "join the Dusk Trade waitlist." Not a grant application. Not a builder doc. A waitlist, for institutions and NPEX-adjacent flows.
Meanwhile the community-facing side — the actual $DUSK grants/dev fund stuff — still reads thinner than the roadmap suggests. Only one dApp really live on the ecosystem side while the tokenization messaging keeps expanding outward toward banks and regulated venues.
Hmm. Makes sense commercially — institutions move first, compliance infra needs anchor clients before it needs hobbyist tooling. Still, it's a good reminder to separate "grant program exists" from "grant program is actively distributing to independent builders right now."
@Dusk Anyone actually gotten a grant response back this cycle, or is it still mostly inbound applications sitting in review?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk
The whole writeup walks through issuance, investor onboarding, settlement — six stages, one shared ownership record. Solid framing. But scroll to the bottom and the actual ask is "join the Dusk Trade waitlist." Not a grant application. Not a builder doc. A waitlist, for institutions and NPEX-adjacent flows.
Meanwhile the community-facing side — the actual $DUSK grants/dev fund stuff — still reads thinner than the roadmap suggests. Only one dApp really live on the ecosystem side while the tokenization messaging keeps expanding outward toward banks and regulated venues.
Hmm. Makes sense commercially — institutions move first, compliance infra needs anchor clients before it needs hobbyist tooling. Still, it's a good reminder to separate "grant program exists" from "grant program is actively distributing to independent builders right now."
@Dusk Anyone actually gotten a grant response back this cycle, or is it still mostly inbound applications sitting in review?
#dusk $DUSK @Dusk