Bringing global financial markets fully onchain with compliant privacy. $DUSK
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The future of compliant, private finance starts with $DUSK.
Hedger Alpha is live for public testing, bringing confidential transactions to EVM.
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ZK doesn’t make everything anonymous by default, it allows for selective disclosure.
Dusk enables compliant, verifiable privacy onchain.
That’s what institutions need.
It's sad to see @CantonNetwork $CC are still pushing "ZK makes everything invisible". That's just wrong. ZK supports selective disclosure and can enable supervised disclosure when you design for it. We've built exactly that.
The "privacy" Canton provides is closer to TradFi access control than public verifiability, as it clearly states in their own docs that a sync domain is typically run by a single organization. (very decentralized ethos) docs.daml.com/canton/archite…
Meanwhile, the Canton website wrongly states they're "the first privacy-enabled open blockchain network", which is a blatant lie. There's multiple of those out there, including @DuskFoundation.
It also claims "no other network lets assets/data move across apps with guaranteed privacy without sacrificing trust or ceding control to central intermediaries." Yet the same material describes Canton as public-permissioned with a global synchronizer, and their architecture relies on synchronizers/mediators that see metadata and are often centrally operated. Pick one.
We don't need that weird network-of-walled-gardens. You can do shared-state, public/permissionless ledgers with privacy and compliance baked in, and institutions are fine with it. Our partnership with NPEX (EU-licensed MTF) proves the point. They're building with us on a bigger shared ledger, not a maze of private subnets.
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@HeinDauven is spot on here: as the regulatory side is no longer a blocker, architecture becomes a critical point.
The DLTR already enables trading and settlement fully on-chain if the architecture preserves verifiability. This is a real shift.
But there is still a structural gap.
The DLTR focuses on secondary infrastructure: trading, clearing, settlement.
Primary issuance largely remains legacy with registries and workflows managed by CSDs, Transfer Agents and an ungodly amount of intermediaries.
Bridging a security from Tradfi into DeFi requires a legal transfer-of-ledger-sovereignty. When issuance and registry are not natively on-chain, DLTR is only solving the endpoint, not the full lifecycle.
This is where architecture matters more than regulation. If you try to “add crypto” after designing for off-chain mediation
• Global state becomes fragmented
• Verifiability breaks
• Social recovery becomes impossible
• Crypto-native assets and RWAs cannot coexist
You need settlement and data availability rooted in a public, verifiable base layer, with privacy applied cryptographically, and where RWAs and crypto-native assets share the same execution environment without leaking strategic data, and without giving up censorship resistance or the ability to socially fork if needed.
-> If the base layer is transparent, institutions cannot use it.
-> If the base layer is opaque and unverifiable, crypto-native assets cannot trust it.
-> If the architecture is hybrid, complexity is too high.
The only viable path is: Public verifiability + cryptographic privacy + programmable compliance.
This is the equilibrium point where markets scale and we’re building toward.
$DUSK
The problem is architectural. Most compliance-first RWA stacks keep sensitive state with mediators to avoid data leakage. This breaks global verifiability (you can't recompute history from public data), which is what makes crypto-native assets auditable and gives you true self-custody.
In reality you do not need to choose between data privacy and auditability. If you keep verifiability on the base layer (guaranteeing data availability for every state transition) and push personal information into commitments, pseudonymous accounts or SSI, you can handle compliance at the application layer with proofs.
Transfer rules and corporate actions can be coded into smart contracts. Add selective disclosure through view keys or re-encryption for supervised access, and the main argument for off-chain mediation disappears.
Also worth noting, under the EU DLT Pilot Regime, entities licensed under MiFID II/MiFIR/CSDR can obtain exemptions to issue and trade securities fully on-chain, even on public networks. So there's no hard legal, only architectural choices.
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Control the settlement layer and you become the market.
Controlling the settlement layer means you define finality. Tune it for securities and you get atomic delivery versus payment (DvP), deterministic finality (seconds, not T+2 or probabilistic finality), native regulatory reporting and embedded compliance.
At that point the Central Security Depository functions converge on-chain: Institutions and users settle directly on the ledger, not via multiple parties that need to reconciliate.
Doing this compresses cycles, slashes failure rates and massively decreases operational cost. It turns auditing and ownership into a real-time property of the asset.
Tokenization moves data, programmable settlement establishes truth.
Own settlement and you don't just win market share, YOU become the market's source of truth.
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The future of compliant, private finance starts with $DUSK.
Hedger Alpha is live for public testing, bringing confidential transactions to EVM.
Watch the demo 👇
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I did this to provide liquidity and help trading, but 52% APR is crazy (not to mention $200 fees accrued in barely 3 hours). Didn't expect it to be this profitable.
And the good news is that on DuskEVM's blue ocean APR will be even higher.
$DUSK
Opened a DUSK/USDT Uniswap v4 pool to increase liquidity depth and tighten execution for traders.
Skin in the game, not slogans.
Next step: replicate this liquidity strategy natively on DuskEVM as soon™ as live.
app.uniswap.org/explore/pool…
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ICYMI: Dusk is integrated with Binance Pay
You can use $DUSK for instant, borderless payments, powered by @binance's 45M+ users and 32K+ global merchants.
You can now pay with $DUSK on Binance Pay.
Claim your free @DuskFoundation #DUSK red packet today!
👉 app.binance.com/pay-activity…
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Opened a DUSK/USDT Uniswap v4 pool to increase liquidity depth and tighten execution for traders.
Skin in the game, not slogans.
Next step: replicate this liquidity strategy natively on DuskEVM as soon™ as live.
app.uniswap.org/explore/pool…
Read the summary here: forum.dusk.network/t/dusk-br…
Watch the Bridge Demo below
piped.video/rC2uvQpdpVw
We’ve built seamless interoperability for $DUSK across our stack.
Yesterday, @kieranhall gave a live demo showing how you can bridge DUSK between our L1 and upcoming EVM-compatible L2 directly in our Web Wallet.
Check out the recording below 👇
Our CTO @HeinDauven is live now with @ZeusRWA on RWA’s & Chill 🎙️
Tune in 👇
x.com/i/spaces/1MnxnPrZXaBGO
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Privacy isn’t a “trend”. It’s the prerequisite for real finance on-chain.
Institutions cannot operate on transparent ledgers. Order flow, positions, client books, corporate actions, market-making strategies: these must remain confidential for markets to function without manipulation.
This is where most #RWA and “tokenized securities” narratives break. Without privacy, they’re demos.
@DuskFoundation is the only chain with privacy at both layers:
- DuskDS: private settlement at L1
- DuskEVM: private smart contract execution at L2
A world first.
DuskDS uses the Phoenix model for confidential settlement.
DuskEVM uses Hedger, combining homomorphic encryption + SNARK proofs for selective disclosure and programmable compliance:
- Regulators see what they must
- Markets retain confidentiality
- Settlement remains provably correct
This aligns with actual market structure (MiFID II, MTF, MAR, MiCA).
Not whitepaper theory. Actual trading engine. Actual regulated integrations.
Finance won’t adopt transparent ledgers.
It will adopt private, verifiable settlement layers.
That is $DUSK.
Not loud.
Inevitable.
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We’re joining @ZeusRWA this Friday on RWA’s & Chill.
Talking regulated RWAs, compliant privacy, and real adoption.
Tune in at 12PM UTC 👇
RWA’s & Chill | Episode 20
Friday 7th November, 12pm UTC.
Speakers include:
@IxsFinance
@DuskFoundation
@edeldotfinance
Turn on reminders below ⬇️
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Friendly reminder of how much of a privacy OG $DUSK is.
Our Lead Cryptographer Dmitry Khovratovich co‑designed Equihash (original $ZEC PoW) and co‑authored the Poseidon hash function (Vitalik wants it in $ETH)
eprint.iacr.org/2019/458.pdf
This is an early alpha version, expect occasional bugs and minimal UI/UX. More features and improvements will roll out over time.
Join the testing, share your feedback, and help write the next chapter of Dusk!
Hedger combines ZKPs and HE to keep balances and amounts private, while remaining verifiable onchain.
This testing version runs on Sepolia and lets you:
• Deposit / Shield ETH
• Withdraw / Unshield ETH
• Send confidential transactions
Get access here ↓
forum.dusk.network/t/hedger-…