Rishi Bharadvaja

Dusk Mainnet: A New Era for Privacy and Programmability
The launch of the $DUSK Mainnet marks a massive milestone in the journey toward a truly fair financial market. Unlike other networks that rely on third-party privacy tools, @Dusk has built its own custom consensus—Segregated Byzantine Agreement (SBA)—which combines privacy with high-speed performance.
Key features now live or upcoming:
DuskEVM: Seamlessly migrate Ethereum dApps to a privacy-first environment.Citadel: A ZK-identity protocol that allows for "reusable" KYC across different apps.Direct Staking: Secure the network and earn rewards while maintaining anonymity.
$DUSK is proving that you don't have to choose between privacy and regulation. You can have both.
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For a long time, building privacy-preserving applications meant learning complex new languages. With the recent launch of DuskEVM, @Dusk has changed the game by offering full Solidity compatibility.
Developers can now take their existing Ethereum-based code and deploy it on a network that offers:
Native Privacy: Using the Phoenix transaction model to obfuscate transactions and smart contract calls.Instant Finality: Powered by the Succinct Attestation (SA) consensus, ensuring transactions are final and irreversible in seconds.Institutional Security: A modular architecture where the DuskDS layer handles settlement and data availability with high efficiency.
By combining the ease of EVM with the power of ZK-proofs, $DUSK is positioning itself as the leading infrastructure for the next generation of private dApps.
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The primary hurdle for institutions entering DeFi has always been the conflict between public transparency and the need for confidentiality. @Dusk is effectively bridging this gap by providing a "Shielded Ledger" for the financial world.
Unlike traditional public blockchains that expose all transaction data, $DUSK utilizes native Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) to ensure that sensitive trade data remains hidden while staying 100% compliant with global regulations like MiCA. Through its Citadel protocol, users can prove their identity—such as being over a certain age or residing in a specific jurisdiction—without ever revealing their actual private data. This "compliance-by-design" approach makes it a unique Layer-1 powerhouse for Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization. #dusk

While @Walrus 🦭/acc uses the high-performance Sui blockchain as its "control plane" for metadata and settlement, the storage layer itself is designed to be chain-agnostic. This is a major win for the multi-chain future. Developers on Ethereum, Solana, or Polygon can leverage Walrus to store their application's "heavy lifting"—like full frontends, PDFs, or media files—without migrating their entire project. Through developer-friendly SDKs and APIs, Walrus bridges the gap between different ecosystems, acting as a universal data layer. This flexibility ensures that no matter where your smart contracts live, your data remains fast, dynamic, and verifiable across the entire Web3 stack $WAL #walrus

AI agents and models require massive, tamper-proof datasets, but storing gigabytes of training data on a standard L1 is prohibitively expensive. @Walrus 🦭/acc solves this by providing a specialized "blob" storage layer that keeps heavy data off-chain while maintaining on-chain verifiability. AI teams can store model weights and "ground truth" datasets securely, ensuring they are always available for audit or inference without bloating the main ledger. With its low-latency performance and decentralized nature, Walrus is becoming the go-to infrastructure for the "Decentralized AI" (DeAI) movement. By using $WAL to secure this data, we ensure a future where AI isn't just powerful, but also transparent and censorship-resistant. #walrus

The decentralized storage landscape is evolving, and @Walrus 🦭/acc is leading the charge with its innovative approach to handling massive data. Unlike traditional systems that rely on simple replication, Walrus uses a 2D erasure-coding scheme called "RedStuff." This allows data to be reconstructed even if up to two-thirds of the storage nodes go offline, all while maintaining a low replication factor of just 4–5x. For developers in the Sui ecosystem, $WAL isn't just a token; it's the fuel for a programmable storage layer. Imagine NFTs with gigabytes of mutable metadata or AI models whose training sets are verifiable and tamper-proof on-chain. By transforming "blobs" into first-class Sui objects, Walrus enables a level of composability we haven't seen in Web3 before. As we move toward a more data-intensive decentralized future, the efficiency and security of the #Walrus protocol set a new standard for what infrastructure should look like.
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