#dusk $DUSK
If most blockchains are glass storefronts, Dusk is trying to be a bank vault with a compliance viewing window.
That “window” is the point: you can keep sensitive positions and flows private by default, while still being able to prove what happened when a regulated counterparty (or auditor) needs evidence. The modular stack makes this feel less like ideology and more like engineering—DuskDS anchors settlement and data availability, and DuskEVM gives builders familiar EVM tooling without forcing the base layer to become a forever-upgrading science project.
Two concrete markers show how long and how deliberate this has been: Dusk’s tokenomics documentation notes the project raised $8M in November 2018 with tokens priced at $0.0404, and then—years later—deployed a Rusk release candidate to the DuskDS (Nocturne) testnet on November 10, 2025, explicitly as a milestone toward DuskEVM testnet readiness.
Takeaway: Dusk is building “selective visibility” as infrastructure—privacy for participants, proof for institutions—so regulated finance can move on-chain without turning transparency into a liability.