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@Dusk , together with NPEX, have partnered with Quantoz Payments, to bring EURQ to Dusk.
Based in the Netherlands, Quantoz Payments works in the same space as us; bringing regulated finance on-chain. With their infrastructure, Quantoz payments are one step closer to ushering in the mass adoption of Dusk. They couldn’t have found a better partner! EURQ is their digital euro, designed to fully comply with MiCA regulations, and suitable for regulated use cases.
Dusk is one of three blockchains where you are able to access EURQ, and the only one purpose-built for the native issuance of Real World Assets and with compliance built in from the beginning.
EURQ is more than just a stablecoin, it is an Electronic Money Token (EMT), suitable for use as legal tender. This is not just a stablecoin, this is a digital euro.

This partnership opens up many exciting avenues for us, including:
✓ A fully on-chain stock exchange. Quantoz payments are being working with NPEX for some time to build this, and EURQ is a vital piece, allowing investors to not only have access to a stablecoin, but to an actual euro.
✓ Dusk Pay. The integration of Quantoz Payments is a vital piece for Dusk Pay, their on-chain payment systems. Dusk Pay aims to provide fast, cheap, regulatorily compliant on-chain payments, and having a stablecoin that meets these requirements is a necessity. With Quantoz, Dusk Pay gets a lot closer.

• On-chain, regulated finance:
The partnership allows for:
✓ Enhanced Accessibility: Providing a digital euro that facilitates secure and instant transactions for users and enterprises using the Dusk blockchain.
✓ Streamlined Settlements: Simplifying cross-border and B2B transactions with Quantoz Payments’ regulatory-compliant framework, reducing friction for businesses adopting blockchain solutions.
✓ Boosted Liquidity: Enabling new use cases such as tokenized securities, decentralized finance (DeFi), and digital payments, supported by a robust and euro-denominated settlement mechanism.
✓ Regulatory Confidence: With all three parties being compliant with the most stringent regulatory regime in the world, this partnership paves the way for real-world assets and regulated finance to be compliantly brought on-chain.
• Empowering Enterprises with EURQ:
The integration of Quantoz within the Dusk ecosystem opens new opportunities for enterprises to:
✓ Issue tokenized assets with euro-backed stability.
✓ Conduct real-time, low-cost settlements across borders.
✓ Adopt blockchain-powered financial services with confidence in regulatory compliance
• Closing the gap between TradFi and DeFi:
#Dusk partnership with Quantoz Payments helps us to close the gap between on-chain decentralized finance, and off-chain centralized finance, and means Dusk is not confined to the crypto sandbox, but instead has access to the entire economy.
Not just the trillion-dollar assets market, but day-to-day, high-volume, high-transaction retail payments too. With Quantoz, Dusk can enter into industries and spaces that have been largely off-limits to crypto protocols.
Not only are we building a fully on-chain stock exchange with NPEX, bringing 300M EUR of assets on-chain, we are now able to provide payment rails through Quantoz.
This means more transactions and more TVL on Dusk from outside of the crypto space. People will be transacting on Dusk without ever having to use blockchain. Rather, Dusk will be the seamless infrastructure behind the scenes.
Quantoz payments are thrilled with this huge step forward in achieving their goal of spearheading regulated and decentralized finance, streamlining legacy infrastructure, breaking crypto out of its sandbox, and gaining access to all regulated financial activities.
$DUSK

@Dusk is thrilled to announce a key partnership with Cordial Systems, marking a major step toward the realization of a fully blockchain-powered financial ecosystem. This partnership represents a key milestone in Dusk’s vision for an on-chain financial future. The rapid adoption of tokenized assets is reshaping capital markets, unlocking new efficiencies, liquidity, and transparency, and at Dusk we are at the forefront of delivering real solutions for institutions.
• Cordial Systems: Strategic Partners
Cordial Systems has established itself as a trusted innovator in the tokenization sector, collaborating with industry leaders such as Figure Markets and its parent company, Figure.com, which has facilitated the origination of over $20 billion in private credit on-chain.
For our integration with NPEX, Cordial Treasury was the ideal solution, offering a seamless deployment process and fully on-premises infrastructure. Given its status as a regulated financial institution, NPEX prioritizes maintaining direct control over its technology stack, avoiding the risks associated with third-party SaaS custody solutions. Cordial’s expertise in blockchain integration—capable of adding support for new networks within weeks—enabled a smooth connection with Dusk’s approved Layer 1 blockchain.
#Dusk is thrilled to partner with such a trustworthy and impressive partner, and are excited for the opportunities their custodial solution will open up.
• Dusk Institution-Grade Custody: The Backbone of Secure Digital Asset Management

A key element of this initiative is 'Dusk Vault', which provides a secure and compliant custody solution tailored for financial institutions. NPEX is not just an integration partner but also a client, further validating the reliability and security of Dusk’s custody infrastructure.
By leveraging 'Cordial Treasury', a self-hosted wallet technology developed by Cordial Systems, institutions like NPEX can maintain full control over their digital asset custody. This eliminates dependence on third-party SaaS providers, ensuring operational resilience and regulatory compliance.
This strategic move not only enhances security but also accelerates institutional adoption of Dusk’s Layer 1 blockchain, making it a preferred choice for compliant digital asset transactions.
• Why This Partnership is Key to Dusk’s Future Plans?
This collaboration is a cornerstone of Dusk’s broader vision to build a fully decentralized and compliant financial ecosystem. By working with NPEX and Cordial Systems, Dusk is ensuring that traditional financial institutions can truly transition to blockchain-based infrastructure without compromising on security, regulation, or operational efficiency. Not just a few tokenized products here and there that are still managed and issued off-chain, but bringing the entire system onto the Dusk blockchain.
With the expansion of on-chain finance, we will introduce custody solutions for all digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokenized securities, and commodities. This will significantly streamline institutional onboarding, making Dusk an integral player in the convergence of blockchain and traditional finance.
• Redefining the Future of Finance:
As the demand for blockchain-based financial solutions grows, partnerships like this will define the next generation of capital markets. Dusk remains at the forefront of innovation, ensuring that institutions can leverage decentralized ledger technology while adhering to the strictest compliance standards.
For institutions looking to embrace the next wave of digital finance, Dusk provides the foundation for secure, scalable, and regulation-ready blockchain solutions.
$DUSK

@Dusk is evolving into a three‑layer modular stack that cuts integration costs and timelines while preserving the privacy and regulatory advantages that set the network apart. The new architecture slots a consensus/data‑availability/settlement layer (DuskDS) beneath an EVM execution layer (DuskEVM) and a forthcoming privacy layer (DuskVM).
• Why the change?
✓ It accelerates application rollout.
✓ Integrations with wallets, bridges, exchanges, and service providers are faster thanks to standard Ethereum tooling.
✓ Existing EVM dApps migrate with minimal code changes, eliminating bespoke work once required for native Dusk.
✓ Codebase becomes smaller, cheaper to maintain, and inherits proven EVM scalability from day one.
A single $DUSK token fuels all three layers, and a validator‑run native bridge moves value between them without wrapped assets or custodians. Because NPEX’s MTF, ECSP and Broker licences apply to the full stack, institutions can issue, trade, and settle real‑world assets under one regulatory umbrella, bringing compliant DeFi to market faster.
• Multilayer Architecture:
The multilayer architecture is achieved by integrating EIP-4844 (Proto-Danksharding) into Rusk, the implementation of Dusk node as well as adding a port of Optimism as EVM execution layer to settle on Dusk ledger. This brings the following benefits:

1. DuskDS: Data & Settlement Layer:
Handles consensus, staking, data availability, native bridge, and settlement. The MIPS-powered pre-verifier on the DuskDS node (i.e. Rusk) checks state transitions before they hit the chain, so there is no 7-day fault window like on Optimism.
2. DuskEVM: EVM Application Layer:
Runs standard Solidity contracts via familiar tools (Hardhat, MetaMask). It becomes the primary venue for DeFi and compliant apps, streamlining onboarding for developers, exchanges, and custodians. Moreover, it will also feature Homomorphic Encryption (HE) operations to enable auditable confidential transactions and obfuscated order books, ideal for regulated financial instruments.
3. DuskVM: Privacy Application Layer:
Executes complete privacy‑preserving applications using the Phoenix output‑based transaction model and Piecrust virtual machine (currently embedded in DuskDS but being extracted into DuskVM).
Development is led by Dusk’s internal team of expert engineers, in consultation with Lumos (the team that audited Kadcast), an external development organization we are collaborating with for faster rollout. Lumos is assisting with core runtime infrastructure, the DuskDS/DuskEVM bridge, and starter applications (staking, DEXs, etc.).
• Advantages:
✓ Operational Efficiency:
The modular design reduces overhead as each layer can be optimised for its specific role, making the system cheaper to maintain, easier to scale, and more secure.
✓ Faster Time to Market:
Custom integrations on a bespoke L1 can take 6-12 months and cost 50× more than EVM deployments. Exchanges, for example, spent months adapting to native Dusk, whereas EVM integrations can be completed in weeks.
✓ Plug‑and‑Play Compatibility & Interoperability:
The EVM Application Layer uses standard Ethereum tooling and removes the need for custom explorers or proprietary wallets. External EVM dApps can migrate to Dusk and bring their user base while gaining native compliance, access to regulated tokenised assets, privacy‑preserving infrastructure, and a fully licensed environment.
✓ Controlled State Growth:
DuskDS stores only succinct validity proofs; execution‑heavy state lives on the application layers, keeping full‑node hardware requirements low.
• Token & Native Bridge:
DUSK remains the sole native token with the following roles:
✓ DuskDS DUSK: staking, governance, settlement
✓ DuskEVM DUSK: gas for Solidity dApps and transaction fees
✓ DuskVM DUSK: gas for full privacy-preserving applications
DUSK on the DuskEVM will become the standard for exchanges and users. The trustless native bridge enables seamless transfers between the EVM and the DuskDS.
ERC20 and BEP20 DUSK will also be migrated to DuskEVM. The bridge between the DuskDS and DuskEVM is native and trustless, no external custodians or wrapped assets required.
Validators and full nodes simply run the new release. No action is required from stakers, and all balances remain intact while instantly gaining DuskEVM compatibility.
• Benefits for Institutions;
With this setup, Dusk can onboard assets from regulated venues like NPEX, 21X, and other asset managers, while offering developers plug-and-play infrastructure.
Institutions benefit from:
✓ A licensed environment (via NPEX) for custody, issuance, and trading
✓ One‑time KYC across all apps on Dusk
✓ Composability across apps using the same licensed assets
This makes #Dusk the only network offering privacy, composability, and compliance. All under one complete license umbrella.

Data powers everything; from our fitness trackers to the ads we see online. But have you ever think that who really controls it? Most of us never question where the data behind our newsfeeds, AI responses, and search results comes from. We simply trust it, assuming someone, somewhere is making sure it's accurate and unbiased.
But the reality is this data isn't always trustworthy or validated. Its origin remains hidden, especially in the case of AI training data, and we have no control over how it's used or who profits from it.
Right now, we have no choice but to trust centralized systems and black box processes. If we want to use these services, we must hand over control. There is no alternative - until now.
• Walrus does it differently:
On Walrus, no single entity controls where your data lives or who can access it. Your data is split up and stored across multiple independent nodes, so there’s no single point of failure. And thanks to access control provided by Seal, developers can build apps that integrate programmable data access - so you can make sure some things stay private.
But building a decentralized storage network is one thing. Keeping it decentralized as it grows is another challenge entirely.
• Solving the Paradox of Scalability:
Unfortunately, trying to achieve scalability can quietly centralize a network. Growth means you need more nodes, so nodes scale and accumulate more stake, and suddenly they have more impact on the network’s operations.
Networks don't stay decentralized on their own: it takes intentional design. Walrus was built to resist that natural tug towards centralization as it grows.
Here’s how:

1. Spreading out power:
Token holders delegate to independent storage nodes, which naturally spreads stake across multiple operators instead of concentrating it in a few giant entities. This prevents censorship by ensuring no one party controls what data gets added or removed.
2. Rewarding performance:
Nodes earn $WAL based on verifiable uptime and reliability, not on size or reputation. This means a smaller node that performs well can compete with the giants, which keeps the network decentralized.
3. Holding nodes accountable:
If nodes perform poorly or act dishonestly, they lose stake. This discourages power hoarding and makes it harder for any one node from attempting to centralize control.
4. Preventing power grabs:
Moving stake around quickly comes with penalties, which stops coordinated groups from gaming the system when it matters most; like during votes, attacks, or attempts to censor data.
5. Governing collectively:
Token holders control key parameters, so decision making stays distributed as participation grows.
• Resilience > false promises:
Decentralization is more than an ideology. It’s about building a system that is fundamentally different from what came before it – a truly distributed network that can withstand attacks, outages, and censorship.
This ethos is baked into Walrus from the ground up. By rewarding honest performance, we’ve created a system where staying decentralized makes good, economic sense, for both nodes and customers. As an organization, @Walrus 🦭/acc is committed to a future built on decentralized data - one where you control your data, verify its origins, and ultimately get to decide who profits from it.
In the end, the question isn’t about why decentralization matters, since the answer is clear. It’s about whether the systems you build on today will still be decentralized tomorrow. With #Walrus , that answer will always be yes.

As a next-generation infrastructure provider, Nami Cloud delivers S3-compatible decentralized storage and a seamless gateway to the #Walrus ecosystem. The platform’s mission is to abstract away the complexity of Web3 infrastructure, allowing developers to migrate from AWS S3 or other cloud providers in minutes.
By offering high-performance storage that optimizes data accessibility across networks, reliable RPC services, and simplified tooling, Nami Cloud eliminates the friction developers often face when building decentralized applications. Developers can use Nami Cloud to simplify integration with Sui-based smart contracts and decentralized storage on Walrus, ensuring their apps can run smoothly with reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Challenge:
While building their gateway, the Nami Cloud team identified several critical infrastructure hurdles that prevent decentralized applications from achieving mainstream adoption. Developers are often forced to choose between the performance of centralized storage and the security of decentralized storage, creating architectural trade-offs. Integrating decentralized storage into applications can be complex, leading to unreliable performance and high latency that results in a poor user experience.
For many teams, the S3 API is already the backbone of their storage workflows. Yet most decentralized solutions break compatibility, forcing expensive reengineering. Without a plug-and-play S3 endpoint in Web3, adoption stalls — which is exactly the gap Nami Cloud fills.
Further, many existing RPC services act as bottlenecks, becoming slow and unreliable under the high transaction loads required by scalable applications. These challenges collectively slow down development and limit the potential of decentralized applications to compete with their Web2 counterparts.
• Solution:
Nami Cloud integrated the Walrus technology stack as its foundational layer to overcome these challenges. Walrus provides a Sui-native decentralized storage layer that’s fast, cost-efficient, and seamlessly integrated with Sui smart contracts. Builders can add Seal, a decentralized secrets management system, to offer encryption and onchain access policies for sensitive data, with access policies that are also Move smart contracts.
The native connection between Walrus and Sui removes the complexity and latency issues associated with generic storage solutions, allowing Sui-based apps built on Nami Cloud to effortlessly interact with data stored on Walrus. To solve the issue of unreliable network communication, Nami Cloud leverages Walrus RPC 2.0, ensuring faster and more dependable transaction processing and data retrieval.
Nami Cloud also integrated Seal’s robust encryption and onchain access control to offer privacy-preserving computation and encrypted storage, unlocking a new class of secure and confidential data for decentralized apps.
Walrus’s data layer is the perfect foundation for our S3-compatible, decentralized cloud platform. Together, it is making data management as fast, reliable, and easy to use as the leading cloud providers without sacrificing security or trustlessness.
• Why Walrus?
Nami Cloud chose Walrus because it offers a unified and deeply integrated infrastructure stack purpose-built for the Sui ecosystem. Unlike generic solutions that require complex workarounds, Walrus is designed to work seamlessly with Sui smart contracts, enabling true composability between the storage, RPC, and compute layers. Together, this native compatibility provides the low-latency performance and reliability developers need to power high-demand, next-generation applications.
Integrating Walrus as a decentralized data storage layer with Sui smart contracts supercharges development for Nami Cloud’s users, unlocking new abilities like:

• Onchain triggers for offchain data: Smart contracts can read, update, and verify data stored on Walrus in real-time.
• Dynamic decentralized application storage: Applications can programmatically store, retrieve, and manipulate user-generated content while keeping interactions verifiable onchain.
• Optimized infrastructure: By leveraging Walrus RPC 2.0 and Seal, Nami Cloud ensures faster, more reliable transaction processing and data retrieval compared to traditional RPCs.
Integrating Seal is also a game-changer for Nami Cloud and its users. Seal introduces privacy-preserving features that were previously difficult to implement, enabling developers to build applications with security and confidentiality at their core.
Building Sui-based apps together with Walrus and Seal unlocks new use cases for builders on Nami Cloud, like:
• Encrypted storage: Users can store sensitive data, such as credentials and private assets, with full encryption.
• Confidential smart contract execution: Onchain apps can process private user data without exposing it onchain, enabling use cases like private auctions and secure messaging.
• Privacy-preserving AI: AI models can be trained on encrypted user data without sacrificing confidentiality.
Powered by Walrus and encrypted with Seal, Nami Cloud is transforming storage from a passive data repository into an active, programmable layer, paving the way for a new generation of sophisticated, private, and performant apps on Sui.
@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL

@Walrus 🦭/acc is Mysten Labs’ decentralized storage protocol. Mysten Labs is the same team that’s behind the Sui Network. Walrus’ latest partnership is with io.net (IO). This is a decentralized computing network. Together, they offer an option to save and train AI models.
That’s with IO’s Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) platform that it builds on Walrus Protocol.
• Walrus Protocol and io.net Partnership:
The partnership between Walrus Protocol and io.net offers start-ups a unique option. Besides building AI models, they can also train and run them. That happens on IOs Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) platform. IO uses Walrus Protocol to store these custom AI models. All this is decentralized and not centralized, like traditional cloud models.

This has various advantages:
✓ Start-ups or AI devs don’t have to own their own hardware or set up a data center. That’s all done for them and available to them.
✓ Traditional centralized cloud models are more expensive than this decentralized option. A great example is the pay-per-use option. In other words, you only pay for the computing power and storage you actually use. This makes it more affordable for teams with small budgets.
✓ There’s no need to use pre-approved models. Devs can build their custom models.
✓ This decentralized option has less privacy risks. Data ownership is also much more clearly defined. A decentralized option is also censorship resistant. You control your data and model instead of Google or OpenAI.
Another advantage is when potential outages happen. In mid-June, Google experienced such an outage. AWS, Cloudflare, and Firebase were also down. As a result, big parts of the internet were down. However, Walrus Protocol stayed active and didn’t experience any downtime.
IO supplies the CPUs and GPUs. It offers well over 30k GPU, on demand. On the other hand, a big company like Apple struggles to find enough GPUs to scale its AI efforts effectively. But here is IO, offering their GPU, which is 70% cheaper as well.
• Which Models Will Work Well with This Partnership?
This partnership between Walrus Protocol and io.net works best with good quality models. However, they need to be lightweight enough for a full download. To assist you with this, you can use the IO Intelligence platform. This is a free-inference platform. Inference in AI is where the AI model takes new information and makes predictions or decisions with it. It currently offers access to over 30 free and open-source models. This should get you well on your way. Here are three examples, but there are more out there. So, make sure to DYOR (do your own research).
✓ Deepseek. IO Intelligence offers four different Deepseek versions that you can use. These are reasoning models that come with variations.
✓ Qwen. This also comes in various models. Qwen also offers language models.
✓ Llama. There are also various Llama models available.
IO Intelligence also offers Google products, like Gemma, or Microsoft’s phi models. These are mostly lightweight models, so you can fully download them. Take a look and find the model that suits you best.
What all this means for Walrus is that it is now a serious hub for decentralized AI activity.
• What Else is Up with Walrus Protocol ?
So, this partnership with io.net is exciting, but Walrus Protocol has more brewing. One of its biggest achievements is its actual usage by other protocols. Currently, already 145 projects call Walrus their storage home. New projects are finding their way to Walrus all the time. But this also led to Walrus currently being at 26.7% of capacity. Out of 4.16PB (petabyte), 1.11PB is already in use. The picture below shows this usage:

Seal is another project built by Mysten Labs. It is a decentralized secrets management service. In other words, it offers privacy. You can integrate it into Walrus, but also into other storage protocols. Private data for your storage solutions.

We can also add Nautilus to this equation. This is Sui’s framework to build oracles. So, let me explain. With Seal, you can store your data securely and with privacy on Walrus. Nautilus can fetch this data for you. It utilizes Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). These perform computations off-chain. However, verification is on-chain.
So, as we can see, Walrus Protocol keeps marching on. The new partnership with io.net opens new ways to save and train your own AI models. However, that’s not all. Walrus sees more and more projects joining. Currently, it hosts 145 projects that use 26.7% of its storage capacity.
To make full use of the Sui stack, we can also integrate Seal and Nautilus to Walrus. Respectively a privacy platform and for oracles.
#Walrus $WAL