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Năm 2026. Một tổ chức châu Âu muốn huy động vốn thông qua chứng khoán được mã hóa. Không phải như một trò PR—một phát hành thực sự với các nhà đầu tư thực, nghĩa vụ tuân thủ thực tế, và hậu quả thực sự nếu hệ thống gặp sự cố. Luật sư của họ đặt ra những câu hỏi hiển nhiên:
- Giao dịch diễn ra ở đâu?
- Tổ chức được quản lý là ai?
- Chúng ta xử lý KYC/AML, báo cáo và điều kiện nhà đầu tư như thế nào?
- Làm thế nào để bảo vệ dữ liệu giao dịch nhạy cảm?
- Làm thế nào để tích hợp với các công cụ hợp đồng thông minh hiện có mà không cần xây dựng lại toàn bộ hệ thống

Public blockchains are brilliant until you try to use them for anything that resembles real finance.
Because in real finance, the “transaction” isn’t just value moving. It’s strategy, inventory, timing, counterparties, risk exposure—basically a company’s bloodstream. Making that bloodstream public by default is like requiring every bank to post its internal ledger on a billboard downtown.
And yet, the industry has spent years acting surprised that institutions are cautious.
This is where Dusk’s approach gets genuinely interesting: instead of pitching privacy as an escape hatch, Dusk frames privacy as a compliance-aware capability—the kind you can deploy in regulated settings without sparking a legal bonfire.
The key word is compliant privacy, and the mechanism that ties it together (in the EVM environment) is Hedger.
The privacy dilemma everyone pretends isn’t there
Traditional EVM environments are transparent. That’s great for verification, terrible for:
- institutional trading
- private credit
- payroll
- treasury management
- security issuance
- any competitive strategy that depends on confidentiality
Meanwhile, privacy systems historically lean into full opacity—great for personal sovereignty, but difficult for regulated adoption.
So the real question for 2026 is not “Can we do privacy?”
It’s: Can we do privacy that still supports accountability?
Dusk’s answer is “yes,” using cryptographic techniques like zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption, built around the idea that transactions can be private and still auditable.
Think of it as “programmable glass”
Here’s the metaphor that makes it click:
Public chains are like a house made of clear glass. Everyone sees everything, all the time.
Old-school privacy chains are like a concrete bunker. Nobody sees anything, ever.
Dusk aims for programmable glass: opaque by default, transparent when it must be—and only to the right parties under the right conditions.
That concept is exactly what regulated markets require:
- users and institutions get confidentiality
- auditors get proofs
- regulators get lawful visibility pathways
the network still maintains integrity
Hedger: privacy-preserving, yet auditable EVM transactions
“Hedger” is positioned as the layer that enables privacy on EVM-compatible deployments. When people hear “privacy + EVM,” they often assume it means awkward constraints, developer pain, or slow cryptography that breaks UX.
But the direction here is more practical: DuskEVM lets standard Solidity contracts run while settling on Dusk Layer 1, and Hedger enables the privacy properties needed for regulated use cases.
The fact that Hedger Alpha is live matters because privacy isn’t a slide deck feature. Alpha means:
engineers can actually test flows
performance can be measured
developer experience can be evaluated
security assumptions can be reviewed in real environments
In other words: it’s entering the arena.
Why “auditable privacy” changes the kind of apps you can build
Let’s get specific. Auditable privacy unlocks entire classes of applications that are either impossible or strategically absurd on transparent ledgers.
1) Confidential DeFi for institutions
Institutions don’t want their positions, liquidation levels, or strategies broadcast. With compliant privacy, you can imagine:
private lending markets
confidential collateral management
protected liquidity provisioning
…while still allowing proof of solvency or risk constraints.
2) Tokenized securities that don’t leak the cap table
RWA enthusiasm often ignores a basic corporate reality: cap tables, allocations, and investor identities can be sensitive. Privacy with auditability allows tokenized securities to exist without turning corporate ownership into public metadata.
3) Regulated trading venues with credible compliance workflows
Which takes us to the other major catalyst: DuskTrade.
DuskTrade: the app that forces the stack to be real
In 2026, DuskTrade is positioned as Dusk’s first real-world asset application, built in collaboration with NPEX (a regulated Dutch exchange with MTF, Broker, and ECSP licenses). The intended scope—€300M+ in tokenized securities—signals that the platform is designed for real market activity, not sandbox demos.
Now connect that to privacy:
A compliant trading and investment platform isn’t just “a DEX with KYC.” It needs confidentiality for participants, but also robust reporting and oversight capabilities.
That’s where the Dusk approach looks coherent:
- DuskTrade as the regulated venue
- DuskEVM as the integration-friendly execution layer
- Hedger as the privacy + auditability engine
Also note: the waitlist opening in January suggests the onboarding pipeline is being staged—often the hardest part in regulated products.
DuskEVM: making integration boring (the best compliment)
If you want adoption, you need to remove friction. DuskEVM is positioned as Dusk’s EVM-compatible application layer, letting builders deploy Solidity contracts while settling on Dusk L1.
This matters because privacy systems often die on one hill: “Great tech, nobody wants to rebuild their world for it.”
DuskEVM is basically an off-ramp from that trap.
Mainnet timing is targeted for the second week of January, which implies this stack is moving from theory to deployment cadence—exactly what serious builders want.
What “expert-level” due diligence looks like here
If you want to evaluate this like a professional (not like a meme trader), focus on:
tooling maturity for DuskEVM (docs, RPC, explorer, indexers)privacy UX (how hard is it to integrate Hedger? what are the developer primitives?)compliance flows (selective disclosure, audit triggers, reporting)real partner execution (NPEX integration milestones, asset onboarding)security posture (audits, threat modeling, responsible disclosure culture)
The biggest tell will be whether the system makes regulated operations easier instead of merely possible.
If Dusk nails that, it won’t just be “a privacy chain.” It’ll be a financial infrastructure layer designed for the world that actually exists.
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If you’ve been into crypto long enough, you’ve seen the cycle: a shiny new chain, a hype-heavy narrative, a DeFi summer, a “regulatory crackdown,” and then a long winter where the serious builders quietly keep shipping. The difference in 2026 won’t be who can launch another DEX—it’ll be who can support regulated, privacy-aware capital markets without turning every user into a fully-doxxed open ledger entry. @Dusk $DUSK #Dusk " data-hashtag="#Dusk " class="tag">#Dusk
That’s why I’ve beenwatching Dusk since its early positioning as a Layer 1 designed for regulated finance. While most L1s built for “anyone, anything, anytime,” Dusk is building for a narrower—but much more lucrative—slice of reality: institutions, tokenized securities, and compliant DeFi. That’s not a limitation. It’s a design choice.
And in the next phase, three pieces matter most:
- DuskTrade (real-world assets, regulated rails, on-chain securities)
- DuskEVM (Solidity compatibility without retooling the world)
- Hedger (privacy that regulators can actually live with)
Let’s unpack what’s happening and why it’s more meaningful than the average “mainnet soon” tweet.
A different thesis: not “faster DeFi,” but “finance that can pass an audit”
The internet didn’t win because it was cool. It won because it became infrastructure—boring, reliable, interoperable, and eventually invisible. Regulated finance is similar. The winners won’t necessarily have the loudest community; they’ll have the cleanest integration path for institutions and the best answer to compliance questions.
Dusk’s thesis is basically this:
Financial activity needs privacy, but also needs accountability.
Not the “hide everything” kind of privacy—more like “share what’s necessary, when it’s necessary, with the right counterparties.”
That single premise changes how you build a chain, how you design apps, and how you onboard serious market participants.
DuskTrade in 2026: RWA, but with the part most projects skip—real regulation
Plenty of projects talk about RWAs like it’s a simple act of wrapping an asset and calling it “tokenized.” In reality, tokenized securities are not NFTs with better branding. The real hard part is the legal and market infrastructure.
That’s why DuskTrade is the big signal.
DuskTrade is positioned as Dusk’s first real-world asset application, built with NPEX, described as a regulated Dutch exchange with MTF, Broker, and ECSP licenses. That’s not just a logo partnership; those licenses matter because they map to the actual rails that securities markets run on.
The headline figure is even more telling: €300M+ in tokenized securities planned to come on-chain. That number isn’t interesting because “bigger is better.” It’s interesting because it suggests DuskTrade is being designed for real issuance and real trading, not a demo environment.
Also: the waitlist opening in January is an underrated milestone. Waitlists sound like marketing, but in regulated products they often indicate:
- onboarding workflows are ready,
- compliance processes are being staged,
- and the system is preparing for actual users, not just testnet tourists.
In other words, the product is moving from “announced” to “operational.”
DuskEVM in January: the shortest path from institutional intent to deployment
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: institutions won’t “learn a new stack” because your chain is philosophically pure. They move when the integration cost is low and the risk is manageable.
That’s why DuskEVM matters. It’s described as an EVM-compatible application layer where developers can deploy standard Solidity contracts while settling on Dusk’s Layer 1. Translation: you don’t need to reinvent your engineering team to build on Dusk.
This is where modular design becomes strategic rather than buzzwordy. Dusk can keep its Layer 1 optimized for regulated financial primitives while letting the EVM layer handle the massive developer ecosystem that already exists.
The timing is also sharp: DuskEVM mainnet is targeted for the second week of January. If you’re building for 2026, you’re not looking for “someday.” You’re looking for “this quarter.”
Hedger: compliant privacy is the missing layer of Web3 finance
Most chains treat privacy like a toggle: either everything is public, or you jump to a privacy chain that regulators don’t touch with a ten-foot pole.
Dusk’s angle is more pragmatic: privacy-preserving yet auditable transactions on EVM—using zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption, designed specifically for regulated financial use cases. This is the kind of sentence that sounds like a whitepaper flex until you realize what it enables:
- confidential balances and transaction details for users and institutions
- selective disclosure for compliance (auditors/regulators)
- a pathway to build products that aren’t immediately disqualified by the fact that everything is publicly traceable
“Hedger Alpha is live” is another clue that this isn’t theoretical. Alpha releases in this category are painful because they require tight cryptography, performance considerations, and UX that doesn’t collapse under complexity.
Why this combination is potent
Put the three pieces together and you get a coherent stack:
- DuskTrade gives a regulated venue and RWA pipeline
- DuskEVM brings the EVM dev world without forcing a rewrite
- Hedger enables privacy + auditability, which is the only form of privacy institutions can actually adopt
That’s a real “institutional on-chain” story—not a slogan.
What I’d watch next (signal > noise)
If you’re tracking Dusk like an operator instead of a speculator, here are clean signals:
Waitlist traction and onboarding clarity for DuskTrade
DuskEVM mainnet tooling quality (docs, debugging, indexers, RPC reliability)Hedger adoption patterns (which apps integrate first, and why)Compliance UX: how gracefully the system handles KYC/AML and audit workflowsAsset diversity: beyond a single category of tokenized securities
The most important part: Dusk is not trying to be everything. It’s trying to be the chain that regulated finance can use without pretending regulations don’t exist.
If that thesis plays out, the “boring” infrastructure narrative cpretending regulations don’t exist.
If that thesis plays out, the “boring” infrastructure narrative could become the loudest one of 2026.

@Dusk $DUSK #Dusk

@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #Walrus
Rất nhiều giao thức nói về "tính tương thích" như thể nó là một cây cầu có biểu tượng. Walrus coi tính tương thích là điều cơ bản hơn: dữ liệu phải tồn tại dù đã rời khỏi nguồn gốc ban đầu. Trong thế giới mà các ứng dụng trải rộng qua nhiều hệ sinh thái—EVM, Move, các hệ thống mô-đun, mạng con nhỏ, rollups—dữ liệu trở thành nền tảng chung. Và nếu nền tảng này mong manh, thì mọi ứng dụng đều trở nên mong manh. Walrus được thiết kế như một giao thức lưu trữ và khả năng sẵn sàng dữ liệu cho các khối dữ liệu, tập trung vào các tệp lớn không cấu trúc và đảm bảo chúng bền vững, có thể xác minh và truy cập được ngay cả khi mạng đang chịu áp lực.

@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #Walrus
Hầu hết các câu chuyện về token đều giống như sơn trên tường: rực rỡ, bóng bẩy nhưng không liên quan đến kết cấu của tòa nhà. Walrus khác biệt vì việc phân tách token chính là kết cấu. Dự án đặt cược lớn vào việc lưu trữ dữ liệu cần phải có thể lập trình, thực thi được và có thể hiểu được về mặt kinh tế trên hạ tầng phi tập trung, nhờ đó biến chính việc lưu trữ thành một lớp tài sản mà bạn có thể kiểm soát bên trong các hợp đồng thông minh. Đây là một quan điểm phù hợp với thời đại trí tuệ nhân tạo, khi các tập dữ liệu, nguồn gốc và nội dung có thể xác minh không còn là những nhiệm vụ phụ; chúng chính là sản phẩm cốt lõi.

@Walrus 🦭/acc $WAL #Walrus
Nếu các blockchain là tòa án của sự thật kỹ thuật số, thì dữ liệu chính là bằng chứng. Và Web3 đã tiến hành các phiên xét xử với bằng chứng được lưu trữ tại một tòa nhà sai: các máy chủ tập trung, các liên kết dễ hỏng và nội dung kiểu "tôi tin là đúng, bro". Walrus là một giải pháp trực tiếp cho một vấn đề tinh vi—lưu trữ và cung cấp các đối tượng nhị phân lớn (blobs) với các đảm bảo mạnh mẽ về tính toàn vẹn và khả năng sẵn sàng, mà không buộc mỗi_validator trên lớp 1 phải gánh vác toàn bộ trọng lượng của mọi tập tin. Walrus thực hiện điều này bằng cách chia các đối tượng nhị phân không cấu trúc thành các mảnh nhỏ hơn ("slivers") và phân phối chúng qua các nút lưu trữ, để dữ liệu ban đầu có thể được tái tạo ngay cả khi một phần lớn đã bị mất. Tài liệu dành cho nhà phát triển mô tả khả năng phục hồi ngay cả khi đến hai phần ba số mảnh bị mất, trong khi vẫn giữ tỷ lệ sao chép ở mức ~4x–5x.