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Plasma is a technology that is being used to improve Ethereum. Ethereum is a platform that people use to make transactions. It is like a book that keeps track of everything.
The problem is that Ethereum can get very slow. This is where Plasma comes in. Plasma is helping Ethereum to process transactions faster. This means that Ethereum can handle users and transactions.
So what is Plasma doing to help Ethereum scale? Plasma is using something called child chains. These child chains are like books that can process transactions on their own. This takes some of the pressure off of the Ethereum book.
Overall Plasma is very important, for Ethereum. It is helping Ethereum to grow and become more useful. Ethereum is a platform and Plasma is making it even better.
We all know how it feels. You try to do something on Ethereum and the fees for using the network, known as gas fees are really high. The gas fees are a problem. They are the reason why lots of people do not use Ethereum. This is the problem that the people at plasma are trying to fix. They want to make it easier for everyone to use Ethereum by dealing with the issue of high gas fees, on Ethereum.
So what is Plasma? Plasma is a way to build decentralized applications that a lot of people can use. It is like a helper for the Ethereum network. Plasma helps take some of the work, from the main Ethereum network so it can run more smoothly.
​The "Child Chain" Concept
The main idea of Plasma is really simple and great. Plasma makes blockchains, called child chains that are connected to the main Ethereum blockchain. This means that not every single transaction has to go through the network, which is slow and costs a lot. The Plasma child chains handle these transactions instead. The child chains are, like teams that work together with the main Ethereum blockchain.
This means that you can have thousands of transactions happening on a child chain and the main chain only needs to get involved to confirm the state of the child chain. The main chain does this to make sure everything is okay with the child chain. It is like having a side street that only reports back to the main highway every now and then. The child. The main chain work together, like this to make things run smoothly.

​Why This Matters for $XPL
Plasma is really helpful because it handles transactions off-chain. This means that Plasma makes transactions go a lot faster. The best part about Plasma is that it makes the fees a lot lower. This is very important for dApps that need to do a lot of transactions like games or decentralized exchanges that people use a lot. Plasma is a deal, for these kinds of dApps because they need to be fast and cheap to be useful.
To help the ecosystem grow we need to find ways to make using crypto as simple and affordable as sending an email. The crypto system needs to be easy to use and not too expensive. Plasma is an important part of making this happen so it is a project that is worth paying attention to as the Ethereum ecosystem keeps changing and getting better. We need to keep an eye, on Ethereum and see how it works with crypto.@Plasma

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In the blockchain world, "growth" is usually painful.
We have seen this happen times: a new network starts it is very fast and everyone likes it. Then a lot of people start using it more nodes are. The whole network slows down. The cost of using the network goes up a lot. It takes a long time to make transactions. This is what people call the Scalability Trilemma of a network the Scalability Trilemma is a problem, for networks.

When I looked at the Walrus Protocol papers I wanted to see if I could find any signs of this bottleneck. I took a look at the Walrus Protocol information and I specifically looked at Chart which is about the storage capacity of the Walrus Protocol, versus the committee size of the Walrus Protocol.
What I found does not follow the rules of crypto networks. The thing is, crypto networks usually work in a way but what I found is different. It breaks the rules of crypto networks.
​The Step-Ladder to Infinity
Most networks get slower when you add nodes. This is because every node needs to communicate with every node to agree on the data. For example think about ordering dinner for a group of people like one hundred people. It is going to take a lot than ordering dinner for just two people. The more nodes you have, in a network the slower it gets because every node has to talk to every node to agree on the network data.
Look at the chart. You will see that the line on the chart is orange and it goes up and, down a lot. It is mostly going up. The orange line is really jagged. It climbs upward.
This graph shows us how stuff we can store compared to the Committee Size, which is really the number of nodes that are, in charge.
The trend is really straightforward. The line is going up not down. When the committee gets bigger which means more nodes are joining the storage capacity gets bigger too. It does so in a very linear way. The storage capacity increases as the committee size grows and this increase is almost linear, which is what we see when more nodes join the committee.
No Diminishing Returns: Normally you will see a curve that gets flat after a while which means adding nodes does not really help anymore.. With Walrus that is not what happens. This means that the Walrus network can just keep getting bigger and bigger like its storage space's getting bigger by simply adding more people to the Walrus network.
So you want to know why this happens. This is something that people often wonder about. The thing is, this happens for a lot of reasons.
Sometimes it is because of the way thingsreTimes it is because of something that was done
The main point is that this happens and we have to deal with it. We have to figure out why this happens so we can do something about it. This is important because this happens a lot.
This is because of how Walrus deals with Sharding. Walrus does not make every single node store every file, which's not a good way to do things. What Walrus does is break down files into parts, which are, like mathematical pieces or what we call shards. When you add nodes to Walrus you get more places to put these shards of files. This makes things work better with Walrus and Sharding.
It is like adding bookshelves to a library. You do not make the librarian slower you just make the library capable of holding books. The library can hold a lot of books because of the bookshelves. The librarian can still do their job. Now they have more space for books in the library. The library is a place, for books because of the extra bookshelves.
​The Investor Takeaway
For a project that stores data in a way to be as good as something like Amazon S3 it has to be able to deal with a huge amount of data without failing. The information shows that Walrus is designed to grow with the number of people using it not have problems because of it. This means Walrus can handle a lot of data like petabytes without crashing. The data, is really important because it tells us that Walrus is made to work with a big user base.
​If they can maintain this linear growth on the mainnet, we aren't just looking at a "storage coin." We are looking at a protocol that could theoretically swallow the entire internet's data.
@Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL

We use the word Decentralized a lot when we talk about crypto. It is like a phrase that we think makes everything okay. We think that if something is, on the blockchain then it is safe and nobody can stop it or make it fail. We think Decentralized means that Decentralized things are protected from people trying to control them or shut them down.
But here is the thing that is hard to accept: If all the nodes that are supposed to be decentralized are actually located in one rich persons server farm are they really decentralized? What if Amazon Web Services or AWS for short has a problem and stops working and this affects half of the Decentralized Finance or DeFi for system. That is a big issue. If DeFi is relying on Amazon Web Services and Amazon Web Services is not working then DeFi is not working either. That is not what Decentralized Finance is supposed to be, about.
I wanted to look beyond what the people selling it were saying and really see what was going on with the Walrus testnet. The paper had maps that showed where the pieces of data which are called shards are actually located around the world and who is taking care of them.
The results are really interesting because they show that something is popular around the world.. There is one big problem that we need to discuss. This problem is that everything is controlled from one place, which's a big issue, with the results of the global reach of the global reach. We have to talk about this issue with the centralization of the reach.
The Map: A Global Footprint

First the good news. The chart that shows the Geo-distribution of shards, in the paper looks really good because it shows that the Geo-distribution of shards is spread out nicely.
We are not looking at a network that is run entirely out of Silicon Valley. The testnet is made up of one hundred and five storage nodes that are located across seventeen different countries. These countries include France and Thailand and Russia and Canada and the United States of America.
Europe is really heavy. If you look at the charts you can see that the eu-central and eu-west regions have a lot of shards now. These two regions, eu- eu-west are actually dominating when it comes to the number of shards.
The Power of "Unknown": It is interesting to note that around 220 shards are labeled as "unknown" because we do not have regional data about them. Normally when we do not know something in the technology world it is a thing.. When it comes to cryptocurrency the "unknown" is actually a good thing. This is probably because the "unknown" shards are used by people at home or by individuals who are running their equipment in places that are hard to track. The "unknown" shards are a part of the cryptocurrency network at a basic level, which is made up of lots of small parts like the "unknown" shards. The "unknown" is what makes the cryptocurrency network strong. The cryptocurrency network has unknown" parts, like the "unknown" shards, that are run by regular people, not just big companies.
The "Hetzner" Elephant in the Room
Now for the challenging part. Decentralization isn't just about different countries; it's about different hardware owners.

When I looked at the chart that shows how the shards are spread out among the companies that host them one thing really stood out to me. The "Distribution of shards by hosting providers" chart, has a huge orange bar all the way to the left. This big orange bar is really big. It makes everything else look small even the big companies, like AWS and Google Cloud.
That bar is, for Hetzner. The bar you see there is actually for Hetzner.
Hetzner is a popular hosting provider that is based in Germany. People like it because it is not too expensive. Hetzner is a favorite, among the people who run nodes because Hetzner gives them computers for a low price.. If you look at the chart you will see that Hetzner is hosting a really big part of the total network shards of the network. Hetzner has a lot of network shards. That is something to think about when it comes to Hetzner and the network.
Why This Matters
This is a problem for Web3. Walrus does not depend on Amazon or Google. It does depend on Hetzner a lot. If Hetzner decides they do not want protocols on their servers they can stop them. This would cause a big part of the Walrus network to stop working away. The Walrus network would be in trouble because it relies on Hetzner much. If something happens to Hetzner the Walrus network will have a problem. The Web3 and the Walrus network need to find a way to not depend on one provider, like Hetzner.
The information we have says that a lot of people are using "Self Hosted" which's what we really want. We want people to run nodes on their computers at home.. The problem is that right now we are relying too much on Hetzner. This is not a thing. We need to get people to use Self Hosted nodes so we are not depending so much on Hetzner. The Self Hosted nodes are very important, to us because they let people run things on their machines in their own homes.
For Walrus to become truly censorship resistant and unkillable, that "Hetzner" bar needs to shrink, and the "Self Hosted" bar needs to grow. The current setup is proof the tech works across borders, but the next step for the community is to diversify where we physically plug in these machines.
@Walrus 🦭/acc #walrus $WAL

Let us be honest, for a moment. Decentralized storage has always had one problem: it is really slow. Decentralized storage has always had this issue with speed.
We all really like the idea of Web3. The idea of Web3 is that we own our data we do not need someone in the middle and we can say what we want.. When we actually try to use Web3 it is not very good. It is, like using the internet a time ago. Nobody wants to wait a time just to see a picture or get some information from a JSON file. Web3 is supposed to be better. It is slow. We do not want to wait thirty seconds for something to load. Web3 needs to be faster if we are going to use it.
When the Walrus Protocol technical papers came out I did not just look at the information that was trying to get me to like it. I looked at the Walrus Protocol charts to see how well the Walrus Protocol works. I wanted to know about the Latency and Throughput data for the Walrus Protocol. I had one thing on my mind: is the Walrus Protocol something I can use or is it just like other slow vaults, for the Walrus Protocol?
I looked at the performance metrics like Figures 8, 9 and 10 from the whitepaper. The performance metrics are really surprising. Walrus performance metrics show that Walrus works differently when you are adding data to Walrus or when you are getting data, from Walrus.
The "Read" vs. "Write" Reality
If you take a look at the latency charts you will see a difference between reading, which is downloading and writing which is uploading. The difference, between reading and writing is really big when you look at the latency charts.
Reading is fast. Really fast.
The data shows that it takes little time to read something from Walrus even when the files are really big. For files that are less than 20MB it takes less than 15 seconds to read them and usually it is even faster. When the file size gets really big like 130MB it still does not take longer to read. This is an advantage. It means that once your data is stored on Walrus it is really fast to get it for your dApp or website so it feels quick. Walrus makes it easy to get your data. That is a good thing, for your dApp or website. The thing about this is that it works in a straightforward way. The Computer File scales linearly. This means that if the Computer File is bigger it takes a bit longer to do its thing. You do not have to worry about random massive delays, with the Computer File.
Writing is something that takes a lot of work. You really have to put in the time and effort to get it right. The thing, about writing is that it takes work to make it good.
On the flip side, writing data is consistently slower than reading it. And there is a very specific technical reason for this.
I took a look at the "Latency Breakdown" which's Figure 10 and it shows exactly where the time goes. The "Latency Breakdown" is really helpful. 50 Percent of the total time it takes to write something is not actually used to move the data. Instead the time is used for Metadata Operations and Blockchain Interaction, on the Blockchain. The "Latency Breakdown" makes it clear that Metadata Operations and Blockchain Interaction take up a lot of time.
Before Walrus stores your file it has to do a things. Walrus needs to make sure everything is ready. So what does Walrus have to do before it stores your file?
Walrus has to check the fileWalrus has to prepare the space for the file
Walrus stores your file after it does these things.
To keep your file safe you need to encode it. This means breaking it into lots of pieces called erasure-coded shards. This way no single computer has the file. This is what we mean by encoding it into erasure-coded shards.Check Status: Reserve space on the network.Publish PoA: Commit a "Proof of Availability" to the blockchain.
This thing called "fixed overhead" adds about 6 seconds to every time you upload something. It does not matter how big or small the file is. This is the price we pay for having security. Unlike Google Drive, which just puts your file on a server Walrus is doing something to make sure your file is really there before it is even done uploading. Walrus is like a checker that makes sure everything is okay with your file. This is what makes Walrus different, from Google Drive. The "fixed overhead" is what helps Walrus do this checking.
The Throughput Sweet Spot
Another interesting find in the evaluation is the Single Client Throughput.
The charts show a plateau, around 18 MB/s. This might not seem like a lot to a hardcore gamer because 18 MB/s is what they think is normal.. When we talk about decentralized networks the decentralized networks are actually working well because they can do 18 MB/s all the time and that is what we want from decentralized networks.
This limit is in place because the system has to talk to the storage nodes times. It has to do a check, with the blockchain to make sure the data is good. The paper says that this does not mean the whole network is slow. It means that one user can only do much at a time. This is done so the blockchain does not get many requests at once and get all jammed up. The blockchain has to be protected from getting spammed or congested.
My Conclusion?
The Walrus is not trying to be a drive that you keep on your desk. The Walrus is not trying to replace the state drive that is in your gaming computer. The Walrus is trying to be a place where you can store things from anywhere in the world and it will always be there the Walrus will not disappear or get destroyed it is, like a very strong vault.
The fact that it takes the amount of time to read files even when the files are really big shows that the team thought about how people would get the files. They know that for a dApp to be nice to use it needs to load. The team gave up a bit of speed when uploading files because they had to do a lot of complicated security work so that getting the files is still easy and fast. The team prioritized retrieval, for the dApp. That is why the download experience stays smooth, which is important for a dApp to feel good.
For a decentralized media platform or a news archive, this trade-off is perfect. The initial "upload wait" is a small price to pay for storage that is mathematically proven to be secure.

@Walrus 🦭/acc . #walrus $WAL

We often talk about the future of finance like it is something that will happen a time from now.. When you take a closer look at what Dusk is doing you start to understand that the future of finance is not about things like flying cars or robots. The future of finance is really about making things simpler. The future of finance is, about simplification.
The financial world is separated into two parts now. You have your crypto life, which includes things like DeFi and wallets and tokens and your real life, which includes things like stocks and bank accounts and transferring money. This system is not very good. It is clumsy and expensive and annoying. The people behind Dusk want to change this. They want to combine these two worlds into one system where the user, the person using it is the main focus. Dusk wants to make it easy for people to use both parts of their life together. The financial world will be a place where everything works well together. Dusk is trying to make this happen. The goal of Dusk is to make the financial world a better place, for the user, which's you.
This is what a real User-Centric Landscape is, about and this is how Dusk makes a User-Centric Landscape happen for the people who use it Dusk creates a User-Centric Landscape.
1. For Issuers: Tapping into the Global Ocean
When a company wants to issue a bond or a tokenized stock they have a big decision to make. The company has to choose between an options. Do they go with a platform that does not have a lot of people using it?. Do they use the traditional markets, which can be really slow for a digital bond or a tokenized stock. The company has to think about what to do, with their digital bond or tokenized stock.
When the sun goes down at dusk this thing called Dusk changes the game. It does this by offering liquidity that's available everywhere in the world and it is all brought together in one place. This means people have access, to a pool of Dusk liquidity.
Imagine you are fishing in a pond but now you have the chance to fish in the whole ocean. This is what it is like for people who issue things on Dusk. They can reach people over the world not just a small group. Dusk is made to follow the rules and keep things so it gets money from lots of places. Big institutions that were afraid to invest in cryptocurrency before are now interested and people who invest in DeFi can now access things, like houses and companies. This means that the people who issue things on Dusk can show their things to the world not just a small group of people.
I am looking at a cool digital art piece. It has a glowing ball in the middle called Dusk Liquidity. There are lots of lines of light coming into it from around. Some of these lines look like computer code, which's like the money of the internet also known as crypto. Other lines look like fashioned gold coins or paper money which is what people used before the internet also known as classic finance. All of these lines come together into the glowing Dusk Liquidity ball in the middle. The Dusk Liquidity ball gets brighter and brighter as all the lines of flow, into it. The Dusk Liquidity is really shining now.
2. For Institutions: Instant Speed, Zero Liability
The biggest problem that big banks and institutions face is not making money it is the responsibility of taking care of peoples assets. This is because holding onto peoples assets is very risky and involves a lot of issues. Also the way traditional finance works behind the scenes is old fashioned. It can take a long time like several days for trades to be finalized this is called T+2 which means trades take two days to settle.
Dusk does a job of solving this problem with technology that seems like magic but it is really just advanced math, specifically something called Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Dusk uses Zero-Knowledge Proofs to make this work.
On Dusk institutions get to have clearance and settlement. This means that the moment a trade happens on Dusk it is done. There is no need to wait for two days for the paperwork to be cleared.
Dusk is really important because the technology on Dusk handles the compliance and verification. This is done on the chain. So institutions can facilitate trades on Dusk without having to worry about the burden of custodianship liabilities.
Institutions can offer the service on Dusk without having to hold the assets. This makes it leaner and faster and safer for institutions on Dusk.. This also means that institutions, on Dusk can charge lower fees to people who use Dusk.
3. For You: The "No Distinction" Reality
This is the most exciting part. In the Dusk ecosystem, the labels "Crypto User" and "Classic User" disappear.
If you want to buy Tesla stock you have to use an app like Robinhood. To buy Ethereum you need to use Binance or MetaMask.. If you want to lend money to get some yield you will have to go to Aave. The thing is, Tesla stock and Ethereum and all these other things are very fragmented. You have to use apps like Robinhood and Binance and MetaMask and Aave to do different things. This is because the system, for buying Tesla stock and Ethereum and lending money is fragmented.
In the world of Dusk things are really simple for users. Dusk is a place where everyone can get to all parts of the market. There is no difference in Dusk everyone has the access, to all market sectors of Dusk.
If you want to buy a government bond you should keep it in a place like your wallet, where you can find the government bond when you need it and keep track of your government bond.If you want to trade a crypto token it has to be, in the wallet. You need to have the crypto token in the wallet to make the trade.You want to use that bond as collateral, for a loan? You can do that fast right on the chain.
Dusk brings the protections of the regulated world to the speed of the crypto world. It creates a level playing field where a student in Mumbai and a hedge fund manager in New York are using the same infrastructure to access the same opportunities.

@Dusk #dusk $DUSK

We often talk about cryptocurrency as a revolution for the average person a way to take control of our own money. But there is another side to this story, one that involves trillions of dollars sitting on the sidelines.
The current financial landscape remains heavily "Institution Centric." The massive engines of global finance banks, asset managers, and issuers are eager to modernize. They see the efficiency of blockchain technology, but they are currently trapped in a high stakes standoff with the new technology. They aren't hesitating because they fear innovation; they are hesitating because the current infrastructure simply doesn't solve their fundamental problems.
Until these institutional roadblocks are removed, true economic inclusion remains just a nice idea. Dusk is building the precise tooling required to end this standoff.
The Headache for Issuers: Islands of Liquidity
Imagine trying to sell a rare painting, but you are only allowed to advertise it to people living on a single, small island. You might find a buyer, but you probably won't get the best price, and it might take forever.
This is the reality for major asset issuers today. When they issue financial products, they are suffering from fragmented liquidity. Their assets are trapped on specific platforms or within legacy systems that don't talk to one another. They cannot access a global, unified pool of investors on-chain. They are stuck selling on isolated "islands" rather than the global marketplace.
The Custody Trap
Perhaps the biggest hurdle for institutions is the issue of control and compliance. In the traditional world, institutions must retain custody of users’ assets. They don't do this just because they want control; they are legally required to do so to ensure every transaction is compliant, legitimate, and traceable.
The "wild west" nature of early crypto terrified compliance officers. If an institution can't prove exactly who owns what and that every transfer follows regulations, they cannot participate. They are currently forced to choose between staying compliant in slow, legacy systems or risking massive regulatory breaches on public blockchains.
The User Gap: A Tale of Two Worlds
This institutional gridlock creates a fractured experience for everyday users, splitting them into two camps with incomplete tools:
The Classic User: They have access to real-world assets (stocks, bonds) through traditional brokers, but their world is rigid. They cannot "compose" services for example, easily using their stock portfolio as collateral for a nearly instant loan on a DeFi platform.The Crypto Native: They have incredible speed and composability in DeFi, but they are mostly trading volatile digital tokens. They lack seamless access to stable, asset-backed tokens representing real-world value.
The Dusk Solution: Connecting the Silos Safely
Dusk is designed specifically to solve this institutional puzzle. It isn't just another blockchain; it is a purpose built layer designed to satisfy the strict requirements of classic finance while unlocking the power of decentralized networks.
By utilizing privacy-first technology (Zero-Knowledge Proofs), Dusk solves the custody trap. It allows institutions to verify compliance and legitimacy cryptographically without needing to hoard the assets centrally or expose sensitive data. This frees them to tap into global liquidity without breaking the rules.
Dusk is the infrastructure that lets the "old world" and "new world" finally speak the same language.

@Dusk #dusk $DUSK

The global financial system has been like a closed off area for a long time. Inside this area big institutions and rich people can invest in things that make a lot of money like buildings, private companies, new businesses and special kinds of loans.. Most people in the world are outside this area and they can only use simple bank accounts and buy stocks that are available to everyone but the value of these stocks can go up and down a lot. The global financial system is still like this with the same people and institutions having access to things, like real estate and private equity while everyone else is left with basic options.
This system, with two levels is not really mean spirited it is just that there are a lot of obstacles. The rules and regulations the cost of paperwork and the amount of money needed to get into time investments are just too much for the average person to handle. The average person cannot deal with these institution level assets because they are too complicated.
The mission of Dusk is to break down these barriers. Dusk wants to make changes to the economy and make it possible for anyone to have valuable financial assets in their digital wallet. To make this happen Dusk has to figure out a problem, with modern finance. The problem is that blockchain is transparent. Businesses need to keep some things private. Dusk is working to solve this problem so that Dusk can bring people and valuable financial assets together.
The Transparency Trap
When the blockchain technology first came out it said it would make things fair for everyone by being completely open. Every time someone uses Bitcoin or Ethereum the whole world can see what is happening. This was a deal for people who want to exchange money without needing someone in the middle.. For regular banking this openness is actually a big problem. The blockchain technology is still really good at helping people trust each other. It is not good for things that need to be private like regular banking, with the blockchain technology.
Imagine an investment bank that wants to turn a real estate portfolio into digital tokens. They cannot tell the world who is buying how much they are investing or the banks own secret plans for trading on a public record. The old way of doing finance requires that some things stay private to follow rules like the GDPR and to stay ahead of the competition. This is because estate portfolio and investment bank need to keep some information, about the real estate portfolio and the investment bank private.
The thing is, the blockchains that already exist do not provide privacy. So institutional assets have stayed away, from the blockchain. This means that economic inclusion is still something people hope for. It is not really happening.

The Dusk Difference: Privacy-First as a Necessity
This is where Dusk is really different, from projects that build infrastructure. Dusk thinks that privacy is not something that is nice to have it is something that you must have if you want to bring real things like real-world assets onto a blockchain. Dusk believes that real-world assets need privacy to work properly on a blockchain.
Dusk is holding the torch as the technology that really cares about keeping your information private and it was designed to connect the old way of doing finance with the new decentralized world. Dusk uses strong secret codes, like Zero-Knowledge Proofs to make something totally new possible: following the rules without giving up any of your secrets. Dusk is about finding a balance, between classic finance and the decentralized world and Dusk does this by using advanced cryptography, which is a big part of what Dusk is.
Dusks technology is really useful because it helps people show that a transaction is legal and follows all the rules. It checks that everyone involved is who they say they are and that the things being traded are real. The best part is that it does all of this without making any secret information public. So Dusks technology makes the regulators happy because it follows the rules and it also makes the institutions happy because it keeps their secrets safe. Dusks technology does a job of taking care of both of these needs at the same time.

A Wallet Full of Opportunity
So what does this technical thing really mean for people, like you and me?
The future of your wallet is not just about having cryptocurrency. It is about having the digital wallet hold a part of something like a downtown skyscraper. This can be a fraction of the skyscraper. The digital wallet can also hold a piece of an energy bond. This green energy bond was not easy to buy. Now the digital wallet can hold shares in a company. This is before the company goes public and its shares are available to everyone. The digital wallet can hold these things. That is what the future is about, for the digital wallet.
By using privacy to automate compliance and lower the barriers to entry, Dusk is building the infrastructure where asset ownership is democratized. It’s not just about changing technology; it’s about leveling the economic playing field and ensuring that wealth creation tools are accessible to everyone, everywhere.
@Dusk #dusk $DUSK

In the world of cryptocurrency things can get really crazy. There are many loud voices telling us what to do. We often pay attention to the cryptocurrency tokens that everyone is talking about on Twitter. We like the projects that say we can make a lot of money quickly.. We enjoy the funny cryptocurrency memes.. While all of this is going on something big is happening behind the scenes with cryptocurrency. It is not flashy or trying to get our attention.. This change, in cryptocurrency might be the most important thing that has happened in the history of decentralized finance with cryptocurrency.
That revolution is Dusk.
To understand why Dusk is really important we have to face a fact about blockchain technology: everything being completely open and transparent is actually very bad for large companies, like Dusk. Dusk is a deal because big businesses do not like it when everyone can see what they are doing. This is why Dusk matters much.
The Transparency Trap
We really like the idea of a ledger. It is great that we can track a hackers wallet or see where the funds are moving.
It is not easy to explain this to a bank or a hedge fund or a government.
The idea of a ledger is something we love because we can see everything clearly.
Let us say you are a bank and you want to buy fifty million dollars worth of something. If you try to do this on a public blockchain like Ethereum or Solana everyone can see what you are doing with your money. The moment you start buying this thing, smart computers and other people who are also trying to make money will notice what you are doing. These people will then try to buy the thing before you can which makes the price go up before you can even finish buying it. This is called running a trade. It is a problem when you are trying to buy a lot of something on a public blockchain, like Ethereum or Solana.
In the style financial world a completely transparent blockchain is like playing poker with your cards facing up on the table. This is a bad idea. No serious player will ever want to join a game, like that because they will not be able to keep their plans secret. The traditional financial world and the transparent blockchain just do not go together.
The thing with Web3 is that it has a problem. This problem is called the "transparency trap". It is stopping a lot of money we are talking about trillions of dollars from getting involved with Web3. These institutions like how fast blockchain's but they also want to keep their things private like a bank vault keeps things private. They want the speed of blockchain. They need the privacy of a bank vault, for their Web3 dealings.
Enter Dusk: The "Dark Mode" for Money
Dusk is solving this paradox by building what I like to call the "Dark Mode" for finance. This "Dark Mode" for finance is really what Dusk is about. Dusk is trying to make things easier by creating this "Dark Mode" for finance that people can use. The "Dark Mode”, for finance that Dusk is building is going to be very helpful.
Dusk is different, from privacy coins that were made to hide bad things people do. Dusk is made for transactions that follow the rules. It uses a kind of cryptography called Zero-Knowledge Proofs to do something that seems really hard: Dusk lets you show that you are doing things the right way without actually showing what you are doing. Dusk uses Zero-Knowledge Proofs to make this work.
With Dusk an institution can prove that they have Dusk and that Dusk is something the institution has. The institution is showing that they have Dusk.
The institution has Dusk
This is how the institution proves they have Dusk
The institution is using Dusk to prove that Dusk is part of the institution. Dusk is important, to the institution. The institution wants to show that they have Dusk.
I have money to make this trade so I am good to go with the money I have, for this trade.I am a company that has been checked and approved I have done all the necessary checks to make sure I am following the rules, about money and identity which is often called Know Your Customer and Anti Money Laundering so you can trust that I am a verified legal entity.I have this asset. It belongs to me. The asset is mine.
This way people can do things without telling everyone who they're how much money they have or what they are doing with their money. It is a compromise. This gives the people in charge what they need to make sure everything is okay. It also gives companies the ability to keep their business private which is necessary for them to stay in business. The companies get to keep their trade secrets. That is important for them to survive.
Beyond the Hype: Real World Assets
We talk a lot about Real World Assets in this cycle. This is, about bringing things like stocks and bonds and real estate onto the blockchain.. You cannot just put a regulated stock on a blockchain that is not regulated. This is not. It is a big problem. Real World Assets are what we are talking about. We need to figure this out.
Dusk is one of the few layer-1 blockchains that is made to deal with things. The people at Dusk are not just writing code they are also getting licenses. The Dusk roadmap has plans to work directly with stock exchanges like the partnership Dusk has with NPEX, in the Netherlands. This will make it easy for traditional securities to become part of the crypto world. Dusk is making a pipeline for this to happen. Traditional securities can then flow easily into the Dusk crypto world.
This is what sets apart a project that wants to change the law and a project that wants to make the law work online. Dusk is making the rules that will let the stock market operate all day and all night with settlements happening away and it will do this without going against the law. The stock market will be able to run 24 hours a day 7 days a week thanks to Dusk. This is because Dusk is building the rails, for the stock market. The stock market will have settlement, which is a big deal and Dusk is making this happen.
Conclusion:
People are always thinking about what's going to happen right now.. Dusk is thinking about what is going to happen later on. They believe that one day everyone will need Dusk to keep their information private, not people who do not want the government to know what they are doing. Dusk thinks that privacy is going to be very important, for the world and that is what they are working towards.
Other projects are trying to get a piece of the money that regular people invest.. Dusk is doing something different. Dusk is building a system that will help big investors put their money in. This is a plan and it is what needs to happen. Some people call this the "Dark Mode" of money. When the old way of doing things stops working Dusk will be the one that is still going strong. Dusk will be like a light, in the dark when that happens.

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When we talk about companies using cryptocurrency there is a huge problem that nobody wants to discuss. We get excited when a large bank or investment company shows interest in blockchain technology.. We seldom ask the question, why cryptocurrency has not been widely used by these big companies, like the big banks or investment companies to move their huge amounts of money their billions of dollars into cryptocurrency yet. We need to think about why the big banks and investment companies the companies that use cryptocurrency are not using it to move their billions of dollars.
The reason is not the technology it is the privacy. This is where Dusk really shows how great Dusk is.
The "Glass House" Problem
Let us say we are an investment company called Whale Capital. We want to buy a lot of Apple stock. If we do this on a blockchain, like Ethereum everyone can see the address of our wallet. They can see how much Apple stock we are buying and when we are buying it. This means people can find out what Whale Capital is doing with Apple stock.
When you start to buy something the whole market notices it. People who like to run will get in on it they will drive the price up and you will pay a lot more for the thing than you wanted to pay for it. The market will see that you are buying. That is when the front-runners will jump in and drive the price of the thing up even more.
For an institution having a public ledger is like living in a house with glass walls. This house is very open. Do you really want the people who live near you to see everything you do? For example do you want them to watch you get dressed? The answer is no. This thing called " transparency" is actually a problem, for institutions that deal with serious finance not something that helps them. Institutions that handle finance do not need this kind of transparency. Serious finance requires a level of privacy and a completely public ledger does not provide that.
The Dusk Solution: Privacy Without Secrecy
People often get mixed up about this. When they hear the term "privacy coin" they think it is about doing something.. Dusk is changing that idea. Dusk is making privacy coins that follow the rules. Dusk is building what they call Compliance-Friendly Privacy. This means Dusk privacy coins are not about hiding things but about keeping peoples information safe and private in a way that's okay, with the law.
Dusk uses Zero-Knowledge Proofs or ZKPs for short to make a kind of privacy for people. This is like the windows you see on a fancy car, a limousine that helps keep what is inside private. Dusk and its Zero-Knowledge Proofs are really good, at doing this.
The Regulator, who is like a traffic cop can see that the car has been registered and that the driver actually has a license to drive the car. The Regulator is checking to make sure the car and the driver are okay to be, on the road. The car is. The driver has a license. The Competitors, which are the people on the street have no idea who's inside or what kind of deal the Competitors are talking about with the other people, in the meeting.
This is really important for institutions. They have things like Citadel and Dusk that help users show they have done the Know Your Customer checks. This means they can prove they are allowed to trade without telling everyone who they're what trades they have made. Dusk is a deal because it uses these protocols to keep people safe. With Dusk and protocols, like it users can do what they need to do without sharing their identity or their entire history of trades.
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
We have spent a lot of time creating blockchains that're really fast like Solana and Sui. We have also made blockchains that're very secure like Bitcoin and Ethereum.. Somehow we forgot to make blockchains that are private and still do what the law says, like private blockchains should.
Dusk is filling that space. This makes a place where companies and organizations can do their work without everyone seeing what they are doing. It is like turning a house with glass walls into a meeting room. Long as people are worried, about their privacy big investors will not get involved. Dusk is making it easy for these big investors to finally join in.

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In the world of cryptocurrency people often get worried when they hear the word regulation. We see lots of news stories about the SEC taking projects to court countries saying no to things and CEOs getting in trouble with the law. It is always cryptocurrency against the government. The word regulation makes people in the cryptocurrency world nervous. We think of cryptocurrency and the government as being, on sides.
Most projects try to avoid the rules.. Dusk is being really brave. It is going up to the rules. This is a thing that sets Dusk apart from other projects. The rules might actually be what makes Dusk stand out. Dusk is running toward the rules and this could be its biggest advantage.
The "Wild West" is Closing
For the ten years cryptocurrency has been like a wild and crazy place. People could start a cryptocurrency make big promises and then just disappear.. That time is coming to an end. Governments are starting to pay attention. The European Union has created something called MiCA, which's a set of rules for cryptocurrency companies. These rules tell cryptocurrency companies what they are allowed to do and what they are not allowed to do. Cryptocurrency is going to have to follow these rules from, on.
The United States based projects are really struggling now they do not know if they are a security or a commodity. On the hand Dusk is doing well in Europe specifically in Amsterdam. They are building things that fit with the laws that are coming out. Dusk is following these laws very closely.
The Home Field Advantage
Dusk is not trying to hack the system it is trying to become the system itself which's Dusk. Dusk wants to be the system, not just something that breaks into the system. The goal of Dusk is to take over and be the system.
Look at what Dusk's doing with NPEX, which is a stock exchange in the Netherlands. This is not something they are trying out to see how it works. Dusk is actually working with a stock exchange, in Europe that has rules it has to follow. NPEX is using Dusks technology to make assets into tokens.
This gives Dusk a kind of wall that protects Dusk from companies that want to compete with Dusk.
A random meme coin chain cannot tokenize estate in a legal way, in Europe. No. Can Dusk do it? Yes, because Dusk spent years getting all the licenses and building the technology to comply with the rules.
Real world assets, like houses and land need to have laws that everyone can follow. These laws should be fair and easy to understand. Real world assets are very important to people. We need laws to protect these real world assets. Without laws it is hard to know what is right and wrong when it comes to real world assets. Real world assets, such, as buildings and cars need laws to keep them safe.
People are talking about Real World Assets as the big thing. We want to be able to trade stocks and bonds and real estate on the internet.. The thing is, you cannot just turn a building into a digital token if you do not follow the rules of the country where that building is located. The rules of the computer system are important. The laws of the country are also important. Real World Assets are what everyone is excited, about. We need to figure out how to make them work with the law.
Dusk bridges this gap. They do this by being compliance. This means they want to be the option for people who have a lot of money in traditional assets and want to move to the blockchain. Dusk is trying to show that they are the choice, for people who have trillions of dollars and want to make this move.
In the year 2026 the projects that will still be around are not the ones that did something and got away with it. The projects that will still be around are the ones that made the rules. Dusk is the one holding the pen and writing these rules.

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