$DUSK SK price starts off the year in a tug-of-war. I'm holding a small position, not betting on FOMO, but because I believe Dusk has a real barrier in institutional-level privacy. During cross-border settlements, privacy doesn't lose its scrutiny, and when RWA is custodied, efficiency doesn't sacrifice security; even AI agents managing payments might choose it to balance demand. Perhaps some think the track is narrow, but I believe that focusing deep is better: not seeking to be all-powerful, but specializing in financial compliance pain points, leveraging old money onto the chain when implemented. After Chainlink's multi-chain support, interoperability is more stable, with one less barrier for institutional integration.

The progress of DuskTrade has made me flip through several pages of the roadmap. Partnering with the Netherlands' NPEX, the platform comes with MTF, brokerage, and ECSP licenses, directly targeting the tokenization of over 30 billion euros in securities on the chain. The waitlist became popular in January, and I'm in line, imagining corporate bonds or equity being split and circulated on the chain: the privacy switch is turned off by default, and when investors buy fractional assets, their holdings are not exposed; during tax time, compliance can be proven with a single click, and old assets turn from stagnant bank water into a vibrant spring on the chain, with liquidity exploding and pricing becoming more transparent. How much will corporate financing thresholds need to drop? The roadmap indicates DuskTrade will officially land in 2026, with Hedger supporting more RWA tools, shifting the ecosystem from technical validation to real business. This step is steady, yet has great impact.

Imaginative enterprises cross-border large-scale settlements, previously always worried about on-chain privacy leaks or compliance bottlenecks, now with Hedger activated, the funding path defaults to invisible, and during reviews, one-click proof of cleanliness, friction as minimal as having no extra steps. Speaking of which, I switched to Monero in my early years, that kind of fully anonymous chain, which was brought down by regulatory news, and I also tried the awkwardness of transparent chains. Now with Dusk's modular design, it feels like opening a side door for traditional finance—big institutions, do you dare to step in? The DuskEVM mainnet goes live on the second week of January, Solidity developers can directly deploy contracts, settlements fall on ZK L1, with latency as low as local debugging. This EVM-compatible route that doesn’t sacrifice privacy has received enthusiastic feedback from the developer community. I even wrote a small DeFi logic test myself, with transfer confirmation in sub-second levels, and audits are effortless.#dusk @Dusk