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Slow work yields fine results, or is it just treading water? See through @Dusk 's "counterintuitive" evolution

Many brothers say Dusk "seems very slow"; indeed, it does not pull 50% of the tokens a day like those relying on narratives. But Xiao Feng wants to say: True financial infrastructure has always been first ignored, then relied upon.

🛠️ Technical ballast: Privacy by default, disclosure controllable

Most privacy chains are either fully anonymous (suffocated by regulation) or fully transparent (institutions dare not enter). @dusk_foundation takes the third path: privacy is the base color, but disclosure is adjustable. This determines that it is destined not to be a sentiment target for retail investors, but an institution's "compliance shell".

🧩 Developer experience: very "anti-Web3", but very "financial engineering"

Using Solidity as is, old tools still in play: The logic of DuskEVM is to allow developers to access privacy seamlessly.

Not developers serving privacy: but privacy actively adapting to existing financial development paradigms.

The game of slow variables: Its target users (financial institutions) do not chase trends or frequently make mistakes; they care about one thing: the long-term survival capability of the system under extreme regulation.

📈 Value snapshot and logical disassembly

$DUSK current price: between grinding the bottom and accumulating strength.

Core drive: not a story of price pumping, but the real "electricity cost" after billions of euros of securities assets are put on-chain, like NPEX.

Ticket effect: When the world truly needs private financial settlement, chains like Dusk that "understand things" will become the only digital safe haven for large funds.

💡 Xiao Feng's summary
Don't treat Dusk as a speculative target; consider it a **"regulation-acceptable privacy protocol"**. Its current lack of excitement is precisely because it is building those dirtiest, most exhausting, and highest-threshold compliance foundations. When the compliance tide fully erupts, you may not be able to react in time.

🤔 If you are an institutional leader, would you choose to trade millions of dollars in a "transparent glass house", or in a "private digital box"?

#dusk

📱 Say goodbye to the "small image" era! Vanar is igniting the asset revolution in spatial computing.

Are you still planning to view a flat JPG on the Apple Vision Pro? That's so outdated. With the era of spatial computing opening up, Web3 assets must "upgrade their dimensions."

🚀 Core Logic: From 2D collectibles to 3D immersive IP.

Vanar @Vanarchain is a severely underrated gene, actually hidden in its predecessor (Virtua). It is the "ancestor" that started with 3D and top IPs (like Godzilla and Transformers).

Upgrade of asset dimensions: On Vanar, NFTs are no longer pixel blocks but high-precision 3D models. You can directly “park” a virtual sports car that has been confirmed on-chain in your Vision Pro living room.

The “warehouse” of the spatial internet: Movie-quality 3D assets require massive rendering and interaction logic. Vanar is like a "decentralized spatial asset library"; the moment you put on the glasses, $VANRY is the fuel for that virtual world.

🧱 Developer perspective: Why do IP giants choose it?

Hollywood studios want to enter Web3, and it's not just to sell a few images. What they want is a world where fans can "walk in."

The Neutron semantic layer gives 3D assets interactivity—your digital dolls can react to your movements, which is the magic of AI combined with 3D assets.

Brand cost reduction: AI modules enable these giants to analyze fans' movements in the virtual world in real-time, achieving a commercial closed loop from "watching movies" to "living in movies."

💡 Little thoughts from Xiaofeng

Stop using the mindset of the "image era" to invest in projects of the "spatial era." Vanar is building a high-speed railway to the metaverse for top entertainment IPs. This time, it's not just about putting assets on-chain, but about giving life to assets.

$VANRY current price: steadily gaining momentum. Instead of betting on those ungrounded AI concepts, it's better to focus on this "alternative" L1 that has already successfully integrated IP and commercial logic.

🤔 Do you think the future of virtual assets is more about being "viewable" or being "interactive"?

#vanar

Merchants are afraid to accept stablecoins? Plasma @Plasma solves this 'last mile'

"I don’t not want to accept stablecoins, I am just afraid." This was the complaint of a cross-border e-commerce merchant recently shared with Xiaofeng. The reason is simple: during peak periods, gas fees are too high, confirmation times are unstable, and customers need to be taught how to buy native coins to pay transaction fees.

🧱 Breakthrough Point: Turning Stablecoins Back into 'Money'

#Plasma 's logic is very contrary to the 'Web3 narrative' because it does not discuss flashy features, only settlements.

Zero Gas Threshold: Customers transfer USDT, and there is no need for $XPL in the wallet. This 'gas-free' design directly reduces the new user churn rate by 90%.

Liquidity Depth: The on-chain stablecoin scale exceeds 1 billion dollars. The biggest fear in payments is shallow pools; Plasma has already completed a cold start on the 'money pool'.

Comparison with Tron: Many people compare it to Tron. Tron has the advantage of being cheap and easy to use, but Plasma excels in programmability and institutional governance. It is designed for stricter compliance regulations in 2026.

📉 Snapshot at the Transaction Level

Currently, $XPL is fluctuating around 0.09U. But I must remind everyone: do not use the infrastructure narrative to make 'minute-level chasing'. Its value lies in: as more cross-border trade and small payments start to default to Plasma settlements, $XPL as a network security token's staking demand will truly explode.

💡 Xiaofeng's Summary

Payments do not need imagination, only a closed loop: there is an entry (wallet), compliance (risk control), and speed (instant settlement). Plasma is moving in this direction. It is not competing with public chains; it is racing against the 'slow money' system of the old world.

🤔 Do you think it's reasonable to pay gas fees for stablecoin transfers?

#plasma

A blockchain that can 'remember' and 'understand' is the next stop for Web3 + AI

Yesterday, I called my credit card bank's customer service, and the 'smart voice assistant' on the other end drove me crazy for ten minutes.
I said 'change limit,' and it asked if I wanted to participate in a spending promotion;
I said 'check the bill,' and it told me to find a human.
It completely couldn't understand human language and couldn't remember the context.
After hanging up, I thought that many public chains are actually in this state.
Everyone is focused on TPS and performance metrics, but there are 'memory-less systems.'
Every interaction feels like the first meeting:
Re-signing
Re-authorizing
Re-confirming identity
The chain doesn't know who you are, nor what you have done, let alone understanding your behavior.
That's why, until today, Web3 still struggles to support real AI applications.
What AI needs is not 'speed,' but:
Context
Memory
Understandable data

It is precisely because of this that I began to pay continuous attention to @Vanar

Its direction is completely different from many L1s.
It’s not about continuing to roll TPS, nor competing in DeFi ecosystems, but attempting to integrate 'memory capability' directly into the structure of the chain.
The logic of myNeutron is essentially adding a 'long-term notebook' to the blockchain:
User behavior has context
Agent interactions have history
Assets are not just records, but carry semantics
This sounds very technical, but the practical scenarios are quite intuitive.

The true future of Web3 will definitely feel like using a familiar smart assistant:
It knows your habits
Remembers what you have done before
Can directly collaborate to complete tasks
This is the true form after the integration of AI + blockchain.
Many people like to buy 'popular chains,' looking at trends, narratives, and short-term emotions.
But infrastructure has never been the hottest yet is often the most valuable.
Just like houses—no matter how beautiful the soft decoration is, it can't compare to solid plumbing and electrical wiring.
#Vanar is actually doing this part of the 'invisible engineering': low-cost operation, understandable data, sustainable AI infrastructure.
Such projects may not be eye-catching in the short term, but once they enter the scaling stage, they are often the hardest to replace.
The significance of $VANRY lies not in how hot it is now, but in the fact that it is solving a longer-term issue: when Web3 begins to need to 'understand humans,' who is already prepared.

🤔 A very realistic question: Why has cryptocurrency been shouting for over a decade about "changing the world," yet we still cannot smoothly buy a cup of coffee costing a few bucks at the convenience store downstairs?
It's not that the technology is insufficient, but rather the cost structure is wrong.

On many mainstream public chains, a small payment utilizes a "high-value settlement system" behind it — Gas fluctuations, unstable confirmation times, and fees that may exceed the product itself. This architecture is inherently more suitable for large transfers, NFTs, and high-value DeFi rather than everyday consumption.

$XPL

But the real economic form in the real world is composed of countless "ant-level transactions": buying water, taking a taxi, charging, subscribing to content, in-game payments...
High frequency, low amount, continuously occurring.
These are the key entries for Web3 to scale up.

The idea of Plasma @Plasma is actually very "anti-narrative" — it doesn't continue to focus on TPS or ecosystems, but instead directly changes the "underlying logic of payment experience."

By designing with Paymaster and prioritizing stablecoins, it reduces transaction friction costs to nearly zero, allowing users to complete payments without needing to understand Gas or hold multiple tokens.
The changes brought are not in terms of performance but in terms of business:
Small payments finally make sense.
Service-oriented business models begin to take shape.
On-chain consumption shifts from "asset trading" to "real consumption."

When buying coffee, paying membership fees, and making payments for games on-chain makes economic sense, Web3 truly begins to approach "everyday life infrastructure."

Many people focus on large capital flows, but what really determines scale are these seemingly insignificant micropayments.
#Plasma is not competing for the market of "financial whales," but for the "life-level transaction entry" of billions of users in the future.
This path may not be sexy, but once it is successful, it is extremely sticky.

Dusk makes me re-understand: the real threshold of RWA is not the assets, but 'compliance synchronization'.

Recently, the narratives of RWA, privacy, and public chains are everywhere, and seeing too much can actually numb one.
However, Dusk @Dusk 's path is indeed different.
It does not simply move assets onto the chain,
but addresses a more fundamental issue:
Why is traditional finance so slow to go on-chain?
The answer is quite simple:
Data cannot be made public.
Compliance cannot be retrofitted.
Settlement must be certain.
Most public chains operate with:
On-chain transactions + Off-chain compliance + Post-audit.
This is almost unusable from an institutional perspective.
Dusk takes a different path:
Incorporating privacy, compliance, and consensus into L1 itself.
When a transaction occurs:
Compliance verification is synchronized and completed.
Consensus confirmation is synchronized and completed.
Settlement has legal effect simultaneously.
It is not 'explained after the transaction is completed', but 'the transaction itself is compliant'.
This is the structure that the financial system can accept.
Many projects treat privacy as a feature,
#Dusk treats privacy as default.
Phoenix protects transaction details,
Citadel does non-disclosure KYC/AML,
Hedger handles privacy assets,
ZK primitives are directly written into the protocol layer.
Regulators can still see what they need to see,
but the market cannot see what it should not see.
This is a very 'financial' design philosophy.
Its pace is slow, which is inevitable.
With NPEX's securities on-chain cooperation, EVM compatibility, institutional platforms, staking systems...
every step is not at the speed of Web3, but at the speed of the financial system.
You might feel it is not lively enough,
but what it is doing is something else:
Turning the chain into a 'settlement network acceptable to regulators'.
$DUSK 's token model is also very counter-intuitive:
Total supply of 1 billion
36 years of linear release
Annual inflation of about 1.4%
This almost naturally filters out short-term speculators.
$DUSK
But it ties value to:
RWA scale
Intensity of institutional use
Network settlement demand
More like 'infrastructure charging rights', rather than narrative assets.
Now, I only focus on two things regarding Dusk:
1) The final on-chain scale of securities assets
2) Changes in staking data after the mainnet
If these two things hold,
then it may not be the hottest chain,
but it will be the most 'used' kind of chain.
The market always speculates on concepts first,
institutions always enter the market last.
And what institutions need is not the fastest,
but the most stable and least risky system.

The earnings for the second week of $WLFI have been distributed

#usd1

🤔 A few friends asked me how to view the recent collaboration between the advertising company Alkimi and SUI?
Today let's chat about it. Most friends' first reaction is: "Advertising bidding, placement, and settlement are all on-chain." But if viewed from a developer's perspective, the real core of this story is not the settlement layer, but the data layer, which is #Walrus
The real problem in the advertising industry: it's not that "placement can't be done," but that the data volume is huge, results are difficult to verify, reports are inconsistent, settlements are slow, reconciliation is complex, and intermediaries take away a lot of value,
Advertising does not lack a "system," but lacks one:
👉 An infrastructure that allows everyone to work based on the same set of data.
This is precisely the position of Walrus @Walrus 🦭/acc in this system.

In this architecture:
Nautilus is responsible for private execution (bidding / placement logic)
Sui is responsible for verification and settlement
Seal is responsible for permissions and privacy
Walrus is responsible for "making all execution data exist, verifiable, and accessible."
This step is often underestimated, but it actually determines whether the system can be "truly on-chain."
$WAL
This is: a continuously occurring data flow
Large-scale logs
Placement records
Behavior feedback
Attribution results
If this data still resides in off-chain databases,
then the so-called "on-chain" is merely moving the settlement up.
The significance of Walrus is:
👉 To make the advertising execution data itself a verifiable on-chain asset.
The changes it brings are not technical details, but structural changes.
When data is bound to execution:
Advertisers see "real placement records"
Media see "real sources of revenue"
Both parties reconcile based on the same data
Settlement changes from "negotiation" to "automatic occurrence"
Advertising transforms for the first time from "trust-driven" to "results-driven."
Interestingly:
Walrus is essentially: any on-chain business infrastructure that requires high-frequency data, verifiable results, and long-term storage. Advertising is just the first typical scenario.
In the future, those who truly rely on Walrus are likely to be:
AI Agent behavior logs, data markets, on-chain game states, DePIN device data, enterprise-level business records
Because these systems have one thing in common: the data itself is an asset.
What Walrus attempts to solve is:
Recording real behavior
Storing real-world data
Making this data verifiable, callable, and reusable.

Sleep a bit later tonight, may have a surprise attack in the early morning

#alpha

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Rejecting 'Interface Hell', Dusk Forge v0.2 is unleashing the productivity of privacy contracts
#Dusk Current Price: Strong fluctuations, with a maximum increase of over 4 times in January.
Everyone is paying attention to the market's explosive growth, but Xiaofeng wants to talk about the 'infrastructure revolution' hidden in the code.
🛠️ Developer friend's complaint:
'In the past, writing Dusk WASM contracts, the biggest fear was not the logic, but the interface. The same interface has to be written four times in exports, wrappers, and JSON decoding! If one place is misaligned, debugging until dark.'

💡 Dusk Forge v0.2: Solving 'Interface Out of Control'
The release of Dusk Forge marks the transition of Dusk from 'functional' to 'mature infrastructure'. Its core idea is extremely restrained: Single Source of Truth.

👉 The hardcore evolution of Forge v0.2:
Auto-generation: Through macro definitions, automatically generate WASM exports, JSON Schema, and event encoding. Developers only need to focus on logic, no longer need to maintain redundant code.
Data-driven WASM: Automatically handles the conversion between JSON and rkyv. This means front-end wallets and browsers can directly 'consume' standardized interfaces, eliminating the need for guesswork.
Feature exposure: Interfaces can be exposed as reusable patterns, significantly reducing the maintenance costs of large DApps.

🧱 Why does developer experience determine token value?
An often-overlooked logic: Development efficiency = Ecological thickness = Token consumption.
When Dusk Forge lowers the development threshold and maintenance costs of privacy contracts, we will see more complex RWA derivatives (such as digital securities and commodity tokenization) emerge on Dusk.

💡 Xiaofeng's observation:
The current increase of $DUSK is a resonance between technological implementation (such as the zero-trust custody launch of NPEX) and capital restructuring (capital flowing from traditional privacy coins to compliant privacy coins).

High staking: Staking volume increased by over 30%, with significant lock-up effects.
Track windfall: The global RWA market has reached 19 billion USD, with Dusk occupying a high ground in European compliance.
Do not chase purely emotional hype; focus on projects that are solving 'engineering pain points'. Dusk @Dusk , which integrates privacy and compliance into the underlying framework, represents true hard logic.