$DUSK is this blockchain project that's trying to solve a real problem: how do you put actual financial assets (like stocks, bonds, real estate tokens) on a blockchain while still following all those strict European financial regulations?
Here's the cool part - most blockchains are totally public, right? Everyone can see every transaction. But Dusk uses zero-knowledge proofs to give you privacy while STILL letting regulators verify that everything's legit when they need to. It's like having your cake and eating it too.
They started back in 2018 in Amsterdam with about €7 million in funding. The team figured out that if blockchain was ever going to work for real financial institutions, it needed three things:
Privacy - companies don't want their competitors seeing every trade
Compliance - banks can't use tech that breaks financial laws
Speed - nobody wants to wait 10 minutes for a transaction
The DUSK token is what runs the whole thing - you use it to pay fees, stake it to help secure the network, and vote on changes.
What's actually interesting is they're not just building vaporware - they've got real partnerships with regulated exchanges in Europe. They're betting big on the "real-world assets" trend where traditional finance is slowly moving onto blockchains.
