In the crypto space, most projects are like fireworks—brilliant for a moment and then gone. But Dusk Network is different; it’s more like a towering tree growing silently in the dark night, unassuming and unobtrusive, yet at this recent time point, beginning to reveal its true branches and leaves. From the moment the mainnet genesis block was on-chain on January 7, 2025, to now, exactly one year later, it has demonstrated what it means to "work quietly." There’s no overwhelming promotional blitz or coin airdrop celebrations, but the ecosystem is awakening at a steady and solid pace.

What has happened in this year? Dusk has not stayed in the experimental lab stage playing with tech demos; it has truly started to "add flesh." The DuskDS Layer-1 completed an upgrade in December 2025, achieving a qualitative leap in data availability and network stability, making high-frequency trading no longer a bottleneck. Then, in January 2026, the DuskEVM application layer was fully activated—developers writing contracts in Solidity only need to add a simple marker, and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) will automatically trigger protective mechanisms. Sensitive data such as transaction limits, position details, and business purposes? To ordinary nodes, they are completely black boxes, but when regulators need to audit, they can obtain the necessary proof materials through a dedicated channel. This is not some external plugin feature, but something embedded in the protocol’s core code.

Why is this direction so critical? Because the entire crypto industry is shifting from a "publicly known" to a "precisely controllable" transparent model. When large funds and institutions want to enter, their biggest concerns are nothing more than two things—data theft and compliance pitfalls. Dusk solves both problems simultaneously. Its designed "selective transparency" mechanism makes privacy the default state, and compliance verifiable. As the European MiCA regulatory framework is being implemented and deepened this year...