The first time I heard someone mention @Dusk the project had no traction at all; no one was discussing it, no one was shouting that it was the next hot spot. It was only mentioned in passing during a conversation about regulatory settlements. I glanced at the introduction of "institution-level privacy sovereignty L1" at that time and found it dull. Projects like this in the crypto space, deemed "boring," are often easily overlooked.

However, upon deeper reflection, I realized that this "boring" aspect, #Dusk , might actually be the core. After witnessing institutions hitting walls while probing public chains, I found that their bottlenecks were never about scalability or user experience, but about privacy—core information like transactions and holdings simply cannot be made public. Everyone is left to rely on additional databases and legal agreements, which are both fragile and costly, making privacy an exception rather than a standard.

Setting aside the label of a crypto project and viewing $DUSK K as a settlement infrastructure, its value becomes clear: it allows institutions to operate without hiding behind the foundational layer. However, infrastructure never relies on publicity; its success depends entirely on whether anyone is genuinely building applications and conducting settlements on top of it. I'm neither promoting nor criticizing; I'm