Layer1 public chain DUSK, established in 2018, has recently been gaining market attention. Its core competitiveness lies in deeply integrating privacy and compliance. This innovative approach has officially entered an acceleration phase.

Significant progress has been made on the technical front. In the second week of January, the DuskEVM mainnet is about to go live, with EVM compatibility allowing developers to directly deploy Solidity smart contracts, reducing the barriers to ecosystem development. Meanwhile, Hedger Alpha is already operational, utilizing a dual encryption scheme of zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption to achieve privacy and auditable transactions on EVM, a relatively rare technical combination in privacy public chains.

In terms of ecosystem partnerships, collaboration with the Dutch compliant exchange NPEX is noteworthy—NPEX holds multiple licenses including MTF and Broker. The DuskTrade project, derived from this partnership, plans to launch €300 million worth of tokenized securities by 2026, marking the official on-chainization of traditional financial assets. As of January, its list has been opened to the public.

Additionally, the integration of Chainlink has further strengthened technical credibility, with substantial progress in regulation, development, and ecosystem dimensions. Whether you are a player in the RWA track or interested in compliant privacy technologies, this project is worth following for its future developments.