There are always strange things in the crypto world: investors keep their eyes wide open chasing new projects, yet turn a blind eye to tools that have been refined in the shadows for years.

Take Dusk, for example. This public chain project, born in 2018, has gone through three full bull and bear cycles. Many projects from the same period have long disappeared or pivoted, but it has always been committed to privacy compliance. Looking at the industry context in 2026, this kind of persistence is particularly valuable.

Why mention this project? Because the logic of financial infrastructure has never been about speed, but about stability. The demands from institutions for underlying chains are ruthless: security first, compliance second, and cost third. $DUSK has spent eight years doing one thing—using technical means to integrate these three elements.

Its Confidential Security Token standard, a native privacy protocol, ensures that assets carry privacy and compliance attributes from the moment they are created. This is completely different from those later-added "privacy skins" patched onto layer two solutions.

Currently, the market's view of this project still lingers in the "old project" impression. But look at its GitHub commit frequency and listen to the voices in the tech community, and you'll find that this old tree is sprouting the most vigorous new branches. As the RWA track heats up, this kind of public chain with genuine compliance genes may be revalued.