I have read the new EU regulation on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering or terrorist financing: .
I read it all, cover to cover. Was super boring but useful to dispel all wrong info circulating on CT 👉🧵
Dusk's upcoming economic protocol has mind blowing implications:
By paying for their own gas costs, smart contracts can execute automatically when some events are triggered (e.g. price detected).
I call those Autocontracts - Smart Contracts 👏 Can 👏 Execute 👏 Autonomously👏
@XmanXai
@DuskFoundation
@Autholykos
The Dusk economic model is a set of features and mechanisms that allows developers to create value for services they offer through smart contracts.
These mechanisms include:
- Levying service fees
- Offsetting gas cost for users
- Optimizing gas payments (low gas period…
I'm incredibly proud to finally share what we've been working on at $DUSK and the significance of our commercial partnership with
@npex
, bringing to reality our vision of Regulated and Decentralized Finance:
👉 🧵
Dusk and NPEX are partnering to establish Europe’s first blockchain-powered security exchange! 💪
This is a huge step towards our vision of bringing
#RWAs
on-chain. We are incredibly excited to partner with
@npex
in this endeavour and cannot wait for the work we will do together…
The regulation
- does NOT ban privacy in crypto
- does NOT cap crypto transfers (it does cap cash transactions to €10,000, but not crypto)
- does NOT ban privacy in self-hosted wallets
- does NOT ban private txs among wallets
These headlines are misleading click-baits. They twist the truth about the recent EU regulation, making it seem more controversial than it actually is.
In reality, the rules simply relate to anti-money laundering steps for licensed entities acting as crypto-to-fiat gateway
This is the *exact* reason why the protocol best suited for RWA has:
1. Privacy
2. Explicit tx acceptance
3. Automated compliance in tx execution
At
@DuskFoundation
we encoded 1 in the core protocol, and encode d2 and 3 in
#Zedger
standard for tokenized securities (MIfid II)
🌪.
@BlackRock
’s new institutional crypto fund received 0.97 unsolicited ETH via Tornado Cash within hours of launching, potentially creating legal problems for the world’s largest asset manager.
✍️ by
@httpsageyd
🗒 via
@ArkhamIntel
🗞 Read more:
A present to all Dusk community. What a way to end the year!! Onward and upward, Mainnet is not far.
Next in line: ITN and the Economic Protocol.
Happy New Year fam!
$DUSK
The
#Dusk
Web Wallet and Rusk Node are shipped! 🎉
2 more
#mainnet
deliverables ticked off the list!
We have a fully customizable, in-browser
#ZKP
-friendly wallet and a node that can deliver privacy in a shared state 💪
Read the post for more:
I want to take a moment and thank the team for their work. They have been always grinding pretty hard, but the focus and the efforts that they are driving in the Dusk protocol, as we are nearing mainnet, is mind blowing.
🙏
@GCryptoBen
for the shout out!
#RWA
#BUIDL
#DUSK
Top 10
#BSC
Projects by Development Activity in the last 30 days
According to such fundamentals like development activity, there are lots of good projects with moderate market cap.
$AVAX $FLUX $DUSK $TWT $AXS $BIFI $ZIG $SAITO $TPT $MIM
📣 Announcing Dusk's Incentivized Testnet!
We are thrilled to announce the timeline and rewards for participating in our Incentivized Testnet (ITN)!
You can participate through staking and node running.
👉 Staking will go live on 1st Feb and we have 2.5M $DUSK set aside for…
I am very proud to finally unveil our partnership with
@ElrondNetwork
. I am most excited about pioneering our technology to serve as the privacy & compliance layer of choice for creating a scalable, secure, and borderless internet of money and smart assets
We are excited to announce that we will collaborate with
@ElrondNetwork
to enable compliant & private enterprise use-cases at an internet-scale. 💥 Full details, along with Elrond CEO
@beniaminmincu
& Dusk CTO
@Autholykos
’ thoughts, in our latest article:
After Testnet, some of your favorite neighborhood Dusketeers flew to Bordeaux for a week to work together on the last standing items of this first iteration of Testnet before the start of the release cycle program. Lots of code and lots of fun
@DuskFoundation
"I heard that also XYZ is tokenizing securities"
Lemme be more explicit.
There is currently NO other security exchange in the world
1. in a commercial agreement with a decentralized permission-less protocol
2. to have their issuance workflow and back-end completely overhauled…
Even the smallest crypto CEX is way more profitable and efficient than security exchanges in TradFi (not to mention DEXs, which have no costs whatsoever). The reason is their natural integration with blockchain (instead of CSDs and clearinghouses) which brings ease of issuance,…
This kind of speed is absolutely unprecedented and mind-blowing for any privacy-preserving protocol 🔥🔥🔥
This is the perfect conclusion to an incredibly successful ITN and we couldn't have done it without our amazing community who ran 8K+ nodes 💪💪💪
I am incredibly proud that PLONKup,
@DuskFoundation
's groundbreaking new proof system, has been published on IACR. PlonKup reconciles PLONK's succinctness, universality and performance with PLONKup's lookups approach to circuit size:
Soon $DUSK will have the utility of the DeFi ecosystems. We are in full preparation to onboard all popular
#DeFi
solutions and turn it into
#RegDeFi
#BSC
$BNB
#ecosystemgrowth
Let us know your favourite DeFi projects ⬇ ⬇
Just a small remainder that $Dusk engineered smart contracts and zero-knowledge stack around
#rustlang
and
#wasm
already in 2018, way before all other chains
@ussharmony
Please stop spreading misinformation.
According to MiCA the requirements are:
- CASP must be able to return funds to the address it sent.
- CASP must not directly engage with a privacy layer but implement the so-called travel rule.
A CASP is a Crypto Asset Service Provider.…
What's best than wrapping up this thread with the announcement of our partnership with
@ElrondNetwork
? An important step toward an interoperable RegDeFi where Dusk Network is the only choice for bringing privacy & compliance
Current market turmoil will but accelerate world’s transition towards regulated decentralized finance. Dusk is deeply committed to be the leading protocol to make such a transition happen. We are well capitalized to fully execute on our RegDeFi vision.
And we’re hiring.
To all
#web3
founders with project treasuries wiped out by
#FTX
.
@DuskFoundation
has a grant program that can maybe offer some relief and I will try to help personally as much as I can.
DMs are open, feel free to reach out.
Please retweet this and help me spread the voice
I can’t express how proud I am for releasing Testnet today! Thanks to the whole
@DuskFoundation
and our partners for these months of intense efforts. Proof of Blind Bid and SBA, the world’s first trustless zero-knowledge based Consensus is a reality
Incredibly proud to share that ITN is live and you can join us in running nodes!
This is a huge step towards mainnet, and we are making great progress on our roadmap.
Bonus - Exu is shipped in Dusk web wallet:
ITN starts now! 💪
ITN testnet is live and you can start setting up your nodes! 🔥
Join us to run nodes, test the network, and receive rewards with mainnet. It's going to be great few weeks and we can't wait to get started!
🔗 Instructions and details
I had a great time as guest lecturer for prof. Dion Bongaerts and his students at
@erasmusuni
today.
Once again I’m reminded of the amount of academic, institutional, and enterprise interest in blockchain that goes beyond the typical crypto casino that makes the news.…
Quoting
@Mels_Dusk
: I know this week has been highly turbulent in the entire crypto market, but we will continue our development of the Dusk Network ecosystem just like any other day
Historically, turmoil reposition markets toward valuing those who build
I got interviewed by
@Blockstercom
about the vision, tech and plans behind $Dusk, including how we use zero-knowledge and progress toward RegDeFi.
Find it here:
#ZKP
#blockster
#web3
Excited to talk Dusk to the awesome community of
@crypto_rand
. Looking forward to address questions about
#RWA
,
#ZKP
privacy, compliance and any other topics over decentralization
It is no secret that $Dusk runs on rust (and WASM).
@DuskFoundation
we are big fans of the lang and are very proud to be sponsoring the Rust Developer Meetup here. Tomorrow it'll be about
#rustlang
in Serverless architecture and on a Pi.
Even the smallest crypto CEX is way more profitable and efficient than security exchanges in TradFi (not to mention DEXs, which have no costs whatsoever). The reason is their natural integration with blockchain (instead of CSDs and clearinghouses) which brings ease of issuance,…
Moving forward, I am convinced that more and more VMs will rework their design to provide smart contracts with native access to ZK operations. And still, they will struggle to provide privacy. I am very bullish on Rusk
You've seen institutions getting bullish on tokenization.
Through the partnership with NPEX, Dusk becomes the first blockchain protocol capable of not only tokenizing assets, but position itself as the future infrastructure to provide a cost-less…
Been thinking about the bare minimum requirements for a "groundbreaking" blockchain project👇
💪It should work, and not have regular downtime
🌎 It should actually be decentralized
😇It should not be in the pocket of shady actors
Principles that we live by
@DuskFoundation
1/9
Delighted to join
@mcsqaurefi
's X Space for an in-depth discussion on
#privacy
in
#DeFi
and
#RWA
.
Looking forward to a thought-provoking session, sharing insights about integrating ZK cryptography in L1, and perhaps some Easter Eggs about
@DuskFoundation
's upcoming Mainnet 😱?!
Exciting News!
Join
@mcsquaredfi
's X Space on
#Privacy
& Security in
#DeFi
🎙️ Featured Speaker:
@Autholykos
Emanuele Francioni is non other than CEO & Co-founder of
@DuskFoundation
, with 20yrs in R&D, tech leadership & cryptography under his belt.
Emanuele is pioneering…
But the partnership with NPEX extends way beyond:
We are engaging together with the EU DLT Regime, where NPEX formally endorsed Dusk for obtaining the Trading and Settlement Systems (TSS) license and carry on settlement operations directly with our tech!
How to simultaneously suck up to an Orwellian nightmare while celebrating architectural flows as a desirable feature.
This smells to me like L1 capitulation:
Privacy? Nah, L2 will solve it
Scalability? Nah, L2 will solve it
Limited blockspace? Awesome bro, gas is the new oil!
The Worldcoin authority that submits zk proofs of eyeball scans spent $500k in gas over 40 days.
$4.5 million annual in gas fees.
Companies will need to hoard ETH the same way they hoard other essential commodities.
Ethereum blockspace is the new oil.
All this while harnessing the power of privacy-preserving smart contracts for automating dividend payments, voting, bond coupon payments, digital identity services, bulletin board transactions, digital service registry, and more.
It is just a matter of time before stock…
@georgethms1
@MinaProtocol
@AleoHQ
@penumbrazone
@mirprotocol
By all means feel free to ignore Dusk. I mean, why mention the team that created Poseidon hashing (used by practically all ZK projects, including Mina), Reinforced Concrete, the most popular rust PLONK implementation, the first VM with native ZK primitives and ZK-friendly DS etc
Dusk has all the components necessary: privacy, compliance to regulations, relationships, and more, to bring exchanges like NPEX on par with CEXs like Binance or Coinbase.
Was a lot of fun and. Very interesting to discuss $Dusk and the general state of crypto, securities, DeFi, and regulations. Thanks to
@insideinsight4
for having me in the podcast and looking forward to more of these sessions
Tech Lead
@Autholykos
jumped on a video call with Kyrill Krystallis, founder of Inside Insight, for a deep dive into the machinations of Dusk.
Emanuele shares his thoughts on the latest
#crypto
EU legislation,
#DeFi
, and more 👀
View the podcast ⤵
Zelbet (aka Reinforced Concrete) is even more of a game changer than I anticipated. After spearheading the field with Poseidon,
@DuskFoundation
is now the patron of the fastest and most likely secure ZK-friendly hashing to date
Good things take time. This was a long time in the making and I've personally had countless meetings with the NPEX team. They are a key partner to realize Dusk's ambition to be the decentralized, privacy-preserving, and programmable financial market infrastructure globally.
Dusk’s goal is to make classic finance (securities) open to all: SMEs, small investors and big institutions
We do this by replacing middlemen and custodians with smart contracts and cryptography
This includes eliminating privacy brokers
MiCA says nothing about privacy…
Ever since
#Dusk
was founded in 2017, we have always focused heavily on compliance.
#MiCA
is a big step towards a better future for Blockchain Technology in the EU, but the work has only just begun, together we can create a safe and compliant environment for
#blockchain
users.
Or… hear me out… get an MTF license, appease regulators rather then VCs, provide features not to be found in other L1s (i.e. native ZK operations and default confidentiality in smart contracts) and untap a market for your users 100x bigger than crypto: a protocol for securities
You can't penetrate this market saturation with some tech BS anymore. You either go the depraved VC route, or you're a memecoin. Those are the only two routes.
But in none of those routes will you ever ask me
"You think NewCoin XYZ is good?"
Because my answer won't matter.
1/ It's my honor to welcome Bas Kortenhoff to Dusk Network strategic advisory board! Forgive me the hype, but having someone with Bas' caliber & CV as director and VP of gigantic financial institutions is key to bring
#RegDeFi
to the right audience at Euroclear, Morgan Stanley..
@adamscochran
@Gotchi_chief
To put it in an even better perspective, only in EU, Dark Pools show DAILY volume of $2.45B. If you add to that the fact that NFT (royalty) security market is untapped, I’d say that there’s a LOT of potential for DUSK as the first privacy-oriented protocol designed for securities
1/ Succinct Attestation (SA) is the consensus algorithm of Dusk Network. It's a powerful algorithm that's often overlooked because of the hype around zero-knowledge, Digital Identities and compliance.
1/ Wrapping up last week; We’ve released our XSC v2, describing how the world will launch compliant security tokens on
@DuskFoundation
using privacy-preserving Smart Contracts. More specifically, we highlighted how anyone can benefit from on-chain privacy
To shed a bit of light on the massive opportunity offered by operating a licensed settlement platform, in 2022, Euroclear alone processed 304 million tx for a value amounting to €1,066 trillion and €35.6 trillion of assets under custody
That's it. This is the crypto-related TL;DR of this document. You can go check the sections for yourself.
All this was already known since MiCA, and now extended to the verticals outside crypto
Forever ago we moved from Bulletproofs to PlonK.
And now we are ready to start the Trusted Setup Ceremony. Enhancing
@ZCash
's legacy with our own contribution, we're ushering in a new era of privacy and financial freedom.
A true symbol of Dusk's commitment to our values and…
Care about
#privacy
and want to be part of
#Dusk
?
Join us for the Trusted Setup Ceremony and help promote security and privacy!
Get all the details here and contact
@HeinDauven
if you're ready to participate 💪
I don't often quote Steve Job, but this is quite spot on:
> The only way to do great work is to love what you do
I am wholeheartedly enamored with Dusk's mission, so I thought of sharing the love with you all:
Here's a TL;DR: 👇
It is since 2018 that
@DuskFoundation
has been prepping for this.
Citadel is THE technology to satisfy these requirements without any loss of privacy nor centralized control.
Wow. Here we go. It's on.
The U.S. Federal Government, via the Treasury Dept, is officially recommending stronger KYC/AML enforcement for DeFi.
They're even suggesting implementing KYC via zk-proofs, as I predicted.
1. The document is not strictly related to crypto but also encompasses various verticals at higher risk of ML: gambling, football, (mortgage) credit intermediaries, high value goods trading, funds, etc
2. It mainly lays down requirements for the so-called obliged entities (OEs)
Too often we mistake the tool for the goal. Zero-knowledge cryptography is useless if it is not encased into a rigorous ecosystem that takes care of user privacy top to bottom. That is, when compliance to data protection regulation is just an afterthought
Sometimes, exceptional boost in performance comes from removing complexity, rather than adding it. We’re prepping an unplanned surprise that will shorten dev time, increase security and skyrocket performance of $DUSK
This is just a remainder that $Dusk has been working all these years on
#RegDefi
suite with the ability to issue regulated securities on-chain so to be able to provide users with access to real yield-producing assets
A Bitcoin ETF would remove the main utility of Bitcoin (financial sovereignty) while reeling it back into opaque custodian's vault.
An Ethereum ETF would be downright catastrophic for governance decentralization.
We should bring assets on chain, not the other way around!
PLONKup has been the result of over a year of investment & research by Dusk Network's R&D team, headed by Marta and
@luke_pearso
. And I obviously can't forget to mention the important contributions of
@la_UPC
,
@anomanetwork
, and
@UPFBarcelona
.
And in the epicenter of the turmoil you can finally find a glimpse of serenity brought by an almost clairvoyant moment.
#RegDeFi
|~>Proof of $ reserve
Reg =|
|~>Formally audited books
|~>No blocking withdrawal
DeFi=|
|~>No bankrun
no doubt the past couple of months have been bumpy, but we are now finally at the cusp of reality. Our public-facing journey starts today, setting the stage for a continuous release of all enhancements, fixes and improvements ferrying us to a feature-complete Dusk network.
Euronext leaving London for Brussels (due to the brilliant move that Brexit represented for UK) means that more than $100B worth of assets do now fall under the Mifid-II directive of EU for securitized assets. You know, the one Dusk automated through XSC
@ASvanevik
@TrustlessState
Investing, listing, clearing and trading tokenized securities can only be done with a EURO-denominated EMT or ART. MTF, crowdfunding platforms and other licensed entities are required by regulations to operate with € (or equivalent digital currency). $ stablecoins are useless…
Dusk Network solves blockchain confidentiality through the most advanced zero-knowldge tech applied to smart contracts. Now it's time to invite builders to gauge the full power of our privacy-friendly infrastructure. Ready to develop exciting new apps & business models? Apply!
🌍 Dusk Network’s $5.000.000 Grants Program is now open to applicants!
Its mission: help projects, devs, researchers, and academics drive mainstream adoption of blockchain technology & create the future of finance.
Applying is open to all ⤵️
Excited to share the news of our partnership with
@HuobiGlobal
, which marks an important milestone for Dusk Network.
This collaboration will bring greater accessibility of $DUSK to the Asian market and open up new opportunities for sharing the
#RegDeFi
gospel
Point (93) says that OEs
- cannot have anonymous accounts (duh)
- accounts cannot get crypto from anonymous sources
Simply put, accounts must be KYC’ed and the sender should be known.
This is in line with Binance’s recent RFC to ZCash, Firo and others.
Nothing new here.
@coinactuary
@adamscochran
@Gotchi_chief
Dusk was created as a protocol using ZK tech to reconcile permissionless-ness with compliance for regulated assets. Privacy + auditability are necessary for compliance. We just removed the need to trust a broker (we use provable encryption to prove tx auditability to verifiers)
What is Citadel and why does it matter? Citadel is a huge step forward not only for crypto but for SSI in an increasingly digitallized world.
The potential and need for Citadel are enormous: 👉 🧵
Bringing innovation to the forefront! Citadel is world’s first zero-knowledge protocol for digital identity. Its KYC implementation returns power back to users and streamlines compliance for any organization. A true game-changer in the world of SSI.
#ZeroKnowledge
#ZKP
#KYCAML
The OEs in crypto are the CASPs engaged in exchange services between crypto and fiat currencies and custodian wallet providers.
The emphasis of the doc is on (1) registration of the beneficial owner, (2) accounting practices and (3) due diligence practices for OEs.
This is why Dusk Network is picking up pace towards April. Ecosystem growth is a major part of our roadmap, so keep your eyes peeled for coming Monday 👀
1/ I cannot overstate how important the XSC token standard will be for blockchain & finance industries. Unlike ERC-20 or the notoriously incompliant ERC-1400, XSC is specific & compliant for tokenization of securities into security tokens; a massive up-and-coming industry segment
@pumpkinGMI
Well… you should see their faces when we mention that $DUSK provides transaction clearance&settlement for insignificant gas costs, and free depository service for their assets
1/ I cannot overstate how important the XSC token standard will be for blockchain & finance industries. Unlike ERC-20 or the notoriously incompliant ERC-1400, XSC is specific & compliant for tokenization of securities into security tokens; a massive up-and-coming industry segment
V2.0 of our Confidential Security Contract Standard (XSC) has been released! The XSC has regulatory compliance built-in, enabling it to rival the popularity of the ERC20 standard but for security tokens.
Here's to the future of security token issuance:
Dusk makes privacy & compliance sing in harmony with
#zeroknowledge
cryptography. Our private yet auditable transactions strike a perfect balance. Catch me today discussing this fascinating blend at the
#MiCA
panel. Shoutout to the Dusk team for their brilliant summary! 🚀…
Today is a good day for the whole community and team, and I have absolutely no doubt that there will be more and more days like today to celebrate the progress of our collective vision for a fairer, inclusive, and open finance, finally within the reach of everyone in our society
Article 58 says banks, financial companies, and crypto OEs can't have:
- Anonymous bank or payment accounts
- Anonymous books for recording transactions
- Anonymous safe-deposit boxes
- Anonymous crypto accounts
- Any account that hides the owner through anonymous transactions
@luigidemeo
@LordBogdanoff
@ExcelBaller
Dusk's approach is to encode regulations into a ZK-based transaction model with selective disclosure. This way, transaction validation reduces to a mere ZK-proof verification, thus segregating Provisioners from auditors.
At the moment we are focusing on Mifid II and complying…
Once again, all roads lead to self-custody and
#RegDeFi
.
Self-custody safeguards users from custodians misusing their funds, while Regulated DeFi provides the framework for crowd-sourced, decentralized investing.
The SVB situation, much like FTX, is …
While our keen focus is securitized assets, we are very aware that privacy is a requirement sorely missing in the industry. Therefore, Dusk Network has actively worked to provide existing tokens with a privacy wrapper and bring $DUSK enormous utility to the entire crypto space.
Happening in the EU.
Dusk is creating the next-gen
#RegDeFi
platform for financial apps.
Our play is to allow institutions to offload billions in infrastructure overhead to our global settlement layer, and pave the way for user’s self-custody
"The digitization of financial markets is irreversible"
How we envision the digitization of financial markets via Dusk Network:
✅ Challenges in the current system
✅ How Dusk solves these challenges
✅ Why the EU is positioned to lead the way
Identity management systems are unnecessary at best, and a global surveillance system at worse. Why should I tell my identity to a provider, if I could instead use a tool to prove I lawfully purchased its service? The tool is zero-knowledge cryptography and is already available
About
#TornadoCash
.
Now more than before it is useful to state that privacy is not and should not be counterposed to compliance!
The problem is purely technical, rather than legislative. /1
At
@DuskNetwork
we are pushing the boundaries of ZK cryptography, distributed computing and automated compliance, making it possible to truly disinter-mediate traditional finance.
@thisweekinrust
We are looking for senior
#rustlang
developers to join our Core team right now.