Many people focus on the ups and downs of token prices but haven't truly understood what Dusk Network is doing behind the scenes. The ambition of this project is significant—it aims to use cutting-edge cryptographic techniques like zero-knowledge proofs to protect privacy while bringing traditional financial assets such as stocks and bonds onto the blockchain. It sounds a bit sci-fi, but just think: if regulated assets can be digitized, how many intermediaries could be eliminated?

They are already taking action. The Citadel product is a compliance review tool that also offers subscription services. The key point is that DUSK's target customers are not retail crypto investors but genuine institutions—banks, brokerages, and major players. Once these traditional financial institutions adopt it, the DUSK token will have practical applications: it can be used to pay network fees and also to validate transactions and maintain network security through staking.

Of course, there is often a gap between concept and implementation. The project team holds a significant amount of tokens for development, and whether their roadmap can be completed on time—especially when the DuskEVM mainnet will go live and attract real-world applications—is the real test. Whether to invest boils down to betting on whether they can move from the "proof of concept" stage to "real-world application." Many seemingly revolutionary projects in history ultimately became worthless tokens; whether DUSK can avoid this fate depends on their execution capability.