Setting aside price fluctuations, from a technological evolution perspective, Dusk has a very interesting role.

To give an analogy—most public chains are like competing to build the tallest skyscraper. Dusk, on the other hand, is building the underground infrastructure that truly keeps a city running. You can't see it normally, and it doesn't look as glamorous. But when a real financial flood hits, only this system can withstand it.

This is reflected in two fundamental differences. First, most public chains pursue a "speed race," while Dusk addresses the issue of "stability." In the real financial world, transaction speed has never been the top priority—the real deciding factors are security boundaries and regulatory friendliness. Second, it lies in the approach to privacy design.

Dusk uses zero-knowledge proofs(ZK) to make a clever trade-off. It is neither fully closed nor completely transparent but introduces a "conditional disclosure" mechanism. Imagine you are doing business with a partner—you need to prove you have sufficient funds but don't want to disclose asset details publicly. This simple business intuition is encoded into Dusk's code. On-chain interactions are no longer a binary choice of "completely naked" or "fully private," but have operational flexibility.

At the tokenomics level, DUSK's role is actually "computational resource allocation rights." It's not just used for paying transaction fees. As more compliant assets(RWA) require complex privacy verification on-chain, the demand for DUSK shifts into a genuine need for computational resources, rather than a speculative tool.

Projects like this share a common fate—they are often overwhelmed initially by meme coins and junk projects. The reason is straightforward: building trust at the foundational level requires high investment, long time cycles, and lacks short-term excitement. But from a different perspective: when regulation truly intervenes, or traditional giants are ready to bring trillions of capital into this market, will they choose a public chain full of speculation and gambling, or a professional network that has already integrated compliance frameworks and privacy protections into its core code?

Dusk is a representative of these "slow variables." It doesn't provide short-term gratification but lays the groundwork for long-term holding certainty.