In just seven days, $DUSK has soared straight up from the $0.06 bottom range. As of January 17, 2026, the price has stabilized at $0.1073, with a nearly 65% surge in 24 hours and a weekly increase of over 80%. Trading volume has suddenly exploded from a few million dollars to over $73 million — this is not a typical market pump, but a concentrated release after six years of silence.

The story of Dusk Network began in 2018. From day one, the project has been pondering a question others avoid: how to protect privacy while allowing regulators to see clearly? While most projects on the market swing between pure anonymity and full transparency, Dusk chose the most practical path — using zk-proof technology to keep transaction contents confidential, while leaving a window for regulators to selectively disclose information. This logic resonated in the European market where MiCA is fully implemented. What institutional investors fear most is not privacy itself, but those "invisible risks."

The turning point came with the partnership with NPEX. As a licensed Dutch MTF exchange, NPEX manages over $300 million in assets. Their new plan is to gradually tokenize these assets, directly deploying them on the Dusk chain, from issuance and trading to settlement, with the entire process on-chain. What does this mean? Real on-chain trading volume, genuine gas consumption needs, and a platform with a unique identity — Europe’s first infrastructure for RWA that is both "regulation-friendly" and "privacy-strong."

The mainnet upgrade has been implemented, and DuskEVM compatibility accelerates ecosystem development. Community enthusiasm has surged into the top 7 in LunarCrush’s privacy coin rankings, with market sentiment extremely bullish. Technically, it has broken through the long-term downtrend line, with short-term support in the $0.095–$0.10 range.