In 2026, it will be the largest fund concealed in crypto lights; it will be MEV (Maximal Extractable Value). In exchanges such as Ethereum or Solana, predatory bots identify institutional trade of significant size, and front-run it, assuming millions of dollars before the trade fades. It is the reason Wall Street has been careful not to go all the way on-chain- until Dusk.
The most important promising fact about Dusk is that it is the first Layer-1 chain not designed to resort to this predation. The fact that the Piecrust VM is privately running smart contracts means that it does not have a public mempool that bots can scan. A billion-dollar purchase order on Dusk appears just like a one-dollar purchase until it is closed.
That makes DeFi Dark-Pool a characteristic of traditional finance. Dusk secures the benefit of traders and institutions by keeping the intent of trade a secret. It transforms blockchain into the Dark Forest with all the predators in it to a regulated market where only supply and demand forces the prices and not the overseers watching it.
