The hype eventually settled down by the end of January 2026 as Dusk Mainnet did actually launch, giving it much publicity. The token dropped to an approximate of 0.14- 0.18 after a jump of about 0.30 mid- January. There are a lots of little merchants, who believe that it is just another sell-the-news game, but you cannot afford to overlook Dusk just at the moment, when you want to keep ahead of the game.
The deceleration of the price, and the technological pillar is becoming firmer. The January 7 launch hit a breaking point and since has had a series of successes a deal with Quantoz on EURQ, a MiCA-compliant stable token, and the addition of Chainlink CCIP to allow hopping between chains with Real -World Assets. These are not glitzy marketing gimmicks but the set of plumbing to propel the NPEX exchange much-needed tokenised securities upon the blockchain these are in excess of 300 million securities.
As is presently happening in the price market, short-range traders are becoming impatient, but long-term investors remain cool. Dusk is also constructing a controlled-finance walled garden, a slow-build, which may change fortunes of enormous sums of money as soon as it is connected together completely. It could be the final window of opportunity to be a cautious investor and ride the tech up the next years, as the boom was, before 2024, as this phase of calm between the tech upsurge and the cooled hype starts.