The most impressive thing about the DUSK project is the team's dedication to hard work. The founders are a group of Dutch individuals with backgrounds primarily in cryptography and fintech, having previously worked in traditional financial institutions. They started their project in 2018, during the peak of the ICO boom, and managed to raise some funds, but afterwards, they hardly promoted it. Over the years, I have followed their GitHub, and the update frequency has been consistently steady. The mainnet was delayed once in 2021, which made the community a bit anxious, but later they explained the reason clearly: they wanted to optimize the privacy module further. As a result, after the mainnet launched in 2023, it has hardly encountered major issues, which is much better than many projects that rushed to launch. In the past six months, they have been working on three things: 1. Optimizing the speed of ZK proofs, and I've heard the new version can reduce generation time to under 1 second; 2. Launching a decentralized identity system called Dusk ID, which allows users to control the degree of disclosure of their data; 3. Discussing partnerships with several traditional financial institutions in Europe to pilot real-world asset tokenization. Although there hasn't been an official announcement, there are occasional leaks of information in the community. I particularly appreciate their low-key marketing style. The crypto space is currently very restless, with people easily pulling in influencers, posting memes, or rushing onto new exchanges. DUSK has done almost nothing in terms of marketing, surviving solely on its whitepaper and technical updates. However, because of this, the price has been stagnant; retail investors can't understand it, and institutions find the liquidity lacking. At the current valuation, it's practically a gift. Sometimes I wonder, if one day they suddenly announce a partnership with a major institution or get listed on Binance, wouldn't the price skyrocket tenfold overnight? But the team seems to be in no rush, continuing to do things their own way. Perhaps they are not aiming for short-term speculation but genuinely want to build an infrastructure that can last for ten years. Such projects are really rare these days. @Dusk #Dusk $DUSK