Issuance, trading and settlement on one chain
Traditional financial markets are built on separation. Assets are issued on one system, traded on another, and settled on a third. Each layer introduces intermediaries, delays, and reconciliation risk. Blockchain tokenization often preserves this structure, placing trading on-chain while keeping issuance and settlement dependent on external systems.
Dusk Foundation is designing Dusk Network to collapse this fragmentation. The network is built to support the full financial lifecycle on one coordinated protocol. Assets can be structured, issued, exchanged, and settled within the same environment, under rules aligned with regulated finance.
This changes the role of the blockchain. Instead of acting as a transaction layer around existing markets, Dusk becomes the market infrastructure itself. Issuers gain a native environment to create compliant instruments. Operators can structure confidential markets. Institutions can settle value without rebuilding financial logic off-chain.
By unifying these stages, Dusk reduces operational complexity and embeds financial continuity directly into the protocol.
Why this matters: capital markets do not need faster ledgers. They need unified ones.
Will future markets continue to rely on fragmented systems — or converge on single-chain financial infrastructures?
