“Don't ask Dusk why it has only risen now. It has endured eight years of loneliness, outlasting all its competitors, just to wait for the winds to come.”
After studying @Dusk for so long, I realized that I shouldn't look at its past few years of lifeless K-lines and the delayed mainnet due to technological iterations. Instead, I should thoroughly study its persistence in every code submission over the past eight years in the dark, and why it is precisely in 2026 that it becomes its year of explosion.
Brothers, if you are an old player who entered the circle in 2017 or 2018, seeing Dusk's performance today, your feeling must not be ecstasy, but rather wanting to cry.
Really, only those who have traversed through bull and bear markets understand. What was 2018? That was the darkest moment when the ICO bubble burst, a hell where 'all coins went to zero.' Projects that started at the same time as Dusk included public chains, payment solutions, and IoT. Eight years have passed, and if you revisit CoinMarketCap, 99% of the names have turned into gray tombstones, and some can't even open their official websites.
But Dusk is still here. Not only is it alive, but it is thriving more than anyone else.
In these eight years, there have been too many temptations. DeFi Summer came, and everyone went mining; NFTs came, and everyone went trading images; GameFi came, and everyone went to gold farming; inscriptions came, and everyone went to typing. Many project teams couldn't stand the silence, transformed, chased trends, and ultimately self-destructed.
Only Dusk stubbornly clings to the line of **‘privacy + compliance’**. In an era where regulation was still a blank slate and everyone enjoyed running naked on-chain, Dusk’s persistence seemed so ridiculous and unnecessary. Some even mocked it as an 'antique,' a 'zombie chain.'
1. Why 2026? Because the wind has finally come.
However, time is fair. It will not shortchange any long-term believers.
Why will Dusk experience an explosion in January 2026? This is not a market manipulation; it is a historical inevitability.
Look at the current external environment. The EU's MiCA legislation has fully taken effect, and the global financial regulatory net has tightened. The previously rampant and non-compliant Web3 gameplay is no longer feasible. Privacy coins (such as XMR) have been forcibly delisted by major exchanges because they cannot pass anti-money laundering audits.
At this time, the market is horrified to discover: there is only one viable option left.
People suddenly realized that Dusk's eight-year layout of 'regulated privacy' is not an unnecessary design but the only ticket to the future. Dusk foresaw today’s outcome eight years ago—without compliance, there are no RWAs; without privacy, institutions will not enter the market.
It's like everyone is partying in the desert while Dusk is quietly building a ship. Everyone laughs at it, saying, 'Where's the water in the desert?' As a result, in 2026, the flood (regulation) comes. Everyone is drowned, and only Dusk's ark floats.
2. 90% surge: merely the prologue to value return.
Recently, Dusk surged 90% in a single day, and many new investors asked me, 'Master, has it risen too much? Should we run?'
I just want to say: Is this called much? You know nothing about the value of ‘eight years sharpening a sword.’
Look at those so-called L2s, with market values in the tens of billions of dollars, yet only a few thousand active users daily. Meanwhile, Dusk holds 300 million euros worth of assets from the NPEX exchange, is backed by a real economy, and has a fully self-developed Piecrust virtual machine and ZK tech stack.
The current price increase is merely a **‘sentiment repair’** for the extreme undervaluation over the past eight years. The market is paying tuition for its persistence. Real value discovery will have to wait until the mainnet is fully deployed, and until that 300 million euros in stocks and bonds truly starts running on the Dusk chain.
At that time, you will find that the current price is merely a thin needle at the bottom of the K-line chart.
3. Accumulation leads to explosion: code does not lie.
Many people question Dusk's slow development. Yes, it is slow. Because it did not copy Ethereum's code, nor did it fork any existing solutions.
Every brick and tile of it, from the bottom-level Blind Bid consensus to the intermediate-level Plonk zero-knowledge proof system, and finally to the application layer Citadel protocol, is original.
Do you know how difficult this is? It is equivalent to everyone else building with blocks, while Dusk is starting from refining cement and forging steel bars to build a building.
The deeper the foundation is laid, the higher the future building can be. Dusk is currently on the eve of completing its foundation, with the building about to break ground. The upcoming speed will silence all doubters.
4. A letter to believers: After the clouds clear, the moon appears.
Brothers, the hardest part of investing is not buying in, but accompanying.
If you were lucky enough to buy Dusk at a low price and are holding it now, give yourself a round of applause. Every penny you earn is a reward for your understanding and patience.
2026 is the year of Dusk and the year of RWA (real-world assets on-chain). We are about to witness the birth of a trillion-dollar new market on Dusk.
Do not easily give up your hard-earned chips. We must ride this train to the final stop.
