What I’ve been thinking about with @Dusk Network lately is how it’s starting to feel less theoretical and more real-time.

The mainnet rollout earlier this year was a pretty big moment, and you can actually see the effects around it. Trading activity picked up, derivatives interest spiked, and $DUSK stopped behaving like a completely forgotten small-cap. To me, that usually means people are reacting to execution, not just announcements.

What really matters though is why that interest is there. Dusk has been pushing forward with DuskEVM, which basically opens the door for Solidity developers to build privacy-aware applications without reinventing everything from scratch. That’s a practical move especially for teams working on regulated DeFi or tokenized securities that need confidentiality and auditability.

The flip side is obvious: this isn’t a fast-growth meme ecosystem. Institutions move slowly, regulation adds friction, and adoption takes patience. Price swings are still sharp, and sentiment can flip quickly.

But watching mainnet progress, developer tooling improve, and market activity line up at the same time makes #dusk feel like it’s finally entering the phase where real infrastructure starts to matter more than promises.