Mainnet was launched in September 2024. Six years of building. And the majority is still unaware of the existence of Dusk.
That's about to change
The roadmap 2025 is not a list of possibilities and versions we are considerating. It's shipping product. Real features. Live integrations. The type of development that transforms infrastructure to ecosystems.
And the market yet no prices it.
Hyperstaking: Hyperstaking Smart Contracts
The following sentence is something that does not seem like a revolutionary statement until one reflects on it:
It is now possible to use smart contracts with custom logic to process stakes.
Hyperstaking became operational in mainnet. It is Account Abstraction to stake It implies you can programme your stake to do whatever you want it to do.
Private staking: Stake privately without showing your wallet balance. ZK-proofs confirm that you are of minimum without being broadcasted the amount. Institutions love this. They desire yielding yet competitors are unaware of their ranks.
Referral-based staking: Smart contracts which reward wallets by rewarding new stakers. Develop a staking pool with affiliate-based incentives. Growth through incentives rather than marketing.
Liquid staking derivatives: Turn on your DUSK and get a tokenized depiction, utilise in DeFi even as it keeps staking compensation. Nevertheless, composability without compromising yield.
Yield Boosting: Invest in several assets (DUSK + partner tokens) and receive more yields. Cross-protocol incentives automatically programmed into the staking contract.
This isn't theoretical. Hyperstaking is live. It is now available to build on.
The majority of chains are hard-coded. you earn, you unearn, you earn. That's it. Dusk turned staking into software. Means you can create any financial innovation you can imagine out of proof-of-stake and use Dusk.
Once DeFi has the flexibility on an infrastructure level, bizarre things will occur. Good strange.
Zedger: The Protocol Making RWA Tokenization Boring (In a Good Way).
Zedger Beta Dusk will be tokenizing its assets by Q1 2025.
At this point in time tokenization of a real-world asset is custom. Hire lawyers. Structure the SPV. Create your own smart contracts. Lobby regulatory requirements. One is an independent project in each asset.
Zedger standardizes it. Tokenization-as-a-service. You deliver the thing, Zedger does:
Different jurisdictions compliance templates.
KYC that doesn't involve privacy at Citadel.
Programmable legal contracts with regulatory authorizations.
Lifecycle administration (issue, trading, corporate operations)
Connexions with licenced partners (NPEX, custodians).
This offers tokenized asset Shopify. It does not require a blockchain developer to tokenize a real estate asset, bonds, or even equity. You use Zedger.
In the case of business, this eliminates the technical obstacle. To the developers, it offers building blocks that can be composed rather than reinventing the wheels.
Initially, the beta is started with NPEX, 21X and institutional partners with their assets moved onto the block. By mid-2025, Zedger will be dealing with billions of value tokenized.
That's not hype. It was a plan of that sort, named partners, subject to regulation.
Lightspeed: The EVM Layer 2 No One Intended.
Here's where it gets spicy. Dusk is starting EVM-compatible Layer 2 named Lightspeed.
And yet have we not already gone three articles discussing how Dusk is Layer 1 in regulated assets? Why build an L2?
Due to the lack of care over privacy in DeFi. It cares about speed.
Dusk Layer 1 is where the regulated assets are managed. Privacy. Compliance. Security. Those are not without a computational cost ZK-proofs. You are selling expediency at the expense of assurances.
Lightspeed belongs to all the others. DeFi protocols. Gaming. NFTs. Require EVM compatibility and high throughput Use cases Consider settling to Dusk to final state.
The genius? Assets that were issued on Dusk L1 (regulatory covered) will be able to be traded on Lightspeed and then be settled. Regulated issuance. DeFi liquidity. Compliant settlement.
It is the way you bridge the TradFi and DeFi and not lose either of them.
Etherium L2s are spreading liquidity on dozens of chains. Dusk is developing one L2 that intentionally should interface with its L1. Level I vertical integration.
Launch target: Q1 2025. Once it has become live, all Ethereum developers will be able to run on Lightspeed with no code modifications. Metamask works. Hardhat works. The tools are identical.
But you are also relaxing on the infrastructure that is institutional-grade security and compliance. That's differentiation.
