2026 marks a major move at the start of the year—Dusk Network's mainnet is officially live, with DuskTrade as a core application rapidly advancing. This is not just a slogan, but the first compliant platform under European regulatory framework to transfer over €300M+ in real securities onto the blockchain.

The partner behind this, NPEX, is a regulated exchange in the Netherlands, directly overseen by the AFM (Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets). It holds a full set of licenses including MTF multilateral trading facility, brokerage, ECSP crowdfunding services, and is also working on obtaining a DLT-TSS (Distributed Ledger Technology Trading Settlement System) license. The key point is—this is not "playing with licenses as a concept," but embedded compliance logic from the protocol layer: legitimate issuance at the time of issuance, regulated trading, instant settlement, and atomic delivery.

All assets under NPEX (over €300 million, covering SME bonds, money market funds, equity products, etc.) have now been tokenized and moved onto the Dusk chain. Users can directly complete issuance, subscription, secondary trading, and redemption within their wallets via the DuskTrade frontend—no middlemen skimming profits, lower fees, operating 24/7, cross-border without barriers. The old problems of traditional finance (T+2 settlement, exorbitant custody fees, liquidity fragmentation, layered intermediaries) are all solved by blockchain and zero-knowledge privacy.

Dusk's unique strength is the combination of "privacy + compliance." Zero-knowledge proofs at the core can protect transaction privacy while ensuring full verifiability from a regulatory perspective—this is a real necessity for financial applications. The technological moat is here, not just a hype for trading tokens.