If you want to understand the current ecosystem strategy of the Dusk Foundation, their Grant program is the most convincing. By reviewing the application guidelines and the list of already funded projects, you can see what gaps the foundation truly aims to fill.

Honestly, they no longer lack demos of private transfers—that kind of thing is everywhere. The foundation is now more focused on applications that highlight protocol features while also introducing external liquidity and users.

**The first direction is the link between RWA and traditional finance.** This is at the core of their narrative. The foundation particularly favors projects that achieve compliant privacy—such as private equity on-chain, bond platforms, real estate fund issuance and transfer systems. These are the kinds of projects they want. Not just simple tokenization, but comprehensive solutions that combine privacy auctions (Blind Bid) and auditability (Citadel Protocol). This requires project teams to be well-versed in legal frameworks off-chain and privacy technology on-chain.

**The second direction is developer tools and infrastructure.** Better SDKs, smart contract template libraries tailored for specific scenarios, optimized local development environments, and middleware connecting front-end and Dusk privacy features. The foundation understands clearly—without user-friendly tools, mainstream developers won't be attracted. Even the best public chain is useless without good tools.

**The third direction is institutional-grade DeFi.** They encourage the development of financial products that require complex privacy logic. Privacy-based credit lending, dark pool liquidity aggregators, compliant derivatives contracts—these applications can directly demonstrate the advantages of the Rushel proof system in handling complex logic.

In summary, Dusk’s grant approach is clear and pragmatic: either introduce assets and users from the traditional world, or improve developer experience to encourage building, or create complex financial applications that showcase technical depth. They are investing not just in code, but in a puzzle of ecosystem pieces aligned with the goal of building a "compliant privacy financial public chain." Every funding round points toward the same goal—making Dusk a public chain capable of handling real assets and real needs.