In this era of the great wave of public chains being sifted through, the number of projects that survive is decreasing. But truly daring projects—those that find a balance between protecting user privacy and meeting regulatory requirements—are few and far between. By 2026, Dusk, through 8 years of technological accumulation and modular architecture design, has finally solved this difficult problem.

If you're looking for long-term holdings, this January's Dusk is definitely worth spending time to research.

**1. Technological Iteration: DuskEVM is Coming, the Gap Between Privacy Chains and Mainstream Ecosystems Will Disappear**

There has always been a barrier between privacy chains and the current mainstream ecosystems. But DuskEVM mainnet is set to launch in the second week of January, which means this barrier will be effectively bridged.

Simply put, DuskEVM is an EVM-compatible application layer. This means that the millions of developers worldwide who write in Solidity can directly build applications on Dusk without changing their coding habits. What's the most impressive part? Business logic runs at the EVM layer, with final settlement on Dusk's native Layer 1. This approach retains development flexibility while inheriting financial-grade settlement security. In other words, the potential for compliant DeFi is suddenly opened up.

**2. Practical Application: DuskTrade's 300 Million Euros in Liquidity**

Whether an RWA protocol is successful or not depends on one metric: how much real assets it handles.