In 2026, a new change is quietly taking place in the RWA track.

The launch of DuskTrade is not just a simple feature release, but a true handshake between traditional finance and blockchain. This platform is jointly developed by Dusk and the Dutch licensed exchange NPEX — the latter holds multiple EU financial licenses including MTF, Broker, ECSP, and others, making it almost impeccable in terms of regulation.

How does it work? The platform brings over €300 million worth of traditional securities onto the blockchain. What does this mean for qualified investors? Transparent trading, efficient settlement, and significantly reduced clearing and settlement costs. The key is Dusk Layer 1’s privacy design — transaction details are encrypted by default, but regulators can choose to disclose selectively when needed. In other words, it offers both privacy and compliance.

The newly launched DuskEVM opens another door. Developers can now build various applications around these tokenized assets — fixed income products, derivatives markets, lending protocols — all automatically inheriting the compliant privacy framework. This is not a minor patch; it’s a qualitative leap in ecosystem compatibility.

Looking back, since its founding in 2018, Dusk has always targeted the institutional finance track. The significance of this collaboration is: making the onboarding of traditional assets onto the chain no longer a high-cost, high-risk adventure, but a replicable and scalable standard process. Once this model is proven, how much potential does the global RWA market have?