In the competitive landscape of the cryptocurrency market in 2026, the performance of the DUSK project has indeed been somewhat unusual. The most straightforward data illustrating the issue: retail holdings have increased by 300% within a month, and the reasons behind such attention are nothing more than the combination of three factors—regulatory policy certainty, technological maturity, and the practical implementation of ecological applications.

Let's start with the institutional side. DuskTrade, as the core application of the ecosystem, has obtained the European Union financial license issued by NPEX, covering the entire chain of asset tokenization, trading, and clearing. What does this mean for traditional financial institutions? It means they can clearly know under which regulatory framework they are operating. Insiders reveal that two European asset management companies managing over 100 billion euros are already planning, intending to allocate about 5% of their funds to DuskTrade's tokenized asset pool. In other words, this could be a flow of new funds amounting to tens of billions of euros. Additionally, with the cooperation with Chainlink, off-chain financial data can be accurately synchronized on-chain, further alleviating institutional concerns about data reliability.

On the retail side, enthusiasm comes from something more tangible—profit. After the launch of DuskEVM mainnet, the first batch of migrated DeFi projects has performed well, with some lending protocols' locked-in volume exceeding 100 million euros. Ordinary users can participate in liquidity mining to earn a considerable amount of DUSK rewards. This positive feedback loop within the ecosystem often attracts more attention than any marketing copy.