Many on-chain projects treat their native tokens purely as fuel—that is, paying transaction fees. But Dusk has played a different game—DUSK is not just a payment tool, but embedded layer by layer into the entire network's operational logic.

From a governance perspective, staking DUSK is equivalent to gaining voting rights. This is especially attractive to institutional investors: they can influence whether the network adopts certain regional privacy audit modules or supports specific RWA asset standards through voting. In simple terms, DUSK grants holders real governance power, not just superficial voting rights. This rights attribute will rise in value as the ecosystem's decision-making weight increases.

Looking at the network operation layer: validators need to stake DUSK to maintain nodes, process privacy transactions, and earn rewards. Every privacy computation and compliant query requires DUSK to pay fees. Crucially, part of these fees will be burned, creating a deflationary effect when network activity is high. The more active the financial activities on the network, the more solid the underlying demand for DUSK—this is not just air, but real demand for usage.

Finally, at the ecosystem incentive level: Dusk has established a dedicated fund to support developers building compliant financial applications, such as privacy lending and KYC tools, with rewards usually paid in DUSK. This creates a positive cycle: more developers enter → more applications go live → more users are attracted → ecosystem prospers → token value rises accordingly. The entire mechanism is interconnected, making DUSK truly the circulatory blood of the entire ecosystem.