As the crypto market becomes numb to Ethereum Layer 2's "tens of thousands of TPS" bombardment, few notice that Dusk Network, launched back in 2018, has taken a completely different path. It’s less like a front-end trader shouting buy and sell signals, and more like a behind-the-scenes clearinghouse wielding the power to decide life or death. In this financial infrastructure logic, Dusk isn’t obsessed with the speed of digital tickers, but rather with making the "delivery hammer" that determines asset ownership hit more steadily.

This obsession with "certainty" stems from an understanding of the essence of finance: for regulated exchanges like NPEX connected to DuskTrade, the number of transactions per second isn’t the key. The real focus is whether the assets traded within that second can be settled irreversibly in both legal and technical dimensions simultaneously. This is the core of Dusk’s underlying design—achieving 15-second finality through partitioned Byzantine agreement. These 15 seconds are not for show-off speed, but to eliminate the possibility of "rollbacks" entirely, allowing on-chain ledgers to directly align with legal delivery.

With the DuskEVM mainnet rollout in mid-January, this "clearinghouse" level capability finally opens its doors to ordinary developers via the EVM interface. Developers can invoke underlying privacy and compliance functions using Solidity contracts. Hedger technology acts like a one-way transparent glass—trade strategies remain confidential to peers, while fund flows are transparent to regulators, with neither side interfering.

Within this tightly integrated clearing system, DUSK tokens have their own role. They are not gambling chips, but rather "tolls" and "security deposits" paid to this decentralized clearinghouse. Every change in asset ownership, every privacy proof generated, consumes DUSK to power the consensus nodes. This rigid requirement directly correlates with asset scale—the larger the scale, the more rigid the demand.

Seeing through this layer and then looking at the market: the TPS bubble will eventually burst, because the ultimate arena of finance has never been about who runs fastest, but about who calculates correctly. Once the market realizes that Dusk holds not a calculator, but that decisive "delivery hammer," a true revaluation of its value will begin.