Dear Dusk Community,
As you can see in this round-up of the year’s developments, the progress made by our team has been nothing short of incredible, and our Testnet launch in February will be a testament to their hard work. But we couldn’t have gotten here without you, the community of Dusk supporters who see what we see: a need for privacy that is currently unprovided for within the financial systems.
Take a look back with us at 2021, and enjoy this special message from Founder & Tech Lead Emanuele Francioni:
With your support, Dusk Network will reach new heights of development and exposure in 2022; a transformative year for us. Please enjoy your holiday season and we’ll see you all in the new year!
The Developments of 2021 | From Start To Finish
Q1
- Partnership w/ Elrond to provide privacy layer
- Partnership w/ Ankr for node deployment
- Partnership w/ Harmony for ZK light clients
- Partnership expansion w/ LTO for digital share registry
- Partnership w/ Investor Ready for share tokenization
- Binance Smart Chain integration
- 1inch listing
- PancakeSwap listing
- Research & Development expansion: Errol & Marta
- New advisor: financial market expert Bas Kortenhoff
- New advisor: blockchain governance expert Andrej Zwitter
- Confidential Security Contract Standard (XSC) v2.0 release
- Whitepaper v3 release
- Governance Paper release
- Staking roles merged
- Dusk Portal launch
- Single Market Ecosystem: Article 1
- Single Market Ecosystem: Article 2
Q2
- Livestream of Dusk Conference 2021
- Binance post-DuskCon AMA
- Helios: Dusk Grants Program announcement
- Announcement of exclusive tech innovation Reinforced Concrete
- Yahoo Finance coverage
- Business Director Jelle Pol joins NPEX Council of Commissioners
- Announcement of incentivized Testnet
- First Biannual Report of 2021
- Partnership w/ Chainlink to provide privacy-features
Q3
- Release of the first Dusk Explained videos: Zero-Knowledge, Consensus Mechanism, the XSC, PLONK
- The Next Web Conference accepts DUSK as a payment method
- Jelle Pol joins TNW panel on the topic of Crypto Securities
- Bittrex Global listing
- Jelle Pol profiled by Het Financieele Dagblad (FD)
- Research & Development expansion: Moana & Eduardo
- Dusk Portal enables direct Helios Grants Program applications
- Limited edition Dusk Hoodies available
- Attending the Ethereum Community Conference
Q4
- Announcement of Testnet launch: February 1st, 2022
- New Testnet milestones published on GitHub
- Reinforced Concrete paper release
- Second Biannual Report of 2021
- Two beneficiaries of Helios Grants Program announced
- Presentation at World Ethereum Forum
- Presentation at RUST Developer Meetup
- Research & Development expansion: Milosz & Sophie
- The future of Capital Markets article
- The future of ESOPs article
- Business Insider coverage
- HitBTC listing
- Bittrex Global expanded trading pairs
- Bancor liquidity pool opens
- Bybit derivatives exchange adds DUSK pairing