The compliance RWA track welcomes new players in 2026. Dusk, a Layer1 project that started cultivating since 2018, has two recent major moves worth attention.

First, DuskTrade. It collaborates with the licensed Dutch exchange NPEX to bring tokenized securities exceeding 300 million euros on-chain. This isn't concept hype — it's real scale with actual capital, and practical trading infrastructure. Looking at current RWA track demands, compliant trading entry points have always been the bottleneck. This time, they've created a benchmark product.

On the technical side, DuskEVM mainnet is set to launch in the second week of January, meaning Solidity developers can directly deploy smart contracts with Layer1 settlement at the base layer and EVM ecosystem compatibility on top. In other words, you no longer need to learn entirely new development languages for compliance — existing toolchains work directly. Adding Hedger's zero-knowledge proof technology, transaction data is both private and auditable. This combination punch was designed for regulatory scenarios, with an alpha version already released.

From an ecosystem perspective, Dusk has backing through collaboration with Chainlink, and the modular architecture provides expansion space. RWA has indeed been a hot track these past two years, but there aren't many projects that can truly bridge compliance and technical implementation. Speaking of participants emerging in this track, Dusk's combination definitely has something interesting.