The RWA competition in 2026 has long moved beyond just PPT presentations. Projects boasting trillion-dollar prospects are everywhere, but truly capable of mobilizing institutional funds always rely on a complete closed-loop system—full licensing, genuine assets, regulatory backing, and real-world implementation.

DuskEVM mainnet launched strongly in January, and this chain’s ambitions are significant. It took six years from project inception to launch, with a very smooth transition from testnet to production environment. On the surface, it appears to be a technical iteration, but in reality, it opens a direct fast lane connecting privacy and compliance protocols to the Ethereum ecosystem. Developers can write code in Solidity, and existing DeFi and RWA protocols can be migrated seamlessly without changing underlying logic. Over on Ethereum, millions of developers suddenly realize: finally, there’s a chain that can both protect privacy and enable us to create truly compliant financial products.

The core of the technical layer is the Hedger Privacy Engine (currently in Alpha testing). This system combines zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption, making transaction volumes and position data completely invisible to outsiders, locking institutional trading strategies tightly. When regulators need to audit, permissions are enabled, and data becomes instantly readable—finally balancing privacy and transparency. This logic aligns with the requirements of the EU’s MiCA and MiFID II regulations.

Ecosystem development is also accelerating. European asset management firms and Wall Street have been waiting for something like this—both privacy protection and compliance within regulatory frameworks. It used to be a trade-off between the two, but now they can finally have both.