Dusk Network Sale Update

Over the last weeks the demand for the Private Sale has exploded, and we have been working around the clock to meet with all prospective buyers and partners to ensure Dusk Network’s support system is as strong as it can be. To help us process hundreds of conversations, we recently announced our fundraising partner The Reserve.

We have received some constructive feedback from our advisors on our current lockup configuration. This configuration could lead to a suboptimal situation in which progressive batches of unlocked tokens potentially lead to unwanted sale pressure. To mitigate this possibility and promote a broader holding horizon, we have decided to remove all bonuses. That way every participant in the private sale will be treated equally, which makes the fundraiser fairer. This also warrants that there will be no inside deals. Confirming our standpoint on this, the exchanges we are in talks with also consider large bonuses as a red flag.

Our commitment to be best-in-class means we will not use bonuses just to “bribe” big names to hop on board. Being fair, transparent, and offering all buyers the same terms is key in today’s blockchain space — and rightly so. This preserves the integrity of the project and ensures that those who purchase DUSK 1) believe in the fundamental value of the project and 2) are with us for the long-haul.

To complement to the points above we, as the Dusk team, truly believe in the project and its long-term vision. To show our commitment, we will extend our lockup period to a 12 month lock up and a 12 month vesting period thereafter.

We have always believed in raising an appropriate amount of capital. We want to be able to optimally build Dusk Network, but also bring a fair proposition to the market. Due to this extreme demand for Dusk and the current configuration with a limited availability of funds, this would lead to a situation in which many value-adding sale participants would be left out while potentially concentrating stakes of Dusk tokens in the hands of few holders, hampering decentralization.

After careful consideration and thorough discussions with our current contributors and advisors, we decided to increase the current hard cap to $14.4M. With this increase we will be able to get more value-adding contributors onboard, have more liquidity, which is more resilient to unforeseen events, and use these additional funds to add more value to the project and its goals. We mean to do this in the following ways:

• Hire more of the world’s leading developers, thus speeding up our present timeline and securing our competitive foothold.
• Further build out our rapidly growing community and increase our capacity to engage with them.
• Design and implement a robust go-to-market strategy using our increased marketing and PR budget.
• Expand our roadmap to include zero knowledge smart contracts.
• Ace the Restricted DevNet launch of Dusk Network at the Next Web on the 14th of December and establish our strong and fair market presence for years to come.
• Accommodate the overwhelming interest and value-add that prospective partners have been bringing to the table.
• Conclude agreements with one of the world’s leading exchanges, who we will now be able to accommodate as a private sale contributor and partner as well as secure a free listing.
• Onboard corporate partnerships that will contribute directly to the utility of DUSK, for example Telcos and financial institutions.

Not only do we believe that raising the cap is the right course of action, but our advisors have also strongly recommended it. Private sale participants that have already contributed capital all voted unanimously in favour of this change. This means that every contributor, individual and entity in the Dusk camp has given full support to this decision.



TL;DR

• No bonuses. Everyone has the same terms.
• Team lock-up period increased.
• Hard cap has been increased to $14.4m for 50% of tokens.
• The Reserve is managing the entire allocation. Email pledge@dusk.network

We would like to take the opportunity now to thank our existing partners and everyone that has expressed an interest in supporting Dusk. The increase in the hard cap will allow more of you to join us on this journey.

Introducing Dusk Network to the public is an important and exciting step in our journey to create the world’s preferred decentralized protocol for payments, communications and value transfer. We are not here to make a quick buck. We are not here to create hype without valid cause. We are here to do things properly. We are here to lead the market into the new dawn of privacy and compliance, of unstoppable value and asset transfer at negligible cost. We are here to stay.

This is why we have been focusing on building our ground-breaking new tech stack over the past 12 months and have only recently opened up the project to outside contributors. Our goal remains the same: to make Dusk the most utilised and beneficial decentralized protocol in existence.

Other news from the Dusk Network:

Increasing our budget allows us to attract more developers across the entire Dusk spectrum. Additionally, we would like to welcome two new members to the Dusk Core team, Toghrul Maharramov (NeoResearch) and Kevaundray Wedderburn (NeoResearch).

Dusk Network has made the following announcements:

Advisors:

• Aylon Morley — Tech Investment Director at Wentworth Hall
• Gary Quin — Credit Suisse, BlackRock Communications
• Richard Sanders — CipherBlade, Energi, FBI
• James Roy Poulter — The Reserve, EY, Playfair Capital

Partners:

• Kryha — Blockchain Development Partner
• The Reserve — Fundraising & Compliance Partner
• TNO — Cryptographic R&D & EU Consortium Partner
• Watson Law — Legal Partner

Here is also a sneak preview of what we will announcing soon:

• Exchange partnerships and listing(s)
• Security Token Offering Incubator
• Team and Advisors
• Partners
• The first companies that will STO using Dusk Network
• Financial institutions looking to integrate Dusk and the XST standard into their marketplaces and portfolios
• Our PR and event campaign for the rest of the year.
• Our EU grants trajectory, which Dusk Network is currently applying for.

How to learn more about Dusk Network
The Dusk Network is a project coordinated by the Dusk Foundation. We are a decentralized ecosystem entirely focused on providing the perfect trade-off between privacy and transparency. Dusk protects privacy and fits regulations in payments, communications and asset transfers.

Please consider joining us at the following media:

• Website
• FAQ
• Telegram
• Twitter
• Reddit
• LinkedIn
• GitHub

Our mainnet launch is scheduled for Q2 2019.

Waves not becoming popular should not have to do anything with Dusk. Dusk Network will be more than just launching STO's because of the anonymity aspect. And for Ethereum; they sort of have monopoly on ICO's but Ethereum also has its problems, mainly scaling. Dusk on the other hand will be used to launch STO's which is completely different than Ethereum. The biggest similarity Dusk has with Ethereum is the token' utility. DUSK functions just as ETH does on their respective platform.

Dusk Network will utilize two kind of nodes;

Network nodes - transactional network clients. They compete with each other by locking an arbitrary amount for the generating and proposing of new blocks. Block generation is a computationally light task and therefore running a node does not require neither specialised equipment nor storage. The intention is for normal mobile devices to be able to run as a node within the network. The non-deterministic nature of the bidding process makes it so that even nodes bidding the minimum amount of DUSK have a fair chance to win the block generation sortition lottery

Provisioners - These are nodes that have committed a certain minimum stake to the Dusk Network and take care of more network intensive tasks such as block verification, voting, and notarization (VVN operations). These types of nodes are non-transactional
The intention is to create an economy where nodes compete for block rewards, while Provisioners earn a steady ROI.

Absolutely!

You can read more aboutt ICO's vs STO's here! And yes, DUSK will start out as an ERC20 tokens until the mainnet launch where the ERC20 equivalent must be swapped to the native DUSK token.

You're correct! The wallet will be used to test the functionality of the network and will be lacking a GUI for now as there's no need for an average user to use the wallet before mainnet launch. A devnet is required to test the core features of the platform before the launch of the testnet/mainnet to make sure the critical sections of the platform are secure and bug-free.

This is definitely a trustworthy review, Jelle explains Dusk in a somewhat easier to understand way.

That's an interesting comparison, although on Ethereum it's possible to launch ICO's while on DUSK we're aiming for the STO's. Launching smart contracts on Dusk Network is something for the future and not our main priority as of now.

Regarding smart contracts on Dusk Network;
"Providing support for smart contracts translates almost directly into adding support for Turing-complete scripting on a blockchain. It is a very daunting task. Smart contract platforms present order of magnitude higher complexity than focused propositions because they need to support unforeseen use cases and need to scale by doing so. This is why smart contract platforms have geological release cycles, need outrageously high investments. We think that focused propositions with limited scripting capabilities are way more agile, especially if they follow the comparability principle of interoperation"

We're trying our best to get the word out, so far the responses have been overwhelmingly positive!

That's correct! more information can be found in the following Medium article; https://blog.goodaudience.com/the-startup-dream-icos-vs-sto-s-f065fe803597

That's correct, Monero is mainly used for payments while we will offer much more! Dusk network is a network and as such has a very sharp focus on confidential data transmission. This means unidirectional atomic transaction (transfer of value), bidirectional atomic transactions (purchase of asset - you give money and receive an asset in return) and bidirectional time-unbound transactions (basically streaming, audiovisual calls and conferencing, etc)

Our FAQ can be checked here: https://dusk.network/faq/

Thank you very much, will change that!

Our token will function just as Ethereum does on the Ethereum blockchain and is a utility token.

The reason for this is that the private sale is conducted privately. People who are interested can contact pledge@dusk.network. The details will be disclosed to those who are interested.

The tokens allocated to the team = 6.4% of the total supply.
The tokens allocated to the advisors = 6.4% of the total supply.

Our token can be compared to the function of Ethereum on the Ethereum blockchain.

There are no huge bonusses and of course the team and advisors will not receive any bonus, their allocation is 12.8% of the total supply.

The amount of tokens allocated to the team and advisors is 12.8% of the total supply.