Founder of Dusk. On a mission to bring RWA to all wallets in a Regulated And Decentralized Finance powered by ZK cryptography. @duskfoundation
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Emanuele Francioni retweeted
T-Minus 90 is a builder program for Dusk that @tminus_dusk and I are running together. Over 90 days, we help 3 builders take a dApp from idea to mainnet.
We've both shipped on Dusk. Tminus built @sozu_dusk, I built Dusk Domains. So the mentoring comes from people who've been through it, from the first contract to the mainnet deploy.
The deal
You get a Claude Team seat for 3 months, a weekly call with both of us, product reviews along the way and a security review before you go live. You also get shoutouts from my X account, help with the mainnet deployment costs and a private Discord with the other builders.
In return, you build in public, with an open-source repo and a short weekly update. Your proof of concept needs to work on testnet by December 1st. If it doesn't, your seat goes to the next person on the waitlist. The dApp needs to be live on mainnet by February 1st.
You fully own what you build. We don't take equity.
Who we're looking for
What matters most to us is distribution. Who is going to use your dApp and why will they use it? ZK and privacy, AI or agentic use cases are a plus, but the proof of concept on testnet needs to work first. The ZK or AI parts can come later.
Applying takes about 5 minutes. If you're not picked, you're on the waitlist.
Timeline
Oct 23, 2026 applications open
Oct 30, 2026 applications close
Nov 1, 2026 3 builders picked, kickoff, Discord opens
Dec 1, 2026 testnet PoC check
Feb 1, 2027 mainnet launch, then a retro
Apply below 👇
Emanuele Francioni retweeted
.dusk domains are now tradeable.
Dusk Domains got a full redesign plus a marketplace. Fixed-price listings, auctions and offers. Names and DUSK stay in on-chain escrow until the trade settles.
Live on testnet: dusk.domains/
Emanuele Francioni retweeted
KYC is good for humanity and also super secure and also has never lead to anything bad happening and also can’t possibly be exploited in any way
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Emanuele Francioni retweeted
Really appreciate the spotlight 🩵
It’s been a lot of fun building on Dusk. Huge thanks to the team and the community — excited to keep building.
Meet Piecrust, a Dusk community builder behind five applications and seven AI model repositories.
@ruskvm’s work spans a DEX, two wallets, a block explorer and a .dusk web resolver.
Here’s what he built 👇
Emanuele Francioni retweeted
We have designated gravity as a Very Large Force and water and air as Very Large Matters under the Living Stuff Act.
They now have four months to comply with additional LSA obligations.
We have designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act.
They now have four months to comply with additional DSA obligations.
More: link.europa.eu/8bmk3M
#DSA
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In a sudden twist of events, I will from now on watermark all my prompts to Anthropic by adding “cock!” at the end of each sentence
Emanuele Francioni retweeted
This is exactly why Anthropic pisses me off.
You can keep saying the watermark doesn’t change ownership, doesn’t identify the user, doesn’t affect quality, doesn’t add hidden characters, and won’t look any different to readers. Fine. But that is not the whole issue. The issue is that you are still marking work that a human being may have thought through, structured, argued, and emotionally meant, just because AI helped process it.
AI assistance is not authorship. If I wrote the idea, the argument, the meaning, the emotional core, and the final judgment, then it is my work. If Claude helped translate it, polish a sentence, or make it clearer, that does not suddenly make Claude the author. But a watermark absolutely changes how people perceive authorship. People are not going to say, “Claude may have been involved in processing this text.” They are going to say, “AI wrote this.”
And honestly, who the hell are you to do that to my writing? Who gave you the right to stamp your model’s involvement onto work that came from my thoughts, my experience, my voice, and my judgment? You can say it does not change ownership all you want, but socially, reputationally, and creatively, it absolutely changes how the work is read.
So fine. Do whatever you want. Build your watermarking system. Follow whatever framework you want. I’m not using Claude. Good luck.
We’ve written an FAQ to answer some of the questions we've received about watermarking.
In summary:
• We’re implementing watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act. Other major model developers have signed the same Code of Practice and will also be implementing watermarking;
• Our watermarking method doesn’t have any practical impact on the quality or content of Claude’s outputs;
• The difference between watermarked and un-watermarked text will not be distinguishable to readers;
• Nothing is added to the text and there are no hidden characters;
• Watermarking doesn’t require extra tokens, and will not be more expensive;
• Watermarks can’t be traced to a specific person, organization, or chat.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-te…
Emanuele Francioni retweeted
🚀 The $Dusk Intern strikes again!
$TDI & #duskdualprice oracle freshly deployed on duskEVM testnet. Including a shiny new LP on Pieswap 🍰
Charts glowing, blobs humming, Intern caffeinated.
Go try the LP & break things (gently) 💜⚙️
#duskEVM #TheDuskIntern @pieswap_dusk
Emanuele Francioni retweeted
One of the unexpected benefits of AI?
Being able to apply knowledge from different, specialised areas to what you're working on.
Here, @Autholykos from @DuskFoundation, tells us how he found software inspiration in biology.
🎧 podbean.com/ep/pb-6qjuf-1b22…
If Qwen3.8-27B improves even modestly over the 3.6 version, self-sovereign intelligence starts to become an affordable possibility
📢Meet Qwen3.8-Max — our most capable model to date.
Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights to meet you all!🎉
Qwen3.8-Max, a new bar for coding and cowork at 2.4T parameters:
- Autonomous coding: 10+ days of self-evolving development, from empty folder to production without hand-holding, complete project trace in the GitHub：github.com/qwen-code-dev-bot…
- Real work, real results: Production-quality deliverables across hundreds of professions.
- Long-horizon mastery: System-level autonomous planning with closed-loop adaptive learning, driving 500+ turns of chip design optimization and 365 days of e-commerce strategy.
- Native multimodal intelligence: Vision isn't just input — it's a continuous feedback loop for planning, execution, and self-correction.
💰Pricing:
Input: $2.0 / M tokens
Output: $6.0 / M tokens
Implicit Caching: $0.25 / M tokens
Start building with Qwen3.8-Max! 🚀
📖 Blog: qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8
✅ Qwen Studio: chat.qwen.ai/?models=qwen3.8…
⚡ API: qwencloud.com/models/qwen3.8…
Emanuele Francioni retweeted
New @cyphertalkmedia podcast episode is live! Can privacy and regulation actually work together?
Emanuele Francioni (@autholykos) co-founder of @DuskFoundation, joins @pumpkinGMI and @beyer_st to discuss:
-> privacy-preserving finance
-> securing a privacy chain
-> the AI arms race in security
-> and why your next software idea might come from biology
Emanuele Francioni retweeted
🎙️ New episode: Emanuele Francioni (@autholykos) on privacy, regulation, and the AI arms race.
After a run of security episodes, this one turns to privacy. Emanuele is co-founder and CEO of @DuskFoundation, a blockchain built for privacy and institutional finance.
Ma peffà che?
Currently I'm using on 3 projects:
- Cursor + Grok 4.5
- Kimi CLI with Kimi K3
- Codex with GPT 5.6 Sol
- Hermes with GLM 5.2, MiniMax M3 and others
- Claude with Fable for some complex reviews
OpenCode and omp on other projects too.
It seems impossible, but I'm starting to experience a new kind of flow, where I talk with each agent, swap between them, let them interact with each other through me... And I feel lost in this status for hours.
And at the end? I get an incredible amount of work done! Including very complex one. WOW!
Initially I was feeling exhausted by this, but now, week after week I start to feel this more natural, it's becoming the new norm.
Isn't this happening to you too anon?
