When it comes to privacy chains, many people's first thoughts are about anonymity and untraceability, and subconsciously they see it as something that opposes regulation. But the DUSK project takes a completely opposite approach.

It’s not about hiding everything, but rather thinking from a different perspective: under the premise of meeting compliance requirements, which information must be visible to everyone, and which should not be fully disclosed at all? This is a very pragmatic question.

DUSK’s real strength does not lie in ordinary transfer transactions, but in on-chain issuance and trading of securities and regulated financial products. These kinds of assets inherently have a contradiction — the ledger needs to be verifiable, but the specific transaction details involve commercial privacy. It’s either all exposed or completely hidden, and neither extreme is acceptable.

DUSK’s solution is to use zero-knowledge proof technology to split this problem — the system can verify whether the rules are being followed, but the specific transaction data is restricted to a minimal scope. In other words, compliance verification still occurs, but information leakage is controlled.

This approach is actually designed based on the practical logic of traditional finance. In the real world, regulators, auditors, and trading counterparts do not see the same information. DUSK embeds this layered visibility mechanism into the protocol in advance, allowing rules to run automatically on the chain instead of explaining them afterward.

Because the goal is clear enough, DUSK’s choices in consensus mechanisms, security, and token design are very rational. It’s not rushing to generate short-term hype, but focusing more on system stability and whether financial institutions can use this long-term. This path may be slow, but if on-chain finance truly wants to accommodate real-world asset flows, this kind of prudent infrastructure is actually more trustworthy.