The longer you stay in this crypto world, the more you can feel what "perseverance" truly means. Dusk is such an alternative — since its establishment in 2018, it has been cultivating in a single track for eight years, which has long been a world of change in the crypto circle.

Do you remember the crazy times back then? The entire public chain track was competing on performance, with each trying to outdo the other in TPS and throughput, showcasing various digital feats. But Dusk did not follow the trend; instead, it chose an obscure path — betting on "financial compliance + privacy," and building a Layer 1 underlying chain. This move seemed audacious at the time, but looking back now, it has become its greatest moat.

Speaking of its core competitiveness, it’s worth mentioning the modular architecture design. Many people get confused when they hear "modular," but it’s actually quite simple: breaking down various blockchain functions into separate modules, like building blocks — consensus, privacy, auditing — all become independent modules. Financial applications can assemble what they need without being locked into a single architecture framework.

This is a real boon for institutional-grade applications. Traditional financial institutions have diverse needs — some want to do cross-border payments, some plan to tokenize assets, and others require compliant trading. Modular design allows them to quickly adapt to their business logic without spending huge amounts to overhaul the underlying infrastructure from scratch, significantly reducing costs.

Even more impressive is Dusk’s balance between privacy and auditing. In crypto finance, privacy is never synonymous with "complete invisibility," especially when dealing with traditional financial institutions and regulators. Excessive anonymity can only lead to rejection. Dusk has understood this from the start; its technical design can protect users’ transaction privacy and asset information while still presenting a complete transaction audit trail within regulatory frameworks. This ability to achieve both is exactly what traditional finance needs most when migrating to blockchain.

Persevering in a niche track for eight years, maintaining clarity amid the noise of performance competitions, and relentlessly pursuing financial compliance — such determination is rare. As blockchain increasingly evolves toward institutionalization and systematization, those seemingly "non-mainstream" choices made by Dusk early on have instead become the most needed capabilities in the market.