In the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain, it's easy to fall into a obsession—chasing faster transaction speeds, cheaper fees, and more dazzling technology. It seems that as long as the tools are advanced enough, we can directly break through the gates of traditional finance. But reality is much colder.

Real institutional funds, real large-scale capital, operate on a completely different logic. They don't ask "how awesome is this technology," but rather "is it compliant, can risks be managed, and who is responsible if something goes wrong." This is the difference between institutional rationality and tool rationality.

Although the traditional financial system is slow, why has it maintained a monopoly for so long? Not because of advanced technology, but because it has built an entire trust network—regulation, auditing, legal accountability. Maintaining this network is costly, but it is precisely this cost that creates barriers.

Most public blockchains try to bypass these constraints without truly understanding the core issue. To truly shake up the financial landscape, it's not about providing faster tools, but about reshaping that institutional trust with code—using technical means to reduce compliance costs.

Dusk's approach lies here. It doesn't simply treat privacy, auditing, and access as add-on features, but integrates them directly at the protocol level. Zero-knowledge proofs provide privacy protection, while the optional selective disclosure mechanism meets auditing needs; confidential transactions protect trade secrets, and verifiable execution logs ensure compliance and traceability. This is akin to using cryptography and distributed ledger language to re-implement the logical framework of traditional finance—only this time, without intermediaries, resulting in even higher efficiency.

This is the true disruption of blockchain to finance. It's not about how much faster it is, but about how the cost of institutional trust is completely rewritten through technology.