Dusk is an interesting project. The most impressive contrast is: it has a very serious goal, yet operates in a market filled with superficiality.

Look at what other projects are doing—fighting for attention, traffic, and storytelling tricks. And Dusk? It’s doing something completely different: making blockchain look more like a real financial system, rather than overturning it.

In other words, it’s not about overthrowing finance, but about integrating into it. That may sound less sexy, but it’s precisely that importance.

Why say that? Returning to the issue of privacy. In the traditional financial world, the logic of privacy isn’t “hide everything,” but “layered management”—your bank knows your asset status, regulators know if you’re compliant, but ordinary street passersby don’t need to know. It’s that simple.

Blockchain is different. The default state is transparency for all. For crypto traders, it doesn’t matter much, but once real assets and real companies are involved, it becomes a big problem.

Dusk’s design approach is actually about solving this structural contradiction: **How to ensure verifiability on-chain while turning privacy into a controllable attribute, rather than a system vulnerability?**

It sounds like a technical issue, right? But in reality, it’s a governance issue.

If you look closely at many of Dusk’s design choices—you’ll find they’re not about chasing “efficiency,” but about “compatibility.” You won’t see it competing for TPS rankings, caring about how low Gas fees are, or boasting about smooth interactions. What it truly cares about is: if a traditional financial institution wants to migrate some business logic on-chain, can it use Dusk?

This way of thinking is indeed rare. The problem is, this rigor also means its growth will be relatively slow.

Because migrating business from traditional finance? That’s not something technology alone can solve; it’s a complex game of politics, law, and trust structures. That also explains why, although Dusk’s mainnet is already stable, the ecosystem development still takes time.