To be honest, many bosses are both excited and hesitant about blockchain. Blockchain is indeed great—transparent ledgers, tamper-proof, trustworthy. But the problem is right in front of us—do you dare to put your company's financial statements, customer lists, and business contracts all on the chain for the world to see? That’s like handing the keys to your house to your competitors.

So the biggest hurdle for enterprises to adopt blockchain is here: without privacy, progress is impossible; without business secrets, it’s a dead end. That’s also why many innovative projects, despite having advanced technology, often struggle to find a practical business application.

Dusk’s approach is different. From the very beginning, it didn’t aim to create a geek paradise but focused directly on enterprise pain points. Simply put, Dusk wants to build a toolkit: enabling companies to enjoy all the benefits of blockchain (security, efficiency, trustworthiness) while keeping their business secrets tightly protected.

The core technology is called the SABER consensus protocol. Don’t be fooled by the name—think of it like this: it’s similar to an encrypted boardroom voting system. How does traditional blockchain verify transactions? Like publicly singing votes in a square, everyone can hear clearly. But with Dusk, the entire verification process is encrypted, and validators are randomly selected, unaware of each other's choices. Yet, they can quickly reach consensus and produce a result everyone trusts. This solution perfectly aligns with the core needs of enterprise collaboration: process confidentiality, transparent and trustworthy results.

Let’s consider a real-world scenario. Several banks want to jointly develop a credit scoring system by sharing debt records to prevent fraud from multiple loans. Using a regular blockchain? That would mean each bank’s customer data is visible to other institutions—privacy is essentially non-existent. With Dusk’s approach, it’s completely different—each bank submits encrypted data, and on-chain, privacy smart contracts perform data computation and analysis. In the end, only a final score is returned. The data itself remains encrypted throughout, the calculation process is invisible to everyone, but the final conclusion is trusted by all. This is truly enterprise-grade blockchain that can be put into practical use.