Long-term observers of privacy public chain ecosystems may have noticed an interesting phenomenon: the Dusk project almost always chooses a path opposite to the popular market trend at every critical decision point.

While everyone is competing over TPS, engaging in public chain battles, and pursuing rapid ecosystem explosion, it instead invests all its energy into privacy compliance, financial-grade applications, and stable engineering iterations. In the short term, this may not seem "sexy" enough, but upon closer reflection, these seemingly disadvantageous decisions are precisely the key to building its moat.

Many people, upon first encountering this project, instinctively want to categorize it as a "privacy track." But if you delve into its protocol design logic, you'll find that it is actually solving a completely different problem. This problem is the real challenge—how to protect business secrets from leakage while on the chain of financial assets like securities, funds, bonds, and bills, and simultaneously meet regulatory, auditing, and legal accountability requirements?

This is a question that almost no public chain dares to face directly.

The reason is simple: it inherently requires balancing three conflicting goals—privacy, compliance, and auditability. Most projects choose two: either strictly defend privacy at the expense of compliance, or insist on compliance sacrificing privacy, or emphasize auditability and default to full transparency.

But this project’s approach is different. It directly binds these three originally conflicting requirements into an inseparable whole at the protocol layer. This is not just adding a zero-knowledge module on a transparent ledger, but a deeper architectural restructuring.