Honestly, everyone in this industry knows—burning the midnight oil and going bald is really not a big deal; what’s truly torturous are those self-contradictory requirements.

For example, during a recent requirements review, the product manager threw out a bunch of demands: "Bond tokenization products must protect user privacy, while regulatory audit trails need to be completely transparent and auditable." "Institutional trading strategies cannot be exposed on-chain." "Also, need to adapt to different compliance standards in Europe and Asia, figure it out yourself."

Every time I hear such requirements, my reaction is the same—take a deep breath, open another blank development document. Designing a balance between privacy and compliance from scratch feels like building bricks on quicksand.

It wasn’t until I seriously studied Dusk Network’s architectural approach that I experienced that sense of relief—"I found it."

Dusk doesn’t give you a complete black-box system; instead, it builds a library of professional components that can be assembled freely. Don’t think of it as a single chain—think of it as a financial-grade "Lego factory." Need zero-knowledge proofs to achieve transaction privacy? The privacy computation modules are ready-made. Need to comply with specific regional KYC and anti-money laundering rules? The compliance verification modules have already been refined with the legal team. Want to develop a privacy OTC trading platform or bond issuance system? Just combine these modules, like stacking building blocks.

That’s why I’m so interested in it—it drastically reduces the most feared aspect for developers: trial-and-error costs. The reason innovation in traditional financial applications is so difficult is that every compliance adjustment could mean starting over. But modular solutions allow you to iterate quickly within a relatively safe framework.