In 2018, while the entire crypto ecosystem was chasing permissionless open finance, one project from the very beginning regarded compliance and privacy as its core DNA — that is Dusk. Over the years, this chain has quietly become a key infrastructure provider for institutional-grade finance.

To be honest, the problem is quite painful. Traditional financial cards operate within outdated and closed infrastructure, resulting in low efficiency; meanwhile, most public blockchains, although fast and transparent, have compliance frameworks that are essentially nonexistent, and privacy protections are added as an afterthought, making it impossible to accommodate large-scale institutional assets and regulated businesses. Dusk emerged in this gap — aiming to combine the openness and efficiency of blockchain with the strict compliance and privacy requirements of regulators and financial institutions.

Significant effort has been put into its architecture. Dusk employs a modular design — separating consensus, execution, data availability, and privacy layers. The benefits are obvious: on one hand, supporting high-performance transactions and complex financial logic; on the other hand, applications within the ecosystem can flexibly configure components according to their needs, whether it’s privacy levels or audit functionalities, all programmable. This provides real technical support for scenarios like compliant DeFi and Security Token Offerings (STO).

Regarding privacy, Dusk’s approach is different. Many chains add privacy features as an afterthought or external module, but Dusk integrated privacy into the protocol layer from day one. Using cryptographic tools like zero-knowledge proofs, it achieves transaction details being invisible to outsiders while still allowing necessary audits. In other words, institutional trading strategies and position information are protected, and user asset privacy is not exposed — this is true privacy architecture.