A quiet reason institutions avoid on-chain systems is reputational risk.
On public ledgers, even compliant actions can be misread. Partial data turns into speculation, speculation turns into headlines, and suddenly teams are defending decisions that were never wrong in the first place. The fear is not failure. The fear is being misunderstood at scale.
Traditional finance manages reputation through context and controlled disclosure. Information is released with explanation, not scraped live from raw activity. When blockchains remove that context, institutions become cautious, slow, and defensive.
@Dusk is built to restore context. Privacy protects routine operations, while auditability ensures facts can be shown clearly when scrutiny arrives. When reputation is no longer hostage to raw visibility, institutions can act with confidence instead of fear.
