Dusk Network, The Bridge Between Public Blockchains and Traditional Finance
Dusk Network is a project that, in my view, sits right in the gap between public blockchains and traditional financial systems.
Dusk was founded in 2018, at a time when the market still treated privacy as a luxury, and very few teams were willing to take the harder route of combining privacy with compliance for real financial assets.
What I’ve consistently noticed is that Dusk does not talk in narratives just for the sake of it, they have tried to make “privacy” a foundational component of the system.
Public blockchains are transparent to the point of exposing sensitive data, while traditional finance is closed, heavily intermediary driven, and difficult for third parties to verify. Dusk targets exactly that problem, building infrastructure where data is protected, yet verifiability still exists so “trust” is not merely a promise.
Looking at execution, they announced the mainnet rollout in late 2024, and the first immutable block was produced on January 7, 2025, following a layered deployment rhythm instead of rushing and burning stages.
In January 2026, when the bridge service faced an incident, they paused the service, implemented blocking for risky addresses on the Web Wallet, and emphasized that this was not a protocol level flaw, a response that feels closer to
financial grade operations than crypto theater.
