I have been in this market long enough to learn one thing, in a bull run everyone talks about speed, everyone paints a future, but when liquidity tightens what remains is simple, which infrastructure can actually settle a transaction properly. Dusk was founded in 2018, and the way they chose SBA as their consensus tells me they are not chasing applause, they are trying to operate like financial grade rails, where one wrong step costs trust.
You see many systems brag about their amazing TPS and UX. However, as soon as stress really clicks in, it’s amazing just how fast bugs appear as transactions stall, states become confusing, users freak out, ops people start spamming status updates, and suddenly everyone becomes unsure of what’s real and what’s not. The problem with any system is not when it is a few seconds behind; it is when you are not sure if your transaction is done or stuck in some limbo zone somewhere. Has anyone transferred any valuable assets and wondered? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Dusk chose SBA to pull the system out of that grey zone. For me, finality is not a pretty word, it is the line between operating like a demo and operating like finance. When settlement is fast and unambiguous, everything downstream gets cleaner, apps do not live in endless waiting states, exchanges do not carry long reconciliation risk, wallets do not show half baked confirmations that make users nervous. More importantly, developers can design flows with certainty, they know where the end state is, they know when the next step is safe. Do you want to build products on concrete, or do you want to build on sand.
But I will be direct, picking a mechanism that can settle fast is not the end of the story. This market is full of projects that take one piece of tech and turn it into a slogan, while real operations stay loose. If finality is going to mean anything, the whole system has to be disciplined, upgrade procedures, node monitoring, incident response, and a culture that prioritizes stability over performance theater. When load rises, when nodes drift, when a hard upgrade lands, that is when you find out who built for the long run. Have you ever watched a chain that feels fast, until pressure increases, then congestion starts, halts appear, and the story ends in a few apology posts.
I look at Dusk and see a direction that feels like real infrastructure work, slower, tougher, doing the hard part first. SBA, to me, is a signal that they care about a clean, definitive end state, because in finance ambiguity is risk, and risk burns trust the fastest. You can live with higher fees, you can live with ugly UI, but you cannot live with not knowing whether your transaction is final.
So the question I leave you with is simple, are you picking a network because it sounds good in easy seasons, or because it has the habit of settling cleanly in hard seasons. For me, Dusk choosing SBA is choosing the path of turning speed into certainty, and turning certainty into operational credibility. In this market, credibility is not built by promises, it is built by the times a system stays standing when everything gets hard. Are you betting on a story, or are you betting on discipline.
