【Preface: Written in the Cold Wind of 'X Ocean X Fishing'】
In these past few days, not only is the market cold, but people's hearts are even colder.
I believe the news has spread throughout your groups: X region, interprovincial, big players, headcount, assets confiscated.
Those 'whale addresses' we usually envy on the chain have turned into summons and detention orders in the real world. Many people haven't committed any crimes; they have simply become precise targets because their assets are too large and 'transparent.'
I am Ember. Today, I don’t want to talk about candlestick charts or technical indicators. I want to talk about 'survival.'
We always emphasize that 'the private key equals ownership', but in the face of the enforcement of the physical world, it is simply a joke.
When a transparent public chain displays your balance to the whole world and big data associates your IP with your wallet address, you have already turned on a powerful spotlight in this dark forest and shouted, 'I am here, I have money, come catch me.'
If you don’t want to become the next 'disappeared' ID, please patiently read this in-depth discussion about Dusk ($DUSK). This could be the most important logic for safeguarding your life and assets in the next 5 years.
[Chapter One: Transparency is no longer a virtue, but a curse]
The biggest lie of Web3 is: Transparency is absolutely correct.
In Europe and America, transparency may mean fairness; but in our particular context, transparency = nakedness = danger.
If you transfer using Bitcoin or Ethereum, every path of your funds is publicly traceable.
When you cash out your U at an exchange, risk control is watching you.
When you transfer coins to a friend, on-chain data analytics companies (Chainalysis) are watching you.
Once a certain associated address of yours is marked as 'suspected in case X' (often a fabricated charge), your entire asset chain will be frozen.
The value of Dusk at this moment is not just a public chain, but a **'survival shelter'.
Dusk does not provide tools for you to commit crimes, but rather protects ordinary people from the right of 'excessive scrutiny'. On the Dusk network, you do not need to broadcast your balance to the entire network.
You are no longer that naked target.
[Chapter Two: How does Dusk protect you?]
Many people ask: Can I also use a mixer (Tornado Cash)?
No! That is asking for death.
Using a mixer is like sticking the words 'I have problems' on your forehead. Because mixer addresses are on the blacklist, once you are involved, centralized exchanges (CEX) will freeze your account, and regulators will directly classify you as money laundering.
The brilliance of Dusk lies in its approach of 'provable compliant privacy'.
Through zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), Dusk has constructed a trading environment like this:
To outsiders: Your transfer amount, recipient, and balance are all "Private" (just like we see in browser screenshots). Those who want to mess with you don't even know how much money you have.
For compliant exports: If you need to withdraw funds or face a normal audit, you can use your private key to generate a proof that your money is clean.
What does this mean? It means that in the Dusk ecosystem, you have the security of **'not being arbitrarily spied on'**, while also retaining the path to 'return to the normal financial world'.
Isn't this what we need the most right now?
In this time of paranoia, Dusk is the only solution that allows you to live with dignity and hold wealth with respect.
[Chapter Three: Cut that tracking line]
All 'head-banging' incidents arise from 'link tracking'.
They followed the line and found the melon.
In Dusk's technical architecture, utilizing the native privacy computing power of Piecrust VM, this line has been cut.
When you move your assets across the chain bridge (for example, after integrating Chainlink CCIP) into the Dusk network, it is like diving into the deep sea. In the deep sea, sonar (on-chain analysis tools) fails. The circulation of your funds within Dusk, DeFi yields, and RWA investments are all silent.
When you need to, you can resurface. But what happens during this time, aside from yourself, even the gods cannot predict.
Cutting off the link is cutting off the risk.
We are not teaching you to evade the law; we are teaching you how to wear armor on your soft spots in this complex world.
(To be continued... The second part will delve into Citadel identity protection and the ultimate destination of assets.)