General-purpose blockchains pride themselves on flexibility. One chain, infinite use cases.
But flexibility comes with trade-offs.
When a blockchain is designed to support everything — NFTs, games, memes, DeFi, DAOs — it inevitably optimizes for none of them fully. Performance bottlenecks, privacy leaks, and governance complexity are the price paid for universality.
Dusk Network rejects this model entirely.
Rather than becoming another multi-purpose platform, Dusk commits to a single domain: regulated financial applications. That decision shapes every technical and economic choice in the protocol.
Privacy isn’t added through smart contract tricks.
Compliance isn’t bolted on as an afterthought.
Finality isn’t probabilistic guesswork.
By building a purpose-specific Layer 1, Dusk controls the entire stack — from consensus to transaction structure — allowing it to meet requirements that generalized chains cannot.
This doesn’t make Dusk more popular.
It makes it more useful to the people who actually move capital.
History shows that infrastructure wins not by being everything, but by being indispensable to someone. Dusk’s bet is that finance — real finance — needs a blockchain built specifically for it.