Dusk Network is not another blockchain. It is one of the ones out there. This is especially true now in 2026. Dusk Network is doing something cool with real-world assets. They are making it possible to turn these assets into tokens. This is a deal because it makes finance work better with rules and laws. Dusk Network is really good at this. They are one of the leaders, in this area. Dusk Network is doing a job with this.
Here is what really sets Dusk apart: Dusk does not go all the way with total anonymity like some privacy coins and Dusk does not make everything public either. Instead Dusk focuses on privacy for
$DUSK . The whole idea of Dusk from the start was to help markets and institutions such as people who need to follow all the rules of MiCA and MiFID II but who also need to keep sensitive business information private, for Dusk. That’s the balance Dusk strikes, and honestly, not many projects do it like this.
The Heart of Dusk — Segregated Byzantine Agreement (SBA)
Dusk uses something called Segregated Byzantine Agreement or SBA for short. Dusks Segregated Byzantine Agreement is their version of Proof-of-Stake. The Segregated Byzantine Agreement that Dusk uses goes for something called finality. This means that once a few steps are taken with Dusks Segregated Byzantine Agreement you can be very sure that the chain will not fork. Dusks Segregated Byzantine Agreement is an improvement, over the usual Proof-of-Stake approach. The usual Proof-of-Stake approach always leaves some doubt. Dusks Segregated Byzantine Agreement does not.
SBA splits people into two groups, and it keeps them strictly apart. First, you’ve got the Generators. They’re the ones who come up with new blocks—think of them as the leaders or proposers you see in classic BFT systems. Then there are the Provisioners. Their job is to check and finalize those blocks, just like voters or attesters.
Dusk does a job of keeping things safe by separating these roles. This really cuts down the ways that bad people might try to mess with the system. You see, of having one big group that does all the work Dusk has two separate teams, each with their own task. Dusk makes the system safer by doing this. The two teams that Dusk has are each responsible, for their job.
Now picking a leader is where things get really interesting. The Dusk method uses something called Proof-of-Blind Bid or PoBB for short. I think Dusks Proof-of-Blind Bid is one of the ways to choose a leader. It is also very good, for keeping things private. I really like the way Dusks Proof-of-Blind Bid works.
Here is the basic idea of how PoBB works:
Each participant sends in a bid that includes a things:
A Pedersen-style commitment is, like a promise that shows how stake they are putting in. This is made up of a number, which we will call v and a blinding factor, which we will call b. These two things are combined into something called c, which is calculated using the formula c = C(v, b). The Pedersen-style commitment is important because it helps to keep the stake private. The number v and the blinding factor b are used to create the commitment c.
A Poseidon hash of a secret (just, secretHash = H(secret))The secret code itself which is connected to their address the stealth address is what we are talking about the encrypted secret itself and the stealth address.The heights at which the bid is valid and the heights, at the bid expiration timeTheir stealth address, which is a pair (R, pk)
All these bids get put into something called a Merkle tree, which is also known as the bidTree. This is where the bidTree really does its thing, with all the bids. The bidTree is pretty important because it handles all the bids.
Here’s how it works. For each round and step, if you know the opening (that’s v and b) and the secret, you can figure out your score on your own. If your score hits or beats a certain threshold—which changes every epoch, depending on λ, the expected number of leaders per slot—you’re a leader for that slot.
When that happens you say loud your score, your seed and a Plonk proof. The Plonk proof is, like a math score. It shows that you did the math correctly. You are not telling anyone your secret number v or the secret itself. You are showing that you have a Plonk proof. We can also call the Plonk proof the π_score. The π_score proves that you did the math right. You are using the Plonk proof to show that you did the math correctly with your score and your seed and the Plonk proof.
This whole process is really simple. The process does what the process has to do without anyone telling the process what to do. The process is based on stake weights. One thing, about the process is that it is very hard to guess what is going to happen with the process. Nobody gets to know the secret of the process until the end when the secret of the process is finally revealed. The process also uses something called zero-knowledge proofs to help the process.
The bidding process is private. Nobody knows what anyone else is bidding on. This is the case unless the person who is bidding the bidder actually wins the auction. Then the bidder has to prove that they won the bidding process for the auction. This means the bidder has to show that they really did win the auction. The bidding process is private. That is why nobody knows what anyone else is bidding on for the auction.
If someone has than a third of the control in the system and they try to be in charge of everything like always being the leader or stopping others they will not get what they want.
The system is made so that this person cannot win.
This is true even before people start making decisions.
The person with than a third of the control in the system will fail because the system is made to stop this kind of thing from happening.
The system is designed to prevent the person with, than a third of the control from getting what they want.
Now, about finality—how blocks get confirmed for good. After someone proposes a block, there’s a two-step Reduction phase (borrowed from TABA84 but with some key differences), then an Agreement phase that runs asynchronously.
Reduction is a way to take a lot of results and turn them into a simple decision that is either yes or no. This is called an agreement. It uses something called BLS threshold signatures to make this decision.
When you use reduction the people, in charge called provisioners are divided into groups. These groups are formed in a way using VRF sortition.
To vote you need a lot of people to agree, more, than two-thirds of the committees stake. If the committee does not get votes on time the committee will move to the next step or the committee will run out of time.
The whitepaper explains the math in terms: as long as more than two thirds of the people who have a stake in each role are honest the chance of a problem with the system like a fork is very low. This is the case when you look at a round from the moment a block is proposed to the end when it goes through two reduction steps and an agreement. The chance of a fork drops low often lower, than 2 to the power of negative 40. This depends on how big the committee's what λ is. The whitepaper is talking about the whitepaper and the math it presents the math related to the whitepaper.
That’s statistical finality. It’s stronger than theThe thing about proof-of-stake chains is that they have a finality that is based on probability. This means that proof-of-stake chains have a kind of finality. But with this probabilistic finality proof-of-stake chains are still open to everyone so they stay permissionless. This is a deal, for proof-of-stake chains because it means that anyone can use them.
Privacy-Preserving Transactions — Phoenix & Zedger
When it gets dark Dusk brings two ways of doing business to the table and these two transaction models really work well with each other the Dusk transaction models are a team.
Phoenix is built on a system that uses something called UTXO. This system uses proofs called zero-knowledge proofs to keep your transfers private.
You can move your assets between modes. Some are transparent some are hidden and some are completely secret.
The Phoenix system uses things like Schnorr proofs and commitments and nullifiers to keep your transactions private.
This means that it hides the links between your transactions it protects how money you have and it stops people from spending the same money twice.
What is really cool about Phoenix is that you can use the money you get from things, like staking rewards without having to tell everyone about it.
Most systems that use zero-knowledge proofs cannot do this.
Phoenix and its use of zero-knowledge proofs is what makes it special.
Zedger is a system. It is also known as Hedger in some new documents. The Zedger system combines two ways of doing things: the UTXO model and the account-based model. This is mostly used for security tokens.
The Zedger system uses something called a Sparse Merkle Segment Tree, which's a way to keep track of multiple balances for each segment. This includes things like the balance the transactional balance, the voting balance and the dividend balance.
Zedger makes sure that all the rules are followed, like one account per user and it has a list of approved users. It also makes sure that the people receiving something have approved it and it keeps a record of all the balances. Zedger even tracks the lifecycle of something.
The Zedger system can also handle something called Confidential Security Contracts, which are also known as XSC. This means that Zedger can handle securities that can be programmed. The Zedger system is very useful, for security tokens. It helps to keep everything private and secure.
When you put these things together you can move bonds and equities and funds around in a private way. At the time people, like regulators or auditors can still look at things when they need to check on tokenized bonds and equities and funds.
There’s more under the hood, too.
Rusk VM is a WebAssembly-based virtual machine that’s gas-metered and plays nicely with zero-knowledge proofs. Kadcast handles efficient message spreading with its structured gossip overlay. And native Genesis Contracts take care of core features like staking, rewards, slashing, DUSK transfers, and moving assets between transparent and shielded layers.
2025–2026 Milestones & Why It Matters Now
The mainnet goes live in early 2025, wrapping up almost six years of research and development. That’s a huge stretch—one of the longest, most intentional builds you’ll find for any Layer-1 project.
Here’s what’s on deck for 2025 and 2026:
DuskEVM launches, and it’s Solidity-compatible, so you can bring over Ethereum tools without the usual headaches.
Zedger rolls out completely, opening the door for institutions to issue real-world assets.
They’re teaming up with regulated venues like NPEX and 21X.
$DUSK holders get hyperstaking rewards.
They’re building MiCA-aligned infrastructure, which means on-chain trading of real, regulated securities is actually happening.
Thing is, regulators want KYC, AML, audits, and transparency. Traders and issuers? They want privacy—nobody wants their strategy or holdings out in the open. Dusk’s approach strikes a rare balance. You get compliance where it counts, but you don’t have to give up confidentiality.
If you care about real RWA infrastructure, or you’re serious about privacy-first, regulated DeFi, Dusk is worth a long, hard look.
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