I’m looking at Dusk as an attempt to bridge traditional finance and blockchain without forcing either side to break its own rules. Most public blockchains are transparent by default, which works for experimentation but not for regulated financial activity. Dusk starts from the opposite direction.
The network is designed as a Layer 1 for privacy-focused and regulated use cases. Its modular structure is meant to support financial applications that need confidentiality, structured access, and clear audit paths. Instead of choosing between privacy or compliance, they’re trying to support both through selective disclosure and verifiable records.
In practice, this makes sense for tokenized real-world assets, compliant DeFi, and institutional workflows where data exposure has legal consequences. Builders can design systems where users, institutions, and regulators all see what they’re supposed to see — no more, no less.
Long term, they’re aiming to be infrastructure rather than hype: a foundation chain that financial products can rely on when moving regulated assets and processes on-chain. That’s why I’m watching it closely.