Most public blockchains optimize for openness and composability. Anyone can deploy anything, combine protocols freely, and experiment without constraints. This model works well for DeFi innovation, but it breaks down when real financial workflows are involved.
@Dusk is intentionally not trying to fit into this composable DeFi paradigm. Regulated settlement requires different guarantees: confidentiality of sensitive data, deterministic execution, and outcomes that can be verified without exposing internal details. These requirements impose constraints that are incompatible with fully permissionless experimentation.
By embedding selective privacy and verifiability at the protocol level, DUSK prioritizes correctness and auditability over unrestricted composability. This means fewer surprises, fewer edge cases, and fewer situations where compliance depends on application-layer assumptions.
The result is a network that may appear slower or more conservative, but is significantly more usable for real institutions. DUSK trades optional freedom for enforced guarantees and a necessary compromise for regulated environments where mistakes are costly and irreversible.
This is not a limitation. It is a design choice aligned with the realities of financial infrastructure.
DUSK is not optimizing for experimentation at any cost. It is optimizing for environments where privacy, verification, and compliance must hold every time, even when experimentation slows down.
