The Dusk advantage is how much friction they remove by simply doing things different than everyone else. Dusk makes blockchain usable at the boundaries of the most complex regulated markets. This is part of why we believe RWAs present larger long term opportunities than the Total Value Locked (TVL) of DeFi. Real world markets want legal certainty, privacy, accountability, and not constant experimentation. Dusk was built to provide regulation-first infrastructure to allow private and auditable asset issuance and settlement. This inherently gives users access to private, compliant, real world assets. It gives institutions compliant on-chain payment rails. Dusk is different from the other general-purpose Layer Ones (L1s) and Layer Twos (L2s) on Ethereum that try to add compliance as an afterthought through compliance middleware. Other L1s and L2s use compliance middleware. Dusk is the first to use native selective disclosure and compliance at the protocol level, which converts regulatory friction to settlement frequency and RWAs (Real World Assets) sustaining staking demand. This is a deliberate tradeoff with fewer use cases but a greater level of trust and increased switching costs. Adoption will take time and patience as institutions, targeted jurisdictions, and permissioned ecosystems move slow. As RWAs move on-chain and (increase) at scale, the networks built to outlast regulation will best survive.
