Current blockchain ecosystems actually don't have many solutions truly designed for institutional finance. The common scenario is: some chains are obsessed with decentralization, others emphasize data transparency obsessively, but both share a fatal flaw——they can't balance privacy and regulation. Privacy and compliance are often seen as opposing forces, but what if you could merge these two together?

Dusk Foundation thinks exactly this way. The problem it's solving is very practical: suppose you're managing a fund and want to put bonds or fund shares on-chain. The choices facing you are awkward——use a normal chain and all data is completely transparent, institutional information is exposed, risks are enormous; turn to a privacy chain instead, data is protected, but regulators have no way to verify compliance. This situation turns institutional on-chain adoption into an "impossible triangle."

Dusk's approach is: why can't you have both? Through auditable privacy infrastructure, ordinary users can't see sensitive data of on-chain assets, but regulators can verify compliance status after receiving authorization. Privacy and compliance are no longer enemies, but can coexist.

The project itself is making significant moves. The mainnet is already running, the ecosystem fund has invested tens of millions of DUSK to support various on-chain financial applications, from securitization to compliant lending to asset trading protocols, the layout is quite comprehensive. The DUSK token logic is also clear: transaction fees, staking rewards, smart contract execution costs——not the kind of empty-running token. On the technical layer, DuskVM is used to deploy privacy contracts, while DuskEVM ensures Ethereum applications can migrate quickly, the dual-engine architecture significantly lowers the barrier for developers. This design allows Dusk to simultaneously support privacy requirements and ecosystem expansion.