Currently, in the blockchain ecosystem, there are not many solutions that truly cater to institutional finance. The common scenarios are: some chains stubbornly pursue decentralization, while others emphasize data transparency at all costs. However, both share a common Achilles' heel — the inability to balance privacy and regulation. Privacy and compliance are often seen as opposites, but what if these two could be integrated?

Dusk Foundation has this very idea. The problem it aims to solve is very practical: suppose you manage a fund and want to put bonds or fund shares on the chain. The options before you are quite awkward — using a regular chain means data is fully transparent, exposing institutional information completely, which poses huge risks; switching to a privacy chain preserves data confidentiality, but regulators cannot verify compliance. This situation makes on-chain activity for institutions seem like an "impossible triangle."

Dusk's approach is: why not pursue both? Through an auditable privacy infrastructure, ordinary users cannot see sensitive on-chain asset data, but regulators, with proper authorization, can verify compliance. Privacy and compliance are no longer enemies but can coexist.

The project itself is quite active. The mainnet is already live, and the ecosystem fund has invested tens of millions of DUSK to support various on-chain financial applications, from securitization to compliant lending and asset trading protocols, forming a fairly complete layout. The logic behind the DUSK token is also clear: transaction fees, staking rewards, and smart contract execution costs — it’s not a token for idle speculation. Technologically, DuskVM is used to deploy privacy contracts, while DuskEVM ensures fast migration of Ethereum applications. The dual-engine architecture significantly lowers the development threshold. This design allows Dusk to simultaneously meet privacy needs and ecosystem expansion.