Many people are debating which public chain has the fastest TPS, but have you ever thought about—where is the real bottleneck for traditional finance going on-chain?

Honestly, it’s not a performance issue. The real choke point is a three-way dilemma: how to prove compliance to the entire network while protecting business secrets? Transparency, privacy, and compliance—these three seem impossible to have simultaneously.

But Dusk’s technical approach is quite interesting. It uses zero-knowledge proofs combined with a specific consensus mechanism to build on-chain something similar to a "trusted execution environment." Transactions here can be verified as compliant and valid, but the counterparties and specific details are all encrypted and hidden. This could be a real breakthrough for handling sensitive transactions between financial institutions.

To give a more concrete example: why do traditional large-scale trades require private negotiations and pre-matching? It’s because once the information is made public, it could immediately impact market prices. Dusk’s architecture allows such scenarios to be moved on-chain—buyers and sellers can complete transactions under privacy protection, while submitting necessary zero-knowledge proofs of compliance to regulators and clearinghouses. This protects privacy and also meets audit requirements.

This kind of progress is far more impactful than simply stacking throughput. When Dusk turns this capability into a standardized product, it’s essentially establishing a new technical evaluation system for the entire RWA (Real-World Asset) track. In the future, judging whether a chain is suitable for hosting real assets may no longer depend on how fast it is, but on how "trustworthy" and "invisible" it is.

True technological progress sometimes lies exactly in this—not in rushing forward, but in elegantly resolving the most thorny contradictions.