In the blockchain ecosystem, compatibility with EVM seems to have become the standard. But Dusk Network goes against the grain by choosing to develop its own virtual machine—Piecrust VM.

This might sound like reinventing the wheel, but it's not. For high-frequency, privacy-focused financial transactions, traditional EVM simply can't handle the load. So they took matters into their own hands and built their own engine.

**First Weapon: Native Zero-Knowledge Support**

Running zero-knowledge proofs on EVM is both costly and inefficient. Piecrust, from the architectural level, has deeply optimized ZK integration, with a design that is friendly to zero-knowledge proofs at its core. The result? Privacy transactions on Dusk are as fast and cost-effective as regular transfers. This is the true privacy transaction experience.

**Second Advantage: Memory Safety Isolation**

When dealing with financial assets, security is always the top priority. Piecrust adopts an almost extreme memory isolation strategy. If a contract has a bug, it cannot affect other contracts or the node itself. This is why institutions are willing to put hundreds of millions of assets on the platform.

**Third Point: Finality upon Transaction**

On Dusk, there’s no need for secondary confirmations or chain reorganizations—the block, once generated, is final. This is especially critical for securities tokenization. Imagine your recently sold stock becoming invalid due to a blockchain fork—that would be a nightmare. Piecrust’s instant finality completely eliminates this risk.

In short, Dusk isn’t betting on the general-purpose blockchain race. They are building a chain tailored specifically for compliant finance, and Piecrust VM is the technical core of this ambition.