Why Institutions Don’t Care About TPS Numbers
Crypto often measures progress in speed. Higher throughput, lower latency, more transactions per second. These metrics matter for retail activity, but they are rarely decisive for institutions.
Institutions care about trust, predictability, and accountability.
In regulated finance, speed is meaningless if settlement cannot be audited, reversed through legal process, or verified by oversight bodies. A system that processes thousands of transactions per second but cannot prove compliance is unusable for serious financial instruments.
This is where many blockchains misunderstand their audience.
Tokenized securities, funds, and real-world assets do not fail because blockchains are too slow. They fail because the infrastructure does not support privacy, compliance, and controlled disclosure at the protocol level.
Institutions need to know who can access what, under which conditions, and with what legal guarantees. They need deterministic execution, clear upgrade paths, and privacy models that don’t leak strategy or positions.
Dusk optimizes for these requirements rather than raw throughput. Its design reflects the reality that regulated markets move deliberately, not impulsively.
Speed excites retail users.
Reliability attracts institutions.
In the long run, infrastructure built for the second group defines where real capital settles.
