DUSK — this can really become such a point, after which you can never go back. You know, once everyone thought that blockchain was total transparency, all transactions in plain sight, and that's what makes it reliable. And now DUSK Network comes and tells us, "How about we make it so that you decide who sees what?" And this is not just a marketing move; the rules of the game are really changing.
Just think to yourself that you are conducting some serious financial operation — tokenization of real estate, corporate bonds, or just a large transfer. In classic Ethereum or Bitcoin, everyone sees the amount, addresses, everything is laid out clearly. Great for verification, but for real business or institutions — it’s a nightmare. DUSK provides selective visibility (that's what they call it, selective visibility or something similar). This means you can show the regulator or auditor that everything is clean, everything is by the rules — but at the same time, neither competitors, nor hackers, nor just the curious will see anything unnecessary. In the short term, the effect is one, in the long term it can be completely different, that's what I think.
How does this work technically? They take zero-knowledge proofs, confidential smart contracts, and all of this is built directly into the protocol. Not some layer two, but out of the box. The transaction goes through, the network verifies it, no one sees anything, but at the same time, there is proof — and the regulator can sleep soundly. For me, this is one of the few projects where privacy does not appear as something rebellious and anarchic, but rather as a tool for serious money.
And here’s what’s interesting. Previously, everyone argued: either complete transparency (and then goodbye, real business), or complete anonymity (and then goodbye, regulators). DUSK actually breaks this dilemma. You don’t have to choose ‘either-or’. You can have both compliance and privacy at the same time. And this seems to be exactly what the big players have been waiting for to finally enter the blockchain for real. For big players, it looks different than for the small ones.
Look at what’s happening now — the year 2026, the token has already surged by over 100% on the wave of interest in privacy tokens. Institutions are slowly waking up, because they realize: without confidentiality, the tokenization of real assets will remain just a pretty pitch at conferences. And with DUSK, you can create tokenized US Treasuries, private markets, automated processes — and at the same time, not expose all data left and right.
Of course, there are risks. The market is volatile, competitors are not sleeping, regulators can come up with new rules at any moment. But something tells me that this very approach — controlled, programmable access to data — is indeed the direction we are all slowly but surely heading.
So if we summarize all this briefly, DUSK is not just another L1. It’s possibly the first network that has shown that blockchain can be both decentralized and suitable for the real world at the same time. And after such a realization, it’s hard to go back to the thought that ‘everything must be visible to everyone’. Because now we know that it can be different. And it seems like we can’t go back, so this is one of those cases where it’s worth just watching.@Dusk #dusk $DUSK
