Transaction speed and finality are critical for financial markets. You cannot have a stock exchange where a trade takes 10 minutes to "finalize." This is why @Dusk developed its own consensus mechanism called "Succinct Attestation."
Succinct Attestation is a privacy-oriented Proof-of-Stake model that allows the #Dusk network to achieve near-instant settlement. Unlike Bitcoin’s "probabilistic" finality, where you have to wait for several blocks, $DUSK transactions are final as soon as they are included in a block. This makes $DUSK the ideal platform for tokenized securities and high-frequency trading. Furthermore, the consensus is designed to be lightweight, allowing a wide range of participants to run nodes and secure the network. This keeps $DUSK decentralized while providing the performance of a centralized exchange.