Segregated Byzantine Agreement (SBA) is @Dusk Network’s custom consensus mechanism designed to support privacy-preserving and compliant financial applications. Unlike traditional consensus models that process all transaction data publicly, SBA separates transaction validation from data disclosure. Validators reach agreement on transaction correctness and state updates without needing access to sensitive transaction details, which remain encrypted. This segregation allows #dusk to achieve confidentiality by default while still maintaining strong security guarantees against Byzantine faults. By reducing the amount of data validators must process and expose, SBA improves scalability, efficiency, and regulatory compatibility, making it suitable for institutional use cases such as private asset issuance, compliant DeFi, and real-world asset tokenization.
