Privacy is not a consideration in many blockchains. Due to this reason, privacy is frequently provided afterward with the help of some additional tools, side systems, or complicated workarounds. This tends to complicate the process of building applications as well as the process of trusting them.
Dusk has an alternative method. Privacy is in the foundations, so smart contracts can interact with private data immediately. This is not a technicality, as it alters what developers are safe to construct.
In the case of native privacy, developers do not have to coerce users to share all their financial backgrounds to perform any interaction with a contract. It can still enforce rules, check conditions and do logic, but without the exposure of sensitive information to the populace.
Example:
A lending app can frequently display the amount of collateral, loan size and risk of a user on a transparent blockchain. Anyone may spy on them and take action upon that information. The contract can still secure a proper backing to the loan even in a privacy-native setting such as Dusk, yet strangers do not have the chance to monitor the financial performance of a person in real-time.
This makes it possible to have applications that are far more akin to real financial systems, including private trading, confidential lending, and compliant issuance of assets. Dusk is an example of a privacy-first smart contract stack that avoids patchwork and provides a more robust base to serious use cases by developing its own stack.
